Background Kiwi fruit is a common food allergen and severe allergic reactions are observed. The current diagnostic accuracy is poor with a reported diagnostic sensitivity of 65% in a large European cohort. Recently, two new kiwi allergens were registered, both being storage proteins and both isolated from kiwi seeds. Storage proteins are often linked to severe clinical reactions in other food a...

In the time of globalization many of the tropical fruits can be find at the markets of Europe and North America. Most customers are not familiar with the nutritional and proliferative values of these fruits. Therefore, a less known snake fruit was compared with better known kiwi fruit, using fluorometry, FT-IR spectroscopy, several radical scavenging and proliferative assays and statistical eva...

the aim of this research was to use osmosis-ultrasound compound pre-treatment and studying the time of drying and the potentiality to rehydration in dried samples of kiwi fruit (hayvard variety). the samples were drained in three timed phases, 10, 20 and 30 minutes in room temperature in 30, 50 and 70 bx in ultrasound bath osmosis solutions. the results of drying time showed that by decreasing ...

unblinded manner. Six to ten hours after consumption of kiwi she reproducibly developed an itchy rash consisting of confluent 3–5 mm purpuric macules and papules on the legs, lower trunk and forearms with consecutive bleeding in the central part of the lesions. Oral provocations with apple, banana and pineapple were negative. Western Blot analysis of a kiwi fruit extract with the patient’s seru...

regarding to economical importance of kiwi fruit, its wastes such as highly ripe or partially dried up fruits can be used to produce more economically valuable products like fruit leather. therefore, the aim of present study was the effective factor evaluation of kiwi fruit leather production. the samples were studied in two groups, raw and cooked fruits which were treated in a boiling water ba...

abstract the assessment of ripeness is a major part of quality evaluation and depends on several factors such as soluble solid content (ssc), acidity and firmness. most of the methods that measure these qualities are destructive. so it is essential to develop an efficient and nondestructive method for measuring internal attributes of fruit. the objective of this study was to investigate visible...

Allrgic reaction to natural rubber latex have increased during past 10 years especially among health worker and patients with high exposure to latex allergen. Latex allergy is associsted with clinical or serological cross reactivity to plant derived food allergcn especially tropical fruit for example avocado bannana chestnut kiwi papaya potato and peaches. In this study on health worker among 5...

Kiwi fruit (Actinidia chinensis Planch.) seeds, present as a by-product in the food and pharmaceutical industries, remain underutilized. In this study the extraction conditions for the maximum recovery of total phenolic content (TPC) with high DPPH scavenging capacities (DPPHsc) were analyzed for kiwi fruit seed polyphenols (KSP) by response surface methodology. The optimal conditions for the h...

Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is a common hypersensitivity reaction characterized by recurrent, well-circumscribed, erythematous patches that arise at the same site as a result of systemic drug exposure. However, fixed food eruption (FFE), a lesion triggered by food ingestion, is a rare allergy that was first defined in 1996. Based on their anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, the fruit a...