Background & Aim: The genus Echinacea (family Asteraceae), commonly known as purple coneflower, is an important medicinal plant that has been used for centuries, customarily as a treatment for the common cold, coughs, bronchitis, upper respiratory infections, and some inflammatory conditions . The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of six different methods of ...

Solar drying and convective oven of cherry tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) were compared. The changes in the chemical parameters principal recorded during process. Drying curves fitted to several mathematical models, effects air temperature evaluated by multiple regression analyses, comparing previously reported models. Models for conditions indicated a final water content 30% (semidry products...

Conservation of agricultural crops and minimization of grain losses is challenging issue in the present scenario. Effective use of thermal energy for drying of paddy and other cereals for maintaining proper quality is the quality drying process. Natural convection grain dryer is quite suitable for under developed and developing countries like India where rural electrification and advanced dryin...

Plant metabonomic analysis is essential for understanding plant systems responses to osmotic stresses. To understand the comprehensive metabolic responses of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (SMB) to continuous and exhaustive water depletion, we characterized the SMB metabonomic variations induced by three different drying processes using the combined NMR and LC-DAD-MS method. NMR results showed that ...

background & aim: salvia hydrangea is one of the medicinal plants belonging to lamiaceae family. medicinal plants can be marketed as fresh or dried products; however aromatic plants are often dried before extraction to reduce moisture content. the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of different drying methods on qualitative and quantitative changes in essential oil of sage. experiment...

<p>The green macroalgae <em>Ulva lactuca</em> (L.) is a potential alternative protein source. This study investigates the effect of soaking and different drying methods on color quality <em>U. lactuca</em>. Moisture ash content, color, i.e., crude protein, in vitro digestibility, solubility seaweed were determined. In its conduct, fresh was soaked water for various...

This study aimed to determine the effect of different drying methods on physical and chemical characteristics Senduduk fruit powder best method in producing then applied as a natural dye food. used an exploratory with three treatments (drying oven dryer, vacuum oven, sun dryer). The result showed that use resulted senduduk this was using characteristics, is yield 15.57%, ºHue 45.27, long time d...

The drying process can affect the content of seconder metabolites such as flavonoids and phenols in plants. plays an important role antioxidant activity a plant. This study aims to determine effect methods using sunlight oven on activity, total flavonoids, phenols. Measurement DPPH method with vitamin C standard, flavonoid levels quercetin phenol gallic acid standard were measured UV-Vis spectr...