Background: Raw (fresh) vegetables are an important ingredient of healthy diet. Many enteric bacterial, parasitic and viral pathogens could be transmitted by vegetables. Mazandaran province is located in northern Iran with a coastal area and extensive fields for vegetable cultivation. The current study is designed to evaluate the parasitic contamination of fresh vegetables. Methods: A total...

background: high intake of nitrite and nitrate may threat human health. fruits and leafy vegetables are the major source of these chemicals in our diet. there are limited studies on nitrite and nitrate content of fruits and vegetables in iranian and we need to conduct more research on daily-consumed foods. this study aimed to determine nitrite and nitrate contents of distributed fruits and vege...

This review of the medical literature from 1994 to 2003 summarizes the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and cancer risk and examines whether they may affect cancer risk differently. Twenty-eight studies examined the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and risk for various cancers. Twenty-one studies assessed raw, but not cooked, vegetables and cancer risk. The majority ...

In the conditions of Tashkent and Samarkand provinces Uzbekistan, autumn moth ( Agrotis segetum Den. Et Sshiff ) is one most common pests in irrigated agricultural areas. The worms this pest damage hundreds crops belonging to 34 families infect cotton, alfalfa, sugar beet, corn, cereals, legumes, oilseeds vegetables, melons potatoes, as well ivy, wild coconut, sorghum, oats. Autumn nocturnal pi...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most popular vegetables in many regions of the world. Pulses are important sources of protein for vegetarian population. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) commonly known as gram is an important pulse crop. In Tunisia, the cultivated area and production have significant instability and decrease, the chickpea crop was affected by biotic and abiotic constrai...

There are many potential risks to human health from heavy metal contamination of vegetables resulting from wastewater irrigated sites. This study was carried out to assess the concentration of chromium (Cr) and the risk to human health by chromium through the intake of locally grown vegetables collected from wastewater irrigated agricultural fields. Twenty-seven samples of 9 (nine) different ty...

objective: in recent years, farmers have shown great interest to using native drill planter rather than complex planters to grow vegetables. methods: in this study, we tested a native planter independent variables were the two types of substrate surface (asphalt and plowed field), three ground speed (3, 5 and 7 kph) and four types of seeds (tomatoes, onions, radishes and lettuce). dependent var...

The efficacy of clean fallow, bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) as a rotational crop, and fenamiphos for control of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita race 1) and soilborne fungi in okra (Hibiscus esculentus), snapbean (Phaseolus vulgaris), and pepper (Capsicum annuum) production was evaluated in field tests from 1993 to 1995. Numbers of M. incognita in the soil and root-gall indices were ...

Carrot (Daucus carota L.) belongs to the group of common edible vegetables. The aim of the present study was to establish the distribution of guaiacol peroxidases in carrot root sections as well as to determine the enzymatic activity and the electrophoretic pattern of isoperoxidases in tissue extracts of particular root regions: central cylinder, inner cortex and epidermis, including the periph...

There are plenty of antioxidant substances present in plants parts such as fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs and the free radical scavenging molecules present in them are in the form of Phenolic compounds (phenolic acids, flavonoids, quinones, coumarins, lignans, tannins), Nitrogen compounds (alkaloids, amines), Vitamins, Terpenoids (carotenoids) and some other endogenous metabolites. Therape...