Twenty-two local Thai culinary herbs and spices normally used for cooking were screened for their antioxidant properties by using FRAP, DPPH and TBARS assays. Four ethanolic extracts, i.e., holy basil, Vietnamese coriander, turmeric and green peppercorn, having high antioxidant properties were selected for freeze-drying and used in the pork meatball batter. The batter of pork meatball was prepa...

Narrow-bandwidth light treatments may be used to manipulate plant growth, development and metabolism. In this report LED-based light treatments were used to affect yield and metabolic content of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L. cv "Ceasar") grown in controlled environments. This culinary herb produces an aroma highly appreciated by consumers, primarily composed of terpenes/terpenoids, phenylpro...

BACKGROUND Although loss of loved ones is a universal experience, individuals who experience this loss grieve in different ways. Complicated grief involves the development of trauma symptoms, such as flashbacks, anxiety, and fear associated with daily activities after a death that disrupts the healthy grieving process. Daily activities such as eating, meal planning, grocery shopping, managing f...

New cultural techniques have been developed to improve the yield and raw material quality at harvest, enhance postharvest shelf life, by standardizing growing system. Among different Soilless Cultivation Systems, Growing System (NGS®) is a closed-recirculating system that was designed for open fields protected cultivations. The aim of this work investigate structural setting its functioning har...

Domestic production of culinary herbs continues to increase in the United States. Culinary are primarily propagated by seed; however, some have poor germination rates and slow growth. Thus, there advantages propagating vegetative stem-tip cuttings as they lead true-to-type plants a shortened time. Previous research ornamental young finished shown reduction rooting time increases plant quality w...

This paper describes the detailed anatomy and micromorphology of the vegetative parts of Piper sarmentosum Roxb. (synonym, P. lolot C.DC.), which is a southeast Asian medicinal plant valued for its medicinal and culinary uses. The study also compares the anatomy of the leaf, petiole, stem and root of P. sarmentosum with those of the well-characterized P. betle L. The leaves of both the species ...

Parsley is a biennial aromatic plant from the Apiaceae family, which characterized by an unbranched root, pinnately divided leaves, umbels and schizocarp. It contains essential oil in all parts, with phenylpropane terpene compounds as main components. rich flavonoids other polyphenolic compounds, containing furanocoumarins, carotenoids, polyacetylenes, its leaves are source of vitamins minerals...