Groundnut and Melon husks (shell) were collected from the market side in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State and milled into powder for proximate and anti-nutritional analysis. The results of proximate analysis showed that groundnut shell contained moisture content, ash content, crude fibre, lipid, crude protein, carbohydrate, oxalate, phytate, cyanogenic glycosides and trypsin inhibitor are 8.0%, ...

This paper reports the results of flavonoids determination expressed in rutin from marine algae. For this purpose, rutin and rutin AlCl3 complexes were spectrophotometrically studied in three domains of ligand concentrations: ligand Crut=1.34-6.7mg/L, 4-20mg/L and 2-32mg/L. The precision, accuracy, specificity, and the quantification limit of the method were verified. The calibration curve trac...

The proximate, phytochemicals, minerals, and anti-nutritional content of Ficus thonningii seed obtained from Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, Nigeria were investigated. proximate analysis revealed that the is abundant in ash (8.36 ± 0.77 %), protein (27.52 0.17 %) carbohydrate (40.02%) but contains low moisture (8.76 0.06 fibre (2.81 0.09 %). minerals showed very high quantities Ca (2067.50mg/100g), P...

The aim of this study was to compare the content of carotenoids in seventeen cultivars of carrots grown in Poland. Conventional orange cultivars with rarely grown were compared: white, yellow and purple with yellow core cultivars. To determine the content of carotenoids, extracts from lyophilized carrot roots were prepared and analyzed by spectrophotometric as well as HPLC methods with DAD dete...

abstract experiment was conducted for 8 weeks to determine the reaction (astacus leptodactylus) to interaction energy and salinity. diets containing 3 levels of energy (300,370 and 450 kcal/100g) with a constant protein content of 30% and 2 levels of salinity (fresh water and brackish water (12 ppt) were formulated. tank content 110 liter, each filled with 80 liter water. 5 a.leptodactylus (ave...

Protein-energy malnutrition is increasing among children in developing countries due to low nutrient density of traditional complementary diets. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the protein quality of a complementary food produced from cooking banana fruits and bambara groundnut seeds. The cooking banana and bambara groundnut seeds are locally available in both urban and villages mark...

The consumption of phytochemicals such as carotenoids and polyphenols within whole fruits and vegetables has been associated with decreased incidence of various inflammation and oxidative stress related chronic diseases, which may be due to direct antioxidant effects, or indirect mechanisms such as affecting signal transduction/gene expression. Within the present study, we investigated the anti...

A pimenta Capsicum spp. é uma especiaria utilizada de diversas formas na alimentação, in natura ou industrializada, e em várias culturas gastronômicas. O rico perfil bioativo propriedade antioxidante atribuídos as pimentas destaca a espécie annuum var. “jalapenho” por apresentar características sensoriais nutricionais que favorecem seu consumo processamento industrial. Este trabalho teve como o...

BACKGROUND Vitamin analyses are particularly important for estimating dietary intakes, determining nutritional status and regulating food labelling. Due to the increased popularity of ethnic foods, the vitamin composition of these foods is required to ensure that national food databases are up-to-date. OBJECTIVES The key objective of this study was to generate new and reliable data on the con...

Hypertension afflicts 25% of the general population and over 50% of the elderly. In the present work, arterial spin labeling MRI was used to non-invasively quantify regional cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebrovascular resistance and CO(2) reactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and in normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY), at two different ages (3 months and 10 months) and under the e...