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Edible flowers as an emerging horticultural product: a review on sensorial prop...
Pires Junior, Eleomar de O.; Di Gioia, Francesco; Rouphael, Youssef; García-Caparrós, Pedro; Tzortzakis, Nikolaos; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.Background: The current consumer needs for functional and healthy foods, as well as for diversified diets that include a variety of food sources have created a market niche for novel horticultural products such as edible flowers and related food formulations. Scope and approach: Considering the increasing interest on this crop production sector during the last few years, this review aims to compile the most rel...
The compositional aspects of edible flowers as an emerging horticultural product
Pires Junior, Eleomar de O.; Di Gioia, Francesco; Rouphael, Youssef; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.; Caleja, Cristina; Barros, LillianEdible flowers are becoming very popular, as consumers are seeking healthier and more attractive food products that can improve their diet aesthetics and diversify their dietary sources of micronutrients. The great variety of flowers that can be eaten is also associated with high variability in chemical composition, especially in bioactive compounds content that may significantly contribute to human health. The...
Microgreens: from trendy vegetables to functional food and potential nutrition ...
Di Gioia, Francesco; Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.; Rosskopf, E.N.Starting as trendy high-value gourmet greens, today, microgreens have gained great popularity among consumers for their nutritional profile and high content of antioxidant compounds. Microgreens’ nutritional profile is associated with the rich variety of colors, shapes, textural properties, and flavors obtained from sprouting a multitude of edible vegetable species, including herbs, herbaceous crops, and neglec...
Wild and cultivated centaurea raphanina subsp. Mixta: A valuable source of bioa...
Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Fernandes, Ângela; Dias, Maria Inês; Pereira, Carla; Calhelha, Ricardo C.; Di Gioia, Francesco; Tzortzakis, NikolaosCentaurea raphanina subsp. mixta (DC.) Runemark is a wild edible species endemic to Greece. This study evaluated the chemical composition and bioactive properties of wild and cultivated C. raphanina subsp. mixta plants. Wild plants had higher nutritional value than cultivated ones, whereas cultivated plants contained more tocopherols. Glucose and sucrose were higher in cultivated plants and trehalose in wild on...
The effect of nitrogen input on chemical profile and bioactive properties of gr...
Cruz, Luís Royer Oliveira; Fernandes, Ângela; Di Gioia, Francesco; Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Polyzos, Nikolaos; Dias, Maria Inês; Pinela, JoséIn the present study, three red-colored (Dark Opal, Basilico Rosso, and Red Basil) and one green-colored landrace (Mitikas) of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) were grown under four nitrogen regimes, namely Control (no fertilizer added), 200 ppm, 400 ppm, and 600 ppm of nitrogen (N). Fresh yield varied depending on N input following a quadratic function in all four genotypes, and green basil performed better compare...
Chemical composition and bioactive properties of Cichorium spinosum L. in relat...
Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Fernandes, Ângela; Calhelha, Ricardo C.; Di Gioia, Francesco; Kolovou, Panagiota; Barros, Lillian; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.Nitrogenous fertilizers may affect the yield and quality of leafy vegetables via the application rate and nitrogen form. In the present study, the effect of the nitrate:ammonium nitrogen ratio in the nutrient solution on the chemical composition and bioactive properties of Cichorium spinosum leaves was evaluated. For this purpose, C. spinosum plants were fertigated with nutrient solution containing different ra...
Cotton and cardoon byproducts as potential growing media components for Cichori...
Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Fernandes, Ângela; Stojković, Dejan; Pereira, Carla; Taofiq, Oludemi; Di Gioia, Francesco; Tzortzakis, N.; Soković, MarinaThe intensification of horticultural crops cultivation makes urgent the seeking for alternative growth substrates that could substitute non-renewable and/or synthetic growing media, such as peat and rock wool. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential use of byproducts from two industrial crops commonly cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, namely cardoon and cotton, as growth substrates for C...
The effect of sowing date on plant growth and nutritional value of Cichorium sp...
Petropoulos, Spyridon Α.; Vasilios, Antoniadis; Di Gioia, Francesco; Fernandes, Ângela; Barros, Lillian; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.Cichorium spinosum L. is a wild edible green, native to the Mediterranean basin, which usually grows in coastal areas and plateaus. In the present study, plant growth and mineral composition of C. spinosum was evaluated for two consecutive growing periods. Seeds of C. spinosum were sown in seed trays on 15th of October, 2013 and 17th of January, 2014 and young seedlings were transplanted on 12th of December, 20...