Ten South African plum cultivars and selections, including yellow- and red-fleshed plums from two harvest seasons were evaluated in terms of nutraceutical value (phenolic composition, total polyphenol content (TPC) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC)) and fruit attributes (colour, fruit mass, etc.). Plums were evaluated at two maturity stages, i.e., directly after harvest (unripe) and after a ...

Diabetes is a global pandemic which warrants urgent attention due to its rising prevalence and economic burden. Thus, many alternative therapies are being researched for antidiabetic properties, given the inefficacy of current medicinal treatments. From this perspective, Aronia melanocarpa or black chokeberry has been investigated for its therapeutic properties in many studies, especially for i...

Peach is a fruit highly appreciated by consumers; however, it perishable, so drying an alternative to preserve its physical and chemical properties. In this study, the effect of in natural forced convection at three different temperatures (40 °C, 45 °C 50 °C) solar with two air velocities (1 m/s 3 m/s) on color, texture, total phenol content antioxidant capacity peach (Prunus persica (L.) Batsc...

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...

Fruits of wild fruit species are considered healthy foods with the potential to treat and prevent chronic diseases. In recent years, food industry consumers have become increasingly interested in nutritional value safety ingredients. A traditional method processing fruits from spontaneous flora is form vinegar by simple easy techniques. The aim this paper was analyze chemical composition homema...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the bioactivity of flavonoids extracted from sweet-cherry stems which are often used by a traditional system of medicine to treat gastro-intestinal and urinary tract infections but lacking any consistent scientific evidence; moreover the information about the class of phenolics, their content and the potential bioactivity of such material is very scarce. Th...

Hydrocotyle umbellata L. (Family Araliaceae) populary known as Acaricoba, is indicated in folk medicine for treatment of several inflammatory disorders. The goal of the present study is to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activity of the defatted ethanolic extract (DEE) of the aerial parts using carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema method. The levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interl...

BACKGROUND The use of agricultural and food by-products is an economical solution to industrial biotechnology. The apricot press residues are abounding by-products from juice industry which can be used as substrates in solid state fermentation process (SSF), thus allowing a liberation and increase of content from various biomolecules with high added value. METHODS The evolutions of phenolic l...

Purpose: The present study evaluated the following caffeoylquinic acids, Neochlorogenic acid (3-CQA), Cryptochlorogenic (4-CQA), Chlorogenic Acid (5-CQA), Isochlorogenic A (3,5-DCQA) B (3,4-DCQA) and C (4,5-DCQA) found in Brazilian green propolis, regarding its physicochemical, pharmacokinetic conformational characteristics. Additionally, compounds were explored on efficacy of inhibiting pharma...