Background: Anecdotal information has suggested that sodium benzoate is used with more than permissible doses during production steps of food products especially pickles and pickled cucumbers in food producing factories in Markazi province and other food producing factories . The present study was done to evaluate factual concentration of sodium benzoate in these products. Methods: In this ...

Without the addition of preservative compounds cucumbers acidified with 150 mM acetic acid with pH adjusted to 3.5 typically undergo fermentation by lactic acid bacteria. Fumaric acid (20 mM) inhibited growth of Lactobacillus plantarum and the lactic acid bacteria present on fresh cucumbers, but spoilage then occurred due to growth of fermentative yeasts, which produced ethanol in the cucumbers...

1. Stress-relaxation tests and creep tests were performed on the bodywall dermis of two sea cucumbers, Actinopyga echinites (Jager) and Holothuria leucospilota Brandt. 2. These viscoelastic connective tissues had mechanical properties which agreed well with those of a four-element mechanical model composed of two Maxwell elements connected in parallel. 3. The elastic stiffness of the dermis of ...

Freeze drying (FD) yields the best quality of dried sea cucumber but at the cost of long drying time and also the overall cost. Air drying (AD) gives an unacceptably poor quality product. To achieve faster drying along with a high quality product a microwave freeze drying (MFD) technique was developed to dry sea cucumbers. The relationship between corona discharge and microwave power at various...

in this study, the extract of sea cucumber species, holothuria leucospilota was extracted and its effect studied on the chemical quality rainbow trout fillets packed in vacuum. sea cucumber was extracted using methanol and various concentrations (0, 5/0, 1 and 2%) were prepared. salmon fillets after soaking in the extracts were vacuum packed, chemical tests every 4 days included total volatile ...

The results of a limited number of studies on echinoderms provide evidence for the presence of a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase system in representatives of three classes of the phylum Echinodermata: the asteroids (sea stars), holothuroids (sea cucumbers) and echinoids (sea urchins). The monooxygenase system has been demonstrated to be involved in the metabolism of xenobiotic compounds, but is a...

The responses of sea cucumbers to salinity changes are reflected in the expression profiles multiple genes and microRNAs. miR-2008 Pleckstrin Homology Domain Containing A3 (PLEKHA3) were previously shown be involved cucumbers. To better understand relationship between PLEKHA3, PLEKHA3 predicted interaction was investigated using luciferase reporter assays gene knockdowns. Dual-luciferase analys...

Background: Sea cucumbers have number of one a pharmacological effects counting anticancer, anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and wound healing. Biological properties therapeutic benefits can be connected to the presence wide cluster bioactive compounds particularly triterpene glycosides (saponins). Aims: The present study aimed explore hepatoprotective nephroprotective activity cu...