Recently, natural products have been evaluated as sources of antimicrobial agents with efficacies against a variety of microorganisms. This study described the antibacterial and antifungal activities of pomegranate peel extract (rind), seed extract, juice and whole fruit on the selected bacteria and fungi. The peel extract has shown highest antimicrobial activity compared to other extracts. Amo...

Essential oils obtained from certain plants have repellent potency against insects such as mosquitoes. Most repellents on the market synthetic formulation of N, N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET) main active ingredient. This study is an attempt to contribute search for effective plant-extracted essential oil, Neem and Orange alternative DEET. The oil Citrus sinensis (sweet orange) peels was ext...

This study was carried out to determine the effects of supplementing different levels (0, 0.5 and 1% of buffered rumen fluid) of methanolic extract of pomegranate peel, on rumen fermentation kinetics of four oil seed meals (soybean meal, cotton seed meal, rapeseed meal and sunflower seed meal), using in vitro gas production technique. The samples were incubated in syringes containing rumen liqu...

is added to grapefruit pulp the pulp acts as a bland filler and makes an apple pie. If peach is added it makes a peach pie. Citric acid, sugar and peel oil give excellent orange, grapefruit and tangerine jams. A little' peel oil, sunset yellow, No. 6 and sugar makes a good ice cream mix. Add more sugar and you have a good sundae topping. Cake fillings were made from the jams but they gave troub...

Lipases are biocatalysts that may have distinct biochemical characteristics depending on the source. The combination of lipases from different sources with complementary is a viable strategy for increasing enzymatic activity. In this study, fungal (Aspergillus niger 01 - CBMAI 2084) and plant (orange frit – orange peel fragment) were analyzed separately together in concentrations. addition, we ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Many plant polysaccharides exhibit hypoglycaemic effect. Though the fruit of Psidium guajava is known to contain free sugars, the fruit extract showed hypoglycaemic effect in alloxan treated mice and human subjects. The present study was aimed to determine the glycaemic potential of P. guajava fruit peel extract on blood glucose level (BGL) of normal and streptozotocinind...

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) has high economic value and in recent years, its production has increased; however, part of the fruit is wasted. Usually, inedible parts such as peel and seeds are discarded during processing and consumption. Extracts of melon residues were prepared and their phenolic compounds, antioxidants and antiproliferative activities were evaluated. Total phenolic compounds were f...

Three Moroccan citrus peels, such as orange, lemon, and bigarade, were chosen to extract the pectin using Box Behnken Design. At a temperature of 90 °C, pH = 1.5, extraction time 120 min, high yield was recorded with 28.57, 26.86, 26.55% for lemon (LPP), bigarade (BPP), orange (OPP) peel pectins respectively. The extracted have less branched linear structure GalA contents BPP (86.0 mol%), LPP (...