The pistachio (Pistacia.vera) belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. Plants of this family are trees or shrubs (broadleaf) and in total comprising 75 genera and 600 species. This species is found in arid and semi-arid regions, located in the northeast of Iran. Many algorithms have been investigated for tree delineation and identification, in order to assist human operators in the information expl...

OBJECTIVES Stillbirth is an undesirable outcome of pregnancy. In light of the increasing use of pesticides and growing concerns about the possible health effects of agricultural pesticides, we investigated the effect of exposure to pistachio pesticides on stillbirth in pregnant mothers. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in Rafsanjan, Iran from 2011 to 2012. A total of 125 females ...

Aflatoxins, carcinogenic toxins produced by Aspergillus fungi, contaminate maize, peanuts, and tree nuts in many regions of the world. Pistachios are the main source of human dietary aflatoxins from tree nuts worldwide. Over 120 countries have regulations for maximum allowable aflatoxin levels in food commodities. We developed social network models to analyze the association between nations' af...

Abstract Recent excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Sharara (ca. 9250 cal bc ) in southern Jordan have yielded a rich assemblage charred macrobotanical remains. The bulk this was recovered from single structure settlement that destroyed by fire and which appears to functioned as an area for processing possibly also storing plant foods. Among remains space were nearly 700 fig frui...

Phenolic compounds, flavonoids, anti-radical activity, and restorative power are found in walnuts, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, macadamia, peanuts. The highest content of phenolic substances the studied nuts was walnuts (536.6 mg gallic acid per 100 g dry matter), pistachios (512.9 matter) pecans (377.6 matter). Wild hazel contains 1.4 times more compared to hazelnuts 4.2 flavonoids. In...

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pistachio nut (pistacia vera l.) is one of the popular and nutritious tree nuts in the world. pistachio spread is a new product which is made from pistachio paste, icing sugar, soy protein isolate (spi), and red palm oil (rpo). this study involved sensory acceptability (by 32 assessors) using hedonic scale and development of suitable terminology for describing pistachio spread using quantitativ...

successful export of a commodity is closely dependent upon observing the related international standards. aflatoxin standard is an important index of pistachio import/export market. a lot of pistachio consignments are annually rejected because of being infected with aflatoxin. this results in export market's instability and fluctuations. the role of aflatoxin contammination in pistachio ma...