The stability of the saponifiable and unsaponifiable fractions of avocado oil, under a drastic heating treatment, was studied and compared to that of olive oil. Avocado and olive oil were characterised and compared at time 0h and after different times of heating process (180°C). PUFA/SFA (0.61 at t=0) and ω-6/ω-3 (14.05 at t=0) were higher in avocado oil than in olive oil during the whole exper...

Fruits and vegetables are considered as good source of functional foods due to their health benefits nutritional content. Dietary constituents fruits vegetable commonly available has significant application in management chronic diseases such as; coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer diabetes, many medicinal purposes, control excess weight obesity high fiber content present. Many phenolic comp...

Centella asiatica (L.) Urban is commonly used for curative rationale and food relevance. In the present study, certain morphological, physiological and biochemical parameters of in vivo and in vitro raised plants were compared. In vitro grown plant exhibited high level of chlorophyll (1.360 g/ fresh wt.), increased leaf area (2.5-3.5× 3.9-6.6 cm), low amount of phytic acid (2 mg/100mg), low asc...

sults showed that birds supplemented with 1.5%SO and 3%SO had significantly (P<0.05) higher levels of n-3 (25.27, 50.62 mg/100g) than control group (5.65 mg/100g) into breasts. With regard to leg/thigh the higher incorporations of EPA and DHA were obtained with 1.5%SO (20.68,24.64 mg/100g) and 3%SO (49.17,43.37). The n-6/n-3 ratios obtained in each treatment were: breast 16.4, 4.7, 3.1, 1.8 and...

Dioclea reflexa seeds belonging to the family called Fabaceae were evaluated for its oil content and fatty acid composition chemical composition. Proximate results indicated that D. reflexa seeds contained ash (9.17±0.01%), crude fat (10.65±0.01%), fiber (9.25±0.03%), moisture (13.30±0.01%), crude protein (26.00±0.43%), carbohydrate (31.63±0.12%) and calorific value (1372.07 KJ/100g. Minerals a...

To determine the effectiveness of the methanolic Momordica charantia seed extract dosage and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) to develop a potential male contraceptive. Methods: The extract of M. charantia seeds is done every day for 8 weeks of 50 mg/100 kg body weight of rats. DMPA dose is 0.625 mg/100 g BW of rat intramuscularly and given once on the first day of treatment after the f...

Flavonoid contents as aglycones (for quercetin, kaempherol, isorhamnetin, luteolin and apigenin) were reported for 115 edible plants (91 species). Plant materials mostly originated in tropical zones were grown and harvested from AVRDC, Taiwan. Acid extraction and HPLC were used as analytical methods. Total flavonoid contents ranged from 0 to 254 mg/100g fresh weight. About 75% of samples were f...