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... The present study aimed to produce a biosurfactant from Candida yeast cultivated in a low-cost medium made of sugar-cane molasses (5%), frying oil waste (5%), and corn steep liquor (5%). Initially, the production at the flask-scale was investigated and then scaled up in bioreactors to 1.2, 3.0, and 50 L to simulate a real production scale. The products obtained an excellent reduction in surface te ...
... Mushrooms and truffles are attracting attention as a new generation of biotherapeutics. In the current study, isolation, phenolic and organic acid composition, and antioxidant, cytotoxic, anticholinesterase activities of truffle Reddellomyces parvulosporus were examined. Four known compounds (brassicasterol (1), ergosterol peroxide (2), fumaric acid (3) and mannitol (4)) were isolated with the com ...
... In this paper, polysaccharides from Agrocybe cylindracea (ACPs) were chemically acetylated. Effects of reaction time, reaction temperature and acetylated reagent amounts (acetic anhydride) on the degree of substitution (DS) of acetylated groups were investigated based on single factor experiments. Response surface analysis method was used to optimize acetylation process of ACPs. The maximum DS of ...
Olea europaea; antioxidants; chemical analysis; cytotoxicity; food additives; research; therapeutics
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... The Olea europaea L. is a very well-known and widely used plant, especially for its nutritional qualities. Its extracts from leaves and fruits are widely used in contrasting and preventing various pathologies. In this review, the collected data highlight important chemical analyses and biological effects of this plant extracts. It exhibits cholesterol-lowering, hypoglycemic, cytotoxic, antibacteri ...
... Citron (Citrus. medica L.) fruits are commonly utilized in the production of essential oil, therefore, the fruits residues turn out to be industrial byproducts. In the present study, a crude polysaccharide was extracted from citron fruit residues by hot water extraction and precipitation of ethanol (95%), after deproteinization, a major polysaccharide component (CMLP-2) was obtained by gradient et ...
... This review summarizes the potential use of citrus peels in the food industry. The present work is an overview of different compounds extracted from various species of citrus peel and the functional properties of different compounds, along with their potential applications as valuable ingredients in food-based products. Citrus peel is a valuable natural source of diverse bioactive compounds, inclu ...
Coccinia grandis; apoptosis; biomarkers; caspases; chemical constituents of plants; dietary supplements; ethanol; exercise; fast foods; food additives; hepatocytes; high fat diet; hunger; inflammation; liver; monosodium glutamate; reactive oxygen species; shrinkage; society; taste; transcription factor NF-kappa B
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... In the present socioeconomic era, people are consuming ready‐made fast‐food regularly with minimal physical exercise. Food processors use monosodium glutamate, saturated fatty acids, and hydrogenated fats to prepare flavor‐enhancing high‐lipid diet (FHD), which cause oxidative damage to different experimental animals and humans through the generation of reactive oxygen species. This study aimed to ...
food additives; food industry; food safety; laws and regulations; liquid-liquid extraction; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; polydimethylsiloxane; public health; quantitative analysis; shelf life; silicon
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... Food additives are in widespread use in the food industry to extend the shelf life of food, improve its organoleptic characteristics or facilitate industrial processing. Their use is not without controversy, which makes regulation and control crucial for food safety and public health. Among food additives, silicone-based antifoaming agents (polysiloxanes or E900) are difficult to analyze and quant ...
European Union; Salvia officinalis; chemical compounds; essential oils; food additives; food industry; ingredients; oils; postharvest technology; raw materials; sage; temperature; weed control
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... Salvia officinalis is commonly used as an ingredient in the food industry and has been shown to possess several biological activities. The essential oil (EO) of S. officinalis is characterized by thujones compounds, which are subjected to certain limits in the European Union (EU), as food additive. Sage inflorescences have different profile compared to leaves, with lower content in thujones, and c ...
... The current scenario of global trends impacts the way in which food is consumed and packed, meaning that change is inevitable and just around the horizon in terms of making food packaging eco-friendlier and more sustainable. Scientific advancements over the past decades have led to a wide spectrum of solutions to this problem in terms of smart, active, and antimicrobial packaging systems. The incr ...
... This study aimed to investigate the synergistic bactericidal activity and mechanism of dual-stage light-guided membrane and DNA-targeted photodynamic inactivation (PDI) by the combination of blue light (BL, 420 nm) and the food additive octyl gallate (OG) against Vibrio parahaemolyticus in planktonic and biofilm growth modes. While OG serves as an outstanding exogenous photosensitizer, the plankto ...
... TiO₂ (E171) is widely used in processed food as a coloring agent. However, growing concerns about the potential health effects of TiO₂ nanoparticles (< 100 nm) have necessitated the need for monitoring the size distribution and cytotoxic properties of food additive TiO₂ present in commercial food. In this study, we employed magnetic separation method to extract food additive TiO₂ from 100 commerci ...
... The effect of alkali on the rheological properties and microstructure of dough was investigated. Also, the color and sensory properties of alkali‐added noodles were evaluated. The results showed that the dough quality indexes and tensile properties increased with the addition of alkali. The test results of frequency sweep, stress relaxation, and creep recovery showed that the elasticity, hardness, ...
... Daylily is an edible flower in China. Daylily powder is prepared from the flowered or damaged by‐products during its processing, which accounts for 10% of the total amount. In order to optimize the drying methods, the powder properties, internal structure, nutrition, and color of daylily powder prepared by natural air drying (ND), hot air drying (HD), vacuum freeze‐drying (FD), and spray drying (S ...
... The goal of this study was to elucidate the mechanism by which thymol caused membrane damages in Bacillus cereus cells and the feasibility of its application in the preservation of skim milk. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of thymol was determined using the broth microdilution method. The membrane potentials, intracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentrations, and pH gradients a ...
Min-Kyeong Lee; Youn-Hwan Hwang; Heeyeon Ryu; Ami Lee; Hyeon Hak Jeong; Jiwon Baek; Myeong-Jin Kim; Ji Yun Lee; Ji Yun Van; Yunshan Liu; Chun Whan Choi; Min Soo Kim; Bonggi Lee
antioxidant activity; apple juice; ascorbic acid; catechol oxidase; food additives; food chemistry; phytochemicals; toxicity; traditional medicine
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... Although Galla rhois has been used as a traditional medicine in Asian countries, there was no application of it in anti-browning food additives. Here, we tested whether Galla rhois inhibits apple juice browning. Apple juice browning was blocked at 250–1000 µg/ml of Galla rhois for 16 days but the effect of vitamin C did not last until a day. In vitro assays showed that the antioxidant capacity of ...
... Since its discovery in the late eighteenth century and mass production in the early twentieth century, titanium dioxide has been used in a wide range of applications such as paints, cosmetics, energy storage, photocatalysis and food. Health concerns regarding TiO₂ use as a food additive, named E171 in Europe, are mainly due to the presence of nanoparticles, whereas it should contain only micropart ...
... PURPOSE: Anabasis articulata (Forssk.) Moq. (Chenopodiaceae), also called Eshnan, Ajremor Berry bearing glasswort, is widely distributed in Syrian, Algerian, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egyptian and Iraqi desert, Spain (Alicante, Almería, Granada and Murcia provinces), Mauritania, Western Sahara and Morocco. Anabasis articulata is broadly used in folk medicine to treat diabetes, fever, eczema a ...
... In this study, the effects of different coating materials (maltodextrin and gum arabic), ultrasonication time (10–20–30 min), and core to coating ratio (1:10, 1:20, and 1:30) on microencapsulation of cranberrybush fruit were investigated. Freeze drying was applied for 48 h to obtain the microcapsules. The dependent variables of the research were encapsulation efficiency, antioxidant activity, colo ...
... Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic fungus that causes severe losses of postharvest pepper fruit. Moreover, this fungus is indiscriminate, causing severe disease in a variety of plant species, thus isolation and identification of the individual strains are crucial for the development of strain specific antifungal agents. In this study, B. cinerea was isolated from naturally infected green pepper fr ...
acrylamides; anthocyanins; beta-carotene; cheeses; chemical species; food additives; food analysis; food chemistry; gingerbread; matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization mass spectrometry; meat; natamycin; processed foods; spatial data
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... Mass Spectrometry imaging (MS imaging) provides spatial information for a wide range of compound classes in different sample matrices. We used MS imaging to investigate the distribution of components in fresh and processed food, including meat, dairy and bakery products. The MS imaging workflow was optimized to cater to the specific properties and challenges of the individual samples. We successfu ...
bisulfites; chemical species; color; density functional theory; detection limit; electron transfer; fluorescence; food additives; food chemistry; mitochondria; pH; rapid methods; sugars; sulfites
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... Bisulfite (HSO₃–)/Sulfite (SO₃²–) is widely used as a food additive, but excessive use often leads to serious consequences, so the detection of HSO₃–/SO₃²– is of great importance. In this paper, a novel 1,4-diethylpiperazine-modified coumarin-benzopyran derivative (probe QLP) has been synthesized and characterized. In PBS (10 mM, pH = 7.4), QLP displays good selectivity and is sensitive for HSO₃–/ ...
... Hyssopus cuspidatus is a famous spice and an aromatic vegetable. Few information could be available concerning its non-volatile chemical composition and bioactivities. Preliminary bioactive evaluations on the crude ethanol extract and its four fractions disclosed that the ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) exhibited antioxidant and antimicrobial bioactivities. LC-MS/MS analysis of EAF helped to identify ...
... There is a growing demand for biopolymers for packaging, dietary fiber, and as a food additive, where nanocellulose has become an important material for such purposes. In this study, a process utilizing successive steps in the same container was used, avoiding washing and neutralization between stages, showing nanocellulose isolation using a brown alga with a yield of 14.9%. Transparent films of p ...
... In order to broaden the application field of proanthocyanidins (PCs) from Zijuan tea, it is necessary to establish an environmental and economic extraction method of PCs from Zijuan tea. Based on the single‐factor experiment, Box‐Behnken response surface methodology was used to study the effects of solid–liquid ratio, the concentration of citric acid solution, ultrasonic power, ultrasonic time, an ...
World Health Organization; biosecurity; body weight; curcumin; eosin; food additives; food chemistry; food industry; oxidation; water solubility
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... Curcumin (CUR) is a food additive approved by World Health Organization. But the shortcomings, such as poor water solubility, easy oxidation and degradation, limit its application. In this study, the CUR-loaded poloxamer₁₈₈-based nanoparticles (CUR/PTT NPs) were fabricated to improve the stability and water solubility of CUR. Studies found the spherical CUR/PTT NPs had an average size of 98.71 ± 0 ...
... Osteoarthritis is a significant driver of disability in the elderly with increasing prevalence, and inflammation plays a vital role on its etiology. Licorice is commonly used as a traditional Chinese medicine or food additive, and its prenylated phenolic compounds were recently reported to be able to inhibit osteoarthritis with anti-inflammatory activity. In order to explore more anti-osteoarthrit ...
... Nitrite is both an environmental contaminant and a food additive. Excessive intake of nitrites not only causes blood diseases, but also has the potential risk of causing cancer. Therefore, rapid detection of nitrite in water is necessary. In this work, we propose an electrochemical sensor for the sensing of nitrite. Glassy carbon electrodes modified with noble metal nanomaterials have been widely ...
Camelina sativa; Food and Drug Administration; agronomic traits; arid lands; cooking fats and oils; cultivars; erucic acid; ethyl methanesulfonate; field experimentation; food additives; herbicide resistance; humans; introgression; loci; mutagenesis; mutants; profitability; salads; seed oils
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... Erucic acid concentration in oil of most camelina (Camelina sativa L. Crantz) genotypes exceeds the 2% threshold allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a food additive. Lowering erucic acid concentration below the FDA threshold enables marketing camelina as edible oil for human consumption, greatly expanding potential uses to include food ingredients such as marinades, s ...
... Although monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a widely used food additive, its safety and systemic side effects have not been fully clarified. The intestinal flora is closely associated with human health; however, it remains unclear whether MSG consumption can affect health by acting on the intestinal flora. In this study, serum biomarkers, intestinal structure, intestinal immunity, and intestinal flora ...
... Sodium dithionite (Na₂S₂O₄) is an inorganic sodium salt, a bleaching agent that has a reducing agent role and is generally used as food additive or preservative in the production of diverse foods and beverages. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of Na₂S₂O₄ on cardiac mitochondria damage and biochemical parameters in male mice. Na₂S₂O₄ were administered orally at doses of 10, 20, 50 ...
... Canned products are important part of human diet and therefore, many types of canned products with high amounts are produced worldwide. During canned production, cooking water of pulses (aquafaba) is an important waste. Therefore, recycling of it is important for sustainability and economic value. In the present study, it was aimed to determine technological properties of aquafabas obtained from c ...
... A high-salt (HS) diet leads to metabolic disorders in Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats, and promotes the development of hypertension. According to the changes in the metabolites of SS rats, a set of combined dietary supplements containing amino acids and organic acids (AO) were designed. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of AO supplementation on the blood pressure of SS rats ...
... Rhododendron arboreum Smith flowers constitute a valuable dietary supplement or food additive and are novel therapeutic agents. The present work demonstrates and optimizes an effective, enzyme-based ultrasonic approach for polyphenols extraction as a potential alternative to conventional extraction methods. Enzyme-based extraction constitutes an efficient, benign, sustainable, and eco-friendly ext ...
amyloid; circular dichroism spectroscopy; dyes; fluorescence; food additives; human serum albumin; neurotoxicity; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; transmission electron microscopy
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... Intensive research in the field of protein aggregation confirmed that the deposition of amyloid fibrils of proteins are the major cause for the development of various neurotoxic and neurodegenerative diseases, which could be controlled by ensuring the efficient inhibition of aggregation using anti aggregation strategies. Herein, we elaborated the anti amyloidogenic potential of Sunset Yellow (SY) ...
... Nanotechnology governance, particularly in relation to human and environmental concerns, remains a contested domain. In recent years, the creation of both a risk governance framework and council has been actively pursued. Part of the function of a governance framework is the communication to external stakeholders. Existing descriptions on the public perceptions of nanotechnology are generally posi ...
K.A. Woodling; P. Chitranshi; C.C. Jacob; L. Loukotková; L.S. Von Tungeln; G.R. Olson; R.E. Patton; S. Francke; S.R. Mog; R.P. Felton; F.A. Beland; Y. Zang; G. Gamboa da Costa
... Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on an interim basis as a food additive. Past studies have raised concerns about potential toxicities from consuming BVO. To investigate further these toxicities, we conducted a 90-day dietary exposure study in Sprague Dawley rats and analyzed tissue distribution of the main metabolites. Six-week-old male and fe ...
... Ceramide is a natural functional ingredient as food additive and medicine that has attracted extensive attention in the food, medical, and cosmetic industries. Here, we developed a biotechnological strategy based on a recombinant whole-cell biocatalyst for efficiently producing ceramide from crude soybean oil sediment (CSOS) waste. A novel phospholipase C (PLCₐc) from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus i ...
Drosophila suzukii; attractants; cages; field experimentation; food additives; fruits; mineral oil; octenol; oviposition; oviposition deterrents; pests; polyethylene; raspberries; Europe; North America
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... BACKGROUND: Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), spotted‐wing drosophila (SWD), is a major invasive pest of soft‐skinned fruits in North America and Europe. Although insecticides are currently the primary method of SWD control, it is imperative to develop alternative management approaches, such as behavioral control through the use of repellents and attractants. This study explores the repellent proper ...
... Azodicarbonamide (ADA), as a dough conditioner food additive in flour, can be turned into toxic biurea and semicarbazide after high temperature processing. Hence, the using of ADA in food material should be strictly controlled, and the detection of ADA is very important for consumers’ safety and health. Herein, a simple and fast colorimetric strategy has been developed for ADA detection based on t ...
... A UPLC-MS/MS method was developed and validated for the determination of aflatoxin B₁ (AFB1), aflatoxin B₂ (AFB2), aflatoxin G₁ (AFG1), aflatoxin G₂ (AFG2) and ochratoxin A (OTA) in raw coffee samples. Mycotoxins were extracted using a modified QuEChERS method with little sample preparation excluding clean-up and enrichment procedures. Linearity was demonstrated for the five mycotoxins in the rang ...
Danio rerio; Lewis bases; adults; aqueous solutions; bisulfites; canned fruit; colorimetry; cytotoxicity; density functional theory; fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; food additives; mass spectrometry; mice; tea; titration; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy; water solubility; white sugar; white wines
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... Bisulfite (HSO₃–) has been widely used as an important food additive in daily life. Furthermore, a normal amount of HSO₃– plays a significant role in biological systems. However, excessive intake of HSO₃– will lead to a variety of diseases. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop an efficient fluorescent probe that can be used for detection of HSO₃– in biological systems and food samples ...
... 3D printing, an additive manufacturing technique, is being used in many sectors and when it is adopted for the rapid and customized production of food items, the technology is known as food-layered manufacturing (FLM). FLM can be used to prepare customized and texture modified food products, having desired nutritional value and food quality, from different ingredients and additives. This paper rev ...
Artemisia sphaerocephala; antioxidants; food additives; freshness; polysaccharides; traditional medicine; water solubility
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... Artemisia sphaerocephala Krasch (ASK) is an important member of Compositae (Asteraceae) family. Its seeds have been widely used as traditional medicine and to improve the quality of food. Water soluble and water insoluble polysaccharides are found in the seeds of this plant. Research has been conducted on the extraction of polysaccharides, their modification and determination of their structure. T ...
bottled water; food additives; humans; lakes; methylparaben; pollution; research; risk; river water; solid phase extraction; surveys; tandem mass spectrometry; tap water; wastewater; Vietnam
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... Seven parabens including methylparaben (MeP), ethylparaben (EtP), propylparaben (PrP), iso-propylparaben (iPrP), butylparaben (BuP), benzylparaben (BzP), and heptylparaben (HepP) were determined in bottled water, tap water, river water, lake water, and wastewater samples collected from Hanoi, Vietnam, using solid phase extraction (SPE) followed by ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-tandem ...
... Propylene glycol (PG; 1,2-propanediol) has been commonly used as a food additive and vehicle in pharmaceutical preparations. PG can form rectus (R-) enantiomers and sinister (S-) enantiomers. Herein, Kunming mice were used as the animal model to evaluate the acute and subacute oral toxicity of R-PG, S-PG and RS-PG (1:1 racemic mixture of R-PG and S-PG). The median lethal doses of R-PG, S-PG and RS ...
... Diallyl sulfide (DAS) is a garlic-derived organosulfur compound known for its chemotherapeutic properties, as a strong food additive and a potential radiomitigator. Despite its therapeutic potentials, the apparent lack of toxicity data hinders its clinical applications. The present study investigated the pre-clinical toxicity of DAS to identify the maximum tolerable and lethal doses and understand ...
carcinogenicity; chronic exposure; cytotoxicity; food additives; hydroquinone; mechanism of action; mutagens; public health; safety assessment; therapeutics; toxicology
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... Tert-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) is a food additive commonly used as a more effective protectant in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. However, the long-term exposure to TBHQ at higher doses (0.7 mg/kg) results in substantial danger to public health and brings a series of side effects, including cytotoxic, genotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic effects. As a result, the global burden ...
batters; breads; food additives; hydrolysates; molecular weight; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; protein hydrolysates; rice; rice protein; rice starch; temperature; thermolysin
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... Protease has been shown to be an effective food additive for improving the quality of gluten-free rice bread. We found that rice protein hydrolysate by bacillolysin (Protin SD-NY10) and thermolysin (Thermoase) increased the specific volume of gluten-free rice starch bread. Many fine bubble cells were observed in the crumb of the rice starch bread containing rice protein hydrolysate by proteases us ...
... Automatic solvent extraction (ASE) was employed to acquire orange peel extract rich in carotenoid by means of several solvents (hexane, heptane, and chloroform). D‐optimal design was used for the design of experiments, modeling the experimental data, and optimization of the extraction process. Selected process parameters (extraction time, particle size of the peel, and solvent type) for the curren ...