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Lipophilic Compounds and Antibacterial Activity of Opuntia ficus-indica Root Ex...
Benramdane, Elias; Chougui, Nadia; Ramos, Patrícia A. B.; Makhloufi, Nawal; Tamendjari, Abderezak; Silvestre, Armando J. D.; Santos, Sónia A. O.The chemical composition, investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and antibacterial activity of lipophilic extractives of three varieties of Opuntia ficus-indica roots from Algeria are reported in this paper for the first time. The results obtained revealed a total of 55 compounds, including fatty acids, sterols, monoglycerides and long chain aliphatic alcohols that were identified and quantified....
Polysaccharide-based films of cactus mucilage and agar with antioxidant propert...
Makhloufi, Nawal; Chougui, Nadia; Rezgui, Farouk; Benramdane, Elias; Silvestre, Armando J. D.; Freire, Carmen S. R.; Vilela, CarlaThe production of films derived from renewable resources for food packaging applications is an important research area within the scope of sustainable development. Herein, fully biobased films made from cactus mucilage (CM), extracted from Algerian Opuntia ficus-indica cladodes, and agar (A), extracted from marine red algae, were assembled via solvent film casting method. The effect of agar concentration on the...