Valorization of bio-residues from the processing of main portuguese fruit crops: From discarded waste to health promoting compounds

LA Pascoalino, FS Reis, MA Prieto, JCM Barreira… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Food processing generates a large amount of bio-residues, which have become the focus of
different studies aimed at valorizing this low-cost source of bioactive compounds. High fruit …

Unveiling natural and semisynthetic acylated flavonoids: Chemistry and biological actions in the context of molecular docking

DM El-Kersh, RF Abou El-Ezz, M Fouad, MA Farag - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Acylated flavonoids are widely distributed natural metabolites in medicinal plants and foods
with several health attributes. A large diversity of chemical structures of acylated flavonoids …

Crop wild relatives (CWRs) threatened and endemic to Italy: Urgent actions for protection and use

EV Perrino, RP Wagensommer - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are wild plants with an indirect use derived
from their relatively close genetic relationship to a crop and have contributed to crop …

Phytochemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Portulaca oleracea: Influence of the Steaming Cooking Process

MP Fernández-Poyatos, EJ Llorent-Martínez… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this work, we compared the phenolic composition and antioxidant capacity of methanolic
extracts of raw and steamed aerial parts of Portulaca oleracea L. Two new cyclo-dopa …

Metabolomic and chemometric profiles of ten southern African indigenous fruits

NJ Nkosi, T Shoko, VE Manhivi, RM Slabbert… - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Using UPLC-QTOF/MS, metabolites were identified in 10 indigenous fruits from
South Africa. Metabolomic-chemometric analysis showed chlorogenic acid scored highest …

Anti-Obesity Attributes; UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS-Based Metabolite Profiling and Molecular Docking Insights of Taraxacum officinale

ZU Aabideen, MW Mumtaz, MT Akhtar, H Mukhtar… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The naturopathic treatment of obesity is a matter of keen interest to develop efficient natural
pharmacological routes for disease management with low or negligible toxicity and side …

Investigation into the biological properties, secondary metabolites composition, and toxicity of aerial and root parts of Capparis spinosa L.: An important medicinal food …

H Saleem, U Khurshid, M Sarfraz, I Ahmad… - Food and Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Capparis spinose L. also known as Caper is of great significance as a traditional medicinal
food plant. The present work was targeted on the determination of chemical composition …

Unravelling the phenolic compound reserves, antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activities of an endemic plant species, Achillea pseudoaleppica

MA Yılmaz, P Taslimi, Ö Kılıç, İ Gülçin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present ethnobotanical study unravelled the phenolic reservoir (UHPLC-MS/TQ-MS)
and pharmacological activity (antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activities) of an endemic …

Extraction and characterization of phenolic compounds with antioxidant and antimicrobial activities from pickled radish

J Li, SY Huang, Q Deng, G Li, G Su, J Liu… - Food and Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The pickled radish can be kept at room temperature for years without spoilage. 2, 6-
dihydroxyacetophenone (DHAP), 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (HBA), and 4-hydroxyphenethyl …

Bioactive compounds profile, enzyme inhibitory and antioxidant activities of water extracts from five selected medicinal plants

N Tlili, C Sarikurkcu - Industrial Crops and Products, 2020 - Elsevier
Medicinal plants are a potentially renewable source of biomolecules. The aim of the current
study was to investigate the bioactive compounds, the antioxidant capacity and the enzyme …