As a component of drinks, food, cosmetics, and spice, hops yields plethora biologically active compounds. This plant, which was valued by gods kings through the history, may serve as basis for pharmaceutical exploitation: not only healthy folk medicine but also in search effective sedative, estrogenic, antimicro­bial, antidiabetic, cancerostatic compounds.
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Consumers increasingly prefer and seek food beverages, which, due to their natural characteristics, bring health benefits, both in the prevention of diseases curative power. In this way, production nutraceutical foods beverages gains more importance market. On other hand, because eyes also eat, producing attractive color, texture, appearance, sensory characteristics is a permanent challenge ind...

Green tea and apple are natural products with health benefits. These healthy properties are linked closely to the antioxidant compounds, mainly phenolic compounds. These antioxidant compounds have a potential for preventing and treating cancer, cardiovascular, inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases in humans. The aim of the present work was to design a new beverage with high antioxidant po...

Organic pigmented Thai rice and wild rice are commonly available in specialized Italian markets and food shops, and they are gaining popularity among consumers demanding healthy foods. Indeed, the typical colour of kernels, which is the unique characteristic of pigmented cereals, is due to the accumulation of pigments that are also responsible for a number of healthy effects. The aim of this st...

BACKGROUND Non-invasive phenotyping of chronic respiratory diseases would be highly beneficial in the personalised medicine of the future. Volatile organic compounds can be measured in the exhaled breath and may be produced or altered by disease processes. We investigated whether distinct patterns of these compounds were present in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and clinically rel...