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Characterization of Phenolic Compounds of Arnica montana Conventional Extracts
Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Chamorro, Franklin; Donn, Pauline; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Seyyedi-Mansour, Sepidar; Silva, Aurora; Echave Álvarez, JavierArnica montana L. (Asteraceae family) is a plant commonly used in traditional medicine, and several reports have characterized this plant’s bioactivities, especially its phenolic compounds. These compounds are well known for their numerous beneficial biological properties. Consequently, industry stakeholders from the feed, food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical sectors are seeking extracts rich in phenolic compound...
Application of fermentation for the valorization of residues from Cactaceae family
Carpena Rodríguez, María; Cassani, Lucia; Gomez-Zavaglia, Andrea; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Seyyedi-Mansour, Sepidar; Cao, Hui; Simal-Gandara, JesusCactaceae family is well-known for their adaptations to drought and arid environments. This family, formed by four subfamilies (Cactoideae, Opuntioideae, Pereskioideae, and Maihuenioideae) are known for being leafless stem succulent plants with numerous spines, and their commercial fruits, distinguished by their bright colors and their skin covered with bracts. Some of these species have been traditionally used...
Untargeted metabolomics and in vitro functional analysis unravel the intraspeci...
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Cassani, Lucia; Oludemi, Taofiq; Chamorro, Franklin; Calhelha, Ricardo C.; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.; Barros, LillianThe Camellia genus comprises a vast array of underexplored medicinal plants that merit a systematic valorization to exploit their potential as natural sources of phytochemicals with associated health-promoting properties. In this work, flower extracts from eight poorly characterized Camellia japonica L. cultivars were subjected to polyphenol profiling through untargeted metabolomics combined with in vitro funct...
Challenges for future food systems: from the Green Revolution to food supply ch...
Soria-Lopez, Anton; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Carpena, Maria; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Otero, Paz; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Cao, Hui; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.Finding a food system to feed the growing worldwide population remains a challenge, especially in the current era, where natural resources are being dramatically depleted. From a historical point of view, the Green Revolution, together with biofortification and sustainable intensification, was established as a possible solution to counter hunger and malnutrition during the second half of the 20th century. As a ...
Sulfur-containing compounds from plants
Castro, Vera; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Lopez-Soria, A.; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Barral Martínez, Marta; Perez-Gregorio, R.Sulfur (S) is an essential nutrient assimilated through the diet and incorporated into organic structures such as amino acids, coenzymes, and other bioactive compounds. Plants’ ability to regulate stress resistance via secondary metabolism has extended the interest in S-containing compounds, driven by their additional properties as bioactive molecules. Among plant families that produce S-compounds, the Brassica...
Algal nutraceuticals: a perspective on metabolic diversity, current food applic...
Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Cassani, Lucia; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Xiao, Jianbo; Simal-Gandara, Jesus; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.; Lucini, LuigiThe current consumers’ demand for food naturalness is urging the search for new functional foods of natural origin with enhanced health-promoting properties. In this sense, algae constitute an underexplored biological source of nutraceuticals that can be used to fortify food products. Both marine macroalgae (or seaweeds) and microalgae exhibit a myriad of chemical constituents with associated features as a resu...
A HPLC‐DAD method for identifying and estimating the content of fucoxanthin, β‐...
Lourenço-Lopes, Catarina; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Carreira-Casais, Anxo; Silva, Aurora; Simal-Gandara, Jesus; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.Seaweeds are photosynthetic organisms that have high contents of pigments. The coloration of each alga is defined by the content and combination of pigments synthesized, which varies among species and environmental condi- tions. The most abundant pigments in algae are chlorophylls and carotenoids, lipophilic molecules that can be used as natural colorants and have high acceptance by consumers. In this work, a s...
Pigment Composition of Nine Brown Algae from the Iberian Northwestern Coastline...
Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Lourenço-Lopes, Catarina; Silva, Aurora; Pereira, Antia G.; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Zhao, Chao; Xiao, Jianbo; Simal-Gandara, JesusBrown algae are ubiquitously distributed in the NW coastline of the Iberian Peninsula, where they stand as an underexploited resource. In this study, five solvents were applied to the extraction of pigments from nine brown algae, followed by their determination and quantification by HPLC-DAD. A total of 13 compounds were detected: Six were identified as chlorophylls, six were classified as xanthophylls, and one...
Benefits and drawbacks of ultrasound-assisted extraction for the recovery of bi...
Carreira Casais, Anxo; Otero, Paz; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; García-Oliveira, Paula; González Pereira, Antía; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Soria-Lopez, AntonThe increase in life expectancy has led to the appearance of chronic diseases and interest in healthy aging, in turn promoting a growing interest in bioactive compounds (BCs) and functional ingredients. There are certain foods or products rich in functional ingredients, and algae are one of them. Algae consumption has been nominal in Europe until now. However, in recent years, it has grown significantly, partly...
Seaweed protein hydrolysates and bioactive peptides: extraction, purification, ...
Echave Álvarez, Javier; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Popović-Djordjević, Jelena; Avdović, Edina H.; Radulović, Milanka; Xiao, JianboSeaweeds are industrially exploited for obtaining pigments, polysaccharides, or phenolic compounds with application in diverse fields. Nevertheless, their rich composition in fiber, minerals, and proteins, has pointed them as a useful source of these components. Seaweed proteins are nutritionally valuable and include several specific enzymes, glycoproteins, cell wall-attached proteins, phycobiliproteins, lectin...