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...

Evidence on dietary risk factors for ovarian cancer is inconsistent, but some studies have suggested positive associations with dietary fat, lactose, and cholesterol and negative associations with green and yellow vegetable intake. By using information from the Iowa Women's Health Study, the authors investigated the association of epithelial ovarian cancer with dietary factors in a prospective ...

Studies were conducted to compare six inoculation methods for preliminary screening of potential fungal biocontrol agents for leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula). The six inoculation methods included 1) applying spore suspensions to surface-disinfested, detached leaves of leafy spurge in petri dishes; 2) applying spore suspensions to untreated, detached leaves of leafy spurge in petri dishes; 3) app...

Abstract Unlike field crops where the cultural practices of raising seed are mostly similar to commercial crops, in case vegetables, not only grown for a much longer duration than raised vegetable purpose, they often also have critical requirements photoperiods, temperatures, humidity and precipitation. Moreover, compared most seeds considered high value low volume, hence these require specific...

ABSTRACT Lettuce is the most cultivated leafy salad vegetable in Colombia, being municipality of Madrid, Department Cundinamarca, second largest producer. In this region, lettuce plants with foliar symptoms characterized by brown necrotic spots forming an extended area, chlorosis, leaf distortion and plant stunting have been detected, possibly caused a viral infection associated Orthotospovirus...

In general, most of green leafy vegetables undergo a cooking process prior to consumption. This present study was carried out investigate the effect moist heat treatments vegetable, Talinum portulacifolium on total phenolic content and antioxidant potential using phosphomolybdenum reduction, DPPH, ABTS radical scavenging activities. The phenol tannin contents were found maximum in raw samples p...