Phytochemicals in plants, vegetables and fruits have been reported to prevent oxidative stress related diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, cataracts, brain and immune-system dysfunction and inflammation. Many plant phenolic flavonoids have been shown to have antioxidant activity. In our study, the polyphenolic content and the radical scavenging activity of a number of Thai fruit e...

Mango (Mangifera indica L.), also called "the king of fruits", is one of the most popular fruits in tropical regions. Pulp and peel samples of mango cultivars were analyzed to estimate total phenolic, total flavonoid and total anthocyanin contents. Phenolic acids, hydrophilic peroxyl radical scavenging capacity (hydro-PSC) and oxygen radical scavenging capacity (ORAC) in vitro were also determi...

This paper presents a method of detecting overlapping mango fruits from the complex background image. This research uses image that is obtained from a digital camera. This method is based on pre-processing the input image using the texture analysis to determine the boundary of each overlapping fruits. The image is processed to determine the actual boundary, converted to binary images, and utili...

Traditional approaches for solving global optimization problems generally rely on a single algorithm. The algorithm may be hybrid or applied in parallel. Contrary to traditional approaches, this paper proposes to form teams of algorithms to tackle global optimization problems. Each algorithm is embodied and ran by a software agent. Agents exist in a multiagent system and communicate over our pr...

The greater consciousness awakened in recent years on healthy and organic has led to increase “natural” products demand worldwide. The quality and high content on bioactive compounds have consolidated their penetration in cosmetic and food market, showing great potential within the pharmaceutical sector too. For this reason, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors have been forced to develop ...

This paper identifies factors affecting design and management of contract arrangements in mango value chain using data from survey of 83 contractors involved in mango production and marketing in Uttar Pradesh, India. Contract partners’ responses on various aspects of contractual arrangements such as contract structure and negotiation process were recorded with the help of a structured questionn...

MAGICdb is a unique database that integrates the morphological, fruit quality and the marker data of most popular and widely cultivated commercially important mango cultivars. The main objective of MAGICdb is to provide the end users with an integrated dataset of each mango variety cultivated widely in Tamil Nadu. MAGICdb structure is categorized in to three domains namely Morphological Data Se...

The study aimed on evaluating the feasibility of NIRS to predict sweetness and acidity of intact mango fruit in form of soluble solids content (SSC) and titratable acidity (TA) through calibration modeling. Diffuse reflectance spectra in NIR wavelength range of 1000 – 2500 nm were acquired for a total of 58 mango samples. PCR and PLSR were used to develop SCC or TA prediction models respectivel...

a assuming optimal use of tagged instructions taddcc tsubcc other tag tests total instructionsa CecilComp 90,978 18,921 339,713 19,063,103 CecilInt 14,329 7,314 69,507 14,420,873 DeltaBlue 30,725 16,517 194,005 5,236,611 Mango 82,388 44,062 407,302 28,537,483 PrimMaker 85,040 16,539 261,769 25,742,677 Richards 69,767 61,853 397,965 17,500,114 Typeinf 45,956 22,182 218,912 13,259,725 UI1 54,687 ...

There is an increasing demand for fibre rich food and food ingredients. In this study, pumpkin pulp, unripe banana pulp, unripe mango pulp and peel which are high in dietary fibre were processed into flour and substituted at 5% level for wheat flour in a composite flour crackers formulation. The control crackers comprised of 100% wheat flour. Sensory evaluation was conducted using a 9-point hed...