The interests in the consumption of pepper fruits (Capsicum annum L.) is, to a large extent due to its content of bioactive compounds and their importance as dietary antioxidants. Peppers are used as a colourant, flavourant, and/or as a source of pungency. Peppers can be used fresh, dried, fermented, or as an oleoresin extract. It has both nutritional and nutraceutical importance. It contains a...

The respiration rate of green capsicum cv. ‘Swarna’ fruits harvested at mature green stage were determined under closed system at 10, 15 and 20 oC temperatures. A simple Michaelis-Menten kinetic model coupled with Arrhenius-type equation, which describes temperature as a function of respiration rate, was used to model the respiration rate of capsicum. The respiration rate model parameters at de...

Sweet pepper is one of the most important vegetable crops and its demand increasing day by in Bangladesh indicating need for varietal improvement program. Eleven sweet genotypes from native exotic sources were characterized twenty-five morphological traits using vegetative reproductive appearances at Institute Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh, November 2021 to March 2022. Noticeable variation wa...

1 2 Simultaneous near-infrared radiant heating and ultraviolet radiation for 3 inactivating Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar 4 Typhimurium in powdered red pepper (Capsicum annum L.) 5 6 Jae-Won Ha, Dong-Hyun Kang * 7 8 Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, 9 Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Se...