The aim of this study was to develop a simpler and cheaper technique using a combination of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) fermentation and protease hydrolysis to accelerate the production of bioactive peptides in peanut meal. Firstly, peanut meal was fermented with a total of 14 LAB strains to assay in vitro Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity and Degree of Hydrolysis (DH). A...

BACKGROUND Although the genetic basis of androgenic alopecia has been clearly established, little is known about its non-genetic causes, such as environmental and lifestyle factors. OBJECTIVE This study investigated blood and urine heavy metals concentrations, environmental exposure factors, personal behaviors, dietary intakes and the genotypes of related susceptibility genes in patients with...

The use of cacao, in its familiar food and beverage form, dates back about 3,800 years. By the time of the discovery of America by Europeans, the Aztecs and Mayans had developed methods for drying, roasting and grinding cacao beans for use in beverages and foods. Today, the same processes are used, but have been adapted to modern machinery. The current study was conducted to compare the traditi...

BACKGROUND Women with ovarian cancer who experience disease progression during or within 6 months of first-line treatment with platinum-based anticancer drugs are considered to have platinum-resistant tumors. These patients have an unfavorable prognosis, and they frequently seek complementary and alternative therapies (CAM). Historically, this represents an understudied and underreported compon...

The objective of the present work is to compare some different crop products such as protein isolates and defatted whole flours from legumes, as chickpea and soy bean, involved in the molded compression processing to obtain plastics. The present work analysed the possibility of forming new plastic materials with products of chickpea, and soy bean seeds typically from the North West of Argentina...

Isoflavones are thought to have an important role in the prevention of hormonerelated diseases. This study was undertaken to identify the profile of urinary isoflavone metabolites collected within 24 h after the consumption of unfermented or fermented soy foods. The proportions of b-glycosides and aglycones to total isoflavone intake were much higher in soybean paste than soy flour. Twenty urin...

Soymilk is fermented with probiotic lactobacilli (Lactobacillus rhamnosus NCDC 19, 24 and cheese isolates: L. rhamnosus C2, C6 and L. casei NCDC 17, 297) @1.0% for 24 h at 37oC. We find that in fermented soymilk both the inhibition of ascorbate autoxidation, and the reducing activity of polyphenol content and increasing of proteolysis varied with the starters used, but nevertheless are signific...

The effect of feeding velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens L.) meal on the performance and lipid profile in broilers was investigated. Fourteen days old 200 broiler chicks were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments in a completely randomized design and feeding was continued for four weeks. Maize and soybean meal based control feed, and four test diets produced from the control feed by incorpora...