• Orange peel oil/HNT addition or crosslinking improved physical properties of films. Samples studied had distinctly different solubilities and visual appearances. oil HNT increased film hydrophobicity. All films other than control displayed antimicrobial activity. Biopolymer-based are natural, renewable, nontoxic biodegradable alternatives to plastic packaging. Despite years ongoing research, ...

The volatile compounds from Maclura pomifera (Osage orange fruit) peel have been studied by GC-FID and GC–MS. Volatiles fraction proportion was estimated to 60 mg/kg. Identified compounds consist on aliphatics (52.6%), monoterpenes along with sesquiterpenes (27.3%), phenylpropane derivatives along with related compounds (10.0%) and other compounds (10.6%). Among the 60 identified compounds, 1-h...

Materials and methods: In Experiment One, 180 seventeen-day-old YorkshireLandrace pigs were randomly assigned to three dietary treatments, including an unsupplemented, unmedicated basal diet (Control) and the basal diet supplemented with either 55 g per tonne carbadox (Phibro Animal Health, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) or 1.5 kg per tonne oregano oil (Van Beek Scientific, Orange City, Iowa). In...

is added to grapefruit pulp the pulp acts as a bland filler and makes an apple pie. If peach is added it makes a peach pie. Citric acid, sugar and peel oil give excellent orange, grapefruit and tangerine jams. A little' peel oil, sunset yellow, No. 6 and sugar makes a good ice cream mix. Add more sugar and you have a good sundae topping. Cake fillings were made from the jams but they gave troub...

Orange is a member of the Rutaceae family which known as one horticultural crops that widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions southern Asia. Citrus plants such fruit peels are used source essential oil-producing ingredients have antioxidant antimicrobial activity. This study aims to determine potential kaffir lime, calamansi orange peel oils antioxidants antibacterials. Scoping re...