Reaching the second UN Sustainable Development Goal requires improving nutritional value of food products and dietary diversity. Simultaneously, recent research highlights importance processing highly nutritious but underutilized African leafy vegetables (ALV) for lowering post-harvest losses bridging off-season gaps. Combining both goals, it seems promising to utilize neglected ALV enhancing c...

Nitrosamine is derived from nitrate and it seems as one of the factors and causes of gastrointestinal cancer in adults and Methemoglobinemia (blue baby syndrome). Eighty percent of nitrate enters to the body through vegetables and fruits, so in this study nitrate concentration in available vegetables and fruits at Shiraz was determined and compared with standard limit. At first, Shiraz city was...

Konowalchu, J. et al. Concentration of enteric viruses from water with lettuce extract.

Present studies show that nitrate accumulation is the major factor influencing the water uptake by vegetables, but there is lack of knowledge on how the relationship between nitrate and water concentrations in different vegetable tissues. We determined nitrate accumulation and water content in vegetables of rape, Chinese cabbage, and spinach under different nitrogen levels (experiment I), 29 sp...

Six administrative regions of Senegal were investigated. Forty species of vegetable leaves which are traditionally consumed in Senegal have been inventoried. All species are members of twenty-one families the most numerous of which are Amaranthaceae Juss., Malvaceae Juss., Moraceae Link., the Papilionaceae Giseke and Tiliaceae Juss. The species are subdivided into three groups: cultivated leafy...

Residues of Dimethoate present in locally available Spinach varities Palak : Beta maritima, Vendhai : Trigonella foenumgraecum, Thandan : Amarnathus mangostanus green and red were determined. The quantification was carried out using RP-HPLC for unprocessed (fresh) and processed (washed, washed and cooked) Spinach samples. The extraction was carried out with benzene. It was found that unprocesse...

Vegetables are rich sources of vitamins, minerals, and fibers, and have beneficial antioxidative effects. Ingestion of vegetables containing pesticides is one of the main routes through which these enter the human body. Slowly released into the body, however, pesticides can cause an array of diseases. In this study we investigated the concentrations of some pesticides in the most frequently con...