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Bio-Recycling Hazelnut Shells to Improve Antioxidant Properties of Lentinus tig...

Lentinus tigrinus is a wood-decay fungus known for its nutritional, culinary, and medicinal benefits. It contains bioactive compounds like polyphenols, terpenes, and flavonoids that exhibit antioxidant, anti-microbial, and anti-inflammatory effects. These natural antioxidants are increasingly recognized for their potential to prevent oxidative damage linked to aging and chronic diseases. This study investigates...

Banana Peels as Substrate for Lactic Acid Production: Upstream Fermentation Bio...

Purpose Banana peels account for around 30-40% of the banana's weight and represent an industrial waste. This biomass can be used as an eco-friendly solution for biotechnological bioprocesses. Still, due to the fibrous nature of banana peels, pretreatment becomes essential to enhance the effectiveness of enzymes on the hydrolysis of complex carbohydrates. This study aims to determine the best pretreatment and e...

Lemna minor: Unlocking the Value of This Duckweed for the Food and Feed Industry

Duckweed (Lemna minor L.) is a small floating aquatic plant that has an important economic impact in several industrial areas. With its high biomass production, reasonable protein content, and resilience to several climates, it has been attracting increasing interest for potential use in animal and human food systems. Historically consumed in southwest Asia, this duckweed is now gaining attention as a potential...

Phenolic Profile and Antioxidant and Biological Activities of Plant Extracts Ri...

In this work, hydroethanolic plant extracts (acorn husk, laurel, eucalyptus, and rockrose leaves) were screened for their content in condensed tannins (HPLC-DAD/MS), polyphenol content, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antiviral activities, and lack of toxicity. The results showed the highest values of condensed tannins found for laurel and eucalyptus extracts, while the total phenolic content ranged within 204....

Lemna minor: unlocking the value of this duckweed for the food and feed industry

Duckweed (Lemna minor L.) is a small floating aquatic plant that has an important economic impact in several industrial areas. With its high biomass production, reasonable protein content, and resilience to several climates, it has been attracting increasing interest for potential use in animal and human food systems. Historically consumed in southwest Asia, this duckweed is now gaining attention as a potential...

Optimization of cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum J. Presl.) essential oils extraction...

Value-added lipids from plant foods and respective applications

Since ancient times, man has used plants as a food source, associating their consumption with nutritional and health benefits. Among the nutrients obtained from plants, which the consumer associates more with beneficial health effects than those obtained from the animal diet, we can highlight the lipids. Lipids play a vital role in plant or animal biology, as they are a source of energy and can also act as horm...

History of secondary metabolites: from ancient myths to modern scientific valid...

The study of primary plant metabolism has been the main focus of scientists for several years, seconding research related to the secondary metabolism. Nowadays, with the better understanding of the processes and products involved in primary metabolism, the focus has switched to the expansion of knowledge involving secondary metabolism. Initially, plants were the focus of secondary metabolite studies due to thei...

Food additives from fruit and vegetable by-products and bio-residues: a compreh...

Food waste is one of the fundamental issues when it comes to environmental impacts, and this type of waste results in the food’s loss itself, but also that of water, energy, fertilizers, and other resources used for its production. Many vegetable parts are removed from the final product before reaching retail (peels, roots, and seeds), and these raw materials are rich sources of highly valuable molecules such a...

Applying Response Surface Methodology to Phenolic Compounds from Arbutus unedo:...

Arbutus unedo L. is a small Mediterranean plant, being fgound mostly in southern Europe, north eastern Africa, Ireland, Palestine and the Canary Islands, and have been studied for its chemical composition.