Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, is an ancient perennial shrub of South America, with great potential as a crop for the production of high-power natural sweetener. Due to its chemical composition and content of the phytochemical ...

Nowadays, the application of natural antimicrobials like plant extracts in food preservation isbecoming popular and increasing. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Echinophora platyloba (E.

In recent years, increasing in the level of public health consciousness has led to a drastic decrease in the use of synthetic food preservatives. Therefore, there has been a growing demand for novel antimicrobials. Apart ...

In this study the bacterial growth inhibitory activity of peptide fragments produced from goat's milk whey proteins by enzymatic hydrolysis using trypsin, ficin and a combination of both was investigated. Goat's milk whey ...

Milk proteins provide a natural source of bioactive peptides with potential health benefits and applications in the food industry. The release of these peptides from milk proteins is achieved either by hydrolysis using ...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of enzymatic hydrolysis of Spirulina protein on the solubility, emulsifying activity index (EAI), emulsion stability index (ESI), and DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activity of ...

ABSTRACT: In this study the reliability of using response surface-neural network method to predict the osmotic dehydration properties of crookneck squash has been investigated. In order to carry out this project, the osmotic ...

ABSTRACT: Aqueous enzymatic extraction of oil from pistacia khinjuk was performed using cellulase. The central composite design was used to optimize the parameters that are significant to the process. The influence of three ...

Since rice is a staple food most consumed world-wide, there have been increasing health concerns regarding exposure to arsenic through rice consumption. Several studies have reported the accumulation of arsenic in rice ...

ABSTRACT: A combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) with headspace solid-phase micro extraction (SPME) method has been employed for the analysis of the flavor volatiles of three different rice cultivar, ...

Biological adsorption of heavy metals is an effective process for removing heavy metals from aqueous solutions. In this study, the adsorption properties of non-viable Phanerochaete Chrysosporium biomass are studied for ...

ABSTRACT: The crystallinity of wheat starch in two types of flat breads was studied using Differential Scanning Calorimetery. Three types of flours with different proteins of 9.4, 11.6 and 13.5% were prepared and two ...

Crème caramel is sugar heated and turned into brown syrup to which milk and eggs are then added therefore each of its unit contains 200 kcal of energy for the consumer. Chlorella protothecoides is considered one of the ...

Protein recovery under sonication treatment and autolysis, also protein hydrolysis progress during enzymatic hydrolysis (using trypsin and chymotrypsin) and autolysis (using endogenous enzymes) were investigated in ...

Tea might be considered as the most popular drink in Iran as well as some other parts of theworld. Its popularity to some extent depends on its flavor and some other constituents present in its leaves orextract. ...

ABSTRACT: Essential oils are commonly used to treat minor health problems. In this study the chemical compositions of Lavandula officinalis and Thymus vulgaris were determined by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. ...

Medicinal plants are considered as valuable natural sources. In this study, the antibacterial properties of Cirsium congestum essential oil and methanolic extract were investigated against Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, ...

There is a growing interest in food industry to replace the synthetic chemicals by the natural products with bioactive properties from plant origin. The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition of ...

The essential oil of Verbena officinalis growing in Iran was extracted using hydro-distillationmethod and the antibacterial and antioxidant activities were evaluated. The antibacterial activity of the essential

Food preservation is an action or a method of maintaining foods at a desired level of properties or nature for their maximum benefits. In general, each step of handling, processing, storage, and distribution affects the ...