The synthetic oral cleansing and teeth whitening products like mouthwashes exert adverse effects on teeth, gums and mucous membrane of oral cavity and their extensive use is being criticized. Determining the effect of frequent use of mouthwashes, human cheek cells and their DNA have been studied. Five mouthwash brands were tested and their effects were examined on membrane and DNA of human chee...

Effects of Piper guineense (African Black Pepper) Seeds on Lipid Profile, Renal Function Parameters, and Antioxidant Status Cavia porcellus

Pepper is a type of spice that has slightly bitter, spicy, and warm character. Based on market forecasts, the trend pepper consumption will continue to increase during period from 2019 2025. In domestic market, potential be developed due opportunity its consumption. However, agribusiness also experiences various problems including limited ability adopt seed technology, cultivation, processing, ...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is a tropical plant, best known for its fruit, used as spice all around the world. The fruits of black can be processed in various ways, so there are end products such white, black, red, and green pepper. contains many substances terpenes, alkaloids, lignans, phenylpropanoids, etc., which responsible some most important biological activities: antioxidant, antimicr...

Abstract Pepper is a type of spice plant in Indonesia that used for cooking spices. One the advantages this it has spicy taste and distinctive scent caused by piperine essential oils contained pepper seeds. This research was carried out from June 2018 to October 2019, using main raw material Natar 1 variety pepper. The seed processed into black white pepper, yield calculated. Then observed leve...

to determine suitable pepper cultivars with high quantitative and qualitative characteristics adapted to the climate of sistan, an experiment was conducted in zahak experimental station, zabol, using rcbd with four replications in two years. in this experiment, four sweet pepper, five green pepper and three salad pepper cultivars were evaluated individually. the results showed significant diffe...

AIM To investigate the bactericidal and anti-adhesive properties of 25 plants against Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). METHODS Twenty-five plants were boiled in water to produce aqueous extracts that simulate the effect of cooking. The bactericidal activity of the extracts was assessed by a standard kill-curve with seven strains of H. pylori. The anti-adhesive property was assessed by the inh...