There has been very limited information on the capacities of tropical fruits to inhibit human cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) activity. Thus, the inhibitory effects of tropical fruits on midazolam 1'-hydroxylase activity of CYP3A in human liver microsomes were evaluated. Eight tropical fruits such as common papaw, dragon fruit, kiwi fruit, mango, passion fruit, pomegranate, rambutan, and star fruit ...

Fruit seed oils are of new interest due to their significant properties and can be a good opportunity recover fruit waste. Actinidia arguta (baby kiwi) fruits novelty in the market berries consumed with peels. Due limited shelf life, very perishable waste management techniques used post-harvest an important issue. Berry reused, for biological flows focused on food losses reduction. Therefore, b...

The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) is a flightless ratite formerly found throughout New Zealand but now greatly reduced in distribution. Previous phylogeographic studies of the related brown kiwi (A. mantelli, A. rowi and A. australis), with which little spotted kiwi was once sympatric, revealed extremely high levels of genetic structuring, with mitochondrial DNA haplotypes often restrict...

BACKGROUND Kiwi allergy is frequent and can be the result of sensitization to a number of allergens showing different physicochemical characteristics. Component-resolved diagnosis of kiwi allergy is still unavailable in routine clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether component resolved-diagnosis of kiwi allergy can be, at least in part, carried out by a proper combination of routi...

Periods of transition between phenological phases in different kiwi plant varieties: one the most widely grown fruits today, kiwis are extensively many subtropical and temperate nations. Kiwi farming has recently piqued curiosity fruit producers landowners our nation. In order to study morpho-biological traits growth development these varieties soil climate conditions Uzbekistan scientifically ...

A fast and low-cost analytical method to determine the concentrations of carotenoids (β-carotene, lutein, lycopene) from mixed standard solutions or fruit extracts (kiwi fruits, tomato paste, pink grapefruit juice, kiwi-pineapple smoothie, apricot nectar) was tested. The methodology based on UV-Vis spectrophotometry Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS). Results show...

Agricultural products are generally characterised by their commodity status. After years of poor returns, the New Zealand kiwi fruit industry developed the ZESPRI branding program in an attempt to position New Zealand kiwi fruit as an upmarket fruit category that appealed to today’s consumers. The brand has recently been released in New Zealand. This research assesses the effectiveness of ZESPR...

abstract: vacuum deep-fat frying is a new technology that can be used to improve the quality attributes of fried food because of the low temperatures employed and minimal exposure to oxygen. in this paper the effect of frying process parameters, namely frying time, frying temperature and pressure on the quality factors of fried kiwi slices was studied. a laboratory scale vacuum frying apparatus...