Edible flowers: Emerging components in the diet

TCSP Pires, L Barros, C Santos-Buelga… - Trends in Food Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The search for a healthier lifestyles and changing eating habits, have placed
viable and safer alternatives products in the market. In particular, edible flowers are used to …

Beyond enzyme production: Solid state fermentation (SSF) as an alternative approach to produce antioxidant polysaccharides

R Verduzco-Oliva, JA Gutierrez-Uribe - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Solid state fermentation (SSF) is a sustainable process that uses low amounts of water and
transforms plant-based agro-industrial residues into valuable products such as enzymes …

Preparation of acylated chitosan with caffeic acid in non-enzymatic and enzymatic systems: Characterization and application in pork preservation

B Huang, Z Zhang, N Ding, Y Zhuang, G Zhang… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
To further improve the performance of chitosan in food processing and preservation, this
study investigated the grafting of the caffeic acid onto the chitosan in non-enzymatic and …

Determination of phenolic acid profiles by HPLC-MS in vegetables commonly consumed in China

L Zhang, Y Li, Y Liang, K Liang, F Zhang, T Xu… - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
This study aimed to establish a precise HPLC-MS approach to determine the concentrations
and distribution of major phenolic acids in six categories of vegetables that are commonly …

Comparison of the nutritional properties and biological activities of kiwifruit (Actinidia) and their different forms of products: Towards making kiwifruit more nutritious …

T Ma, T Lan, Y Ju, G Cheng, Z Que, T Geng, Y Fang… - Food & Function, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The nutritional properties and biological activities of kiwifruit and their different products
made from same raw kiwifruit were investigated. Compared with the more common Hayward …

Weather during key growth stages explains grain quality and yield of maize

CJ Butts-Wilmsmeyer, JR Seebauer, L Singleton… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield and compositional quality are interrelated and are highly
influenced by environmental factors such as temperature, total precipitation, and soil water …

Infant cereals: current status, challenges, and future opportunities for whole grains

M Klerks, MJ Bernal, S Roman, S Bodenstab, A Gil… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Infant cereals play an important role in the complementary feeding period. The aim of this
study was to review existing research about the quantity, type, and degree of infant cereal …

The effects of short term blue light treatment on promoting nutrition value in Chinese cabbage

R Zhang, Y Liu, Q Pan, A Khan, X Bai, M Ali, W Yang… - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Chinese cabbage is a nutrients-rich vegetable with diverse leaf colors. Here, we used widely-
targeted metabolomics technology to study the metabolic responses of three Chinese …

[HTML][HTML] High throughput analytical approach based on μQuEChERS combined with UHPLC-PDA for analysis of bioactive secondary metabolites in edible flowers

S Izcara, R Perestrelo, S Morante-Zarcero, JS Câmara… - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Mallow blue (Malva sylvestris L.), hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.) and nasturtium
(Tropaeolum majus L.), are common edible flowers rich in bioactive secondary metabolites …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritional properties and biological activities of kiwifruit (Actinidia) and kiwifruit products under simulated gastrointestinal in vitro digestion

T Ma, T Lan, T Geng, Y Ju, G Cheng, Z Que… - Food & nutrition …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Kiwifruit is one of the most commercialized fruits on the international market,
which has notable high nutritional and medicinal value with many health benefits. In addition …