As food and nutrition occupy an increasingly important place on the web, dishes and recipes shared online provide an invaluable mirror into culinary cultures and attitudes around the world. More specifically, ingredients, flavors, and nutrition information become strong signals of the taste preferences of individuals and civilizations. However, there is little understanding of these palate vari...

Kampo formulations comprise a number of crude natural drugs/herbs as constituents. The crude drugs/herbs have been traditionally classified by their traditional classifications or efficacies in Kampo medicines; however, it has been difficult to establish the scientific link between experimental evidence and traditional classifications in Kampo medicine. To clarify such traditional conceptions, ...

Sweet basil is one of the most popular culinary, medicinal, and fragrance herbs in Mediterranean, Asian, Western countries. This study aims to increase growth performance sweet via different concentrations chitosan, which applied at three stages. The was arranged a factorial randomized complete block design with four replications. plants were divided into stages, vegetative stage (S1), reproduc...

Many herbs have been used as therapeutics in Korean traditional medicine. In view of their clinical indications, anti-oxidant activity may contribute to their pharmacological effects. However, anti-oxidant information on these plants has not been available. In this study, seventy herbs which have been used in Korean traditional medicine were selected and screened for anti-oxidant activity using...