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Health-Promoting Properties and Potential Application in the Food Industry of C...
Tundis, Rosa; Xiao, Jianbo; Silva, Ana Sanches; Carreiró, Filipa; Loizzo, Monica RosaCitrus is an important genus in the Rutaceae family, with high medicinal and economic value, and includes important crops such as lemons, orange, grapefruits, limes, etc. The Citrus species is rich sources of carbohydrates, vitamins, dietary fibre, and phytochemicals, mainly including limonoids, flavonoids, terpenes, and carotenoids. Citrus essential oils (EOs) consist of several biologically active compounds m...
Plant alkaloids: production, extraction, and potential therapeutic properties
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Cassani, Lucia; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Otero, Paz; Mansoor, Sepidar; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Xiao, JianboAlkaloids are a type of secondary metabolites that can be found in different parts of plants. This group of compounds is diverse and can be divided into nine subgroups: pyridine, tropane, isoquinoline, phenanthrene, phenylethylamine, indole, purine, imidazole, and terpenoids. Most of these compounds are recognized for their anti-inflammatory, antitumor, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activities, among...
Seaweed polysaccharides: emerging extraction technologies, chemical modificatio...
Otero, Paz; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Soria-Lopez, Anton; García-Pérez, Pascual; Fraga-Corral, MariaNowadays, consumers are increasingly aware of the relationship between diet and health, showing a greater preference of products from natural origin. In the last decade, seaweeds have outlined as one of the natural sources with more potential to obtain bioactive carbohydrates. Numerous seaweed polysaccharides have aroused the interest of the scientific community, due to their biological activities and their hig...
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...
Pigment composition of nine brown algae from the iberian northwestern coastline...
García-Pérez, Pascual; Lourenço-Lopes, Catarina; Silva, Aurora; González Pereira, Antía; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Zhao, Chao; Xiao, JianboBrown 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...
Recent advances in biological properties of brown algae-derived compounds for n...
Silva, Aurora; Cassani, Lucia; Grosso, Clara; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Morais, Stephanie L.; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Carpena Rodríguez, MaríaThe increasing demand for nutraceuticals in the circular economy era has driven the research toward studying bioactive compounds from renewable underexploited resources. In this regard, the exploration of brown algae has shown significant growth and maintains a great promise for the future. One possible explanation could be that brown algae are rich sources of nutritional compounds (polyunsaturated fatty acids,...
By-products of walnut (Juglans regia) as source of bioactive compounds for the ...
Chamorro Rivo, Franklin Noel; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Lourenço-Lopes, Catarina; Taofiq, Oludemi; Otero, Paz; Cao, Hui; Xiao, JianboThe scarcity of natural resources and a higher incidence of diseases related to inappropri-ate eating habits have focused research on the search for food and nutraceutical products with func-tional properties that are respectful of the environment. Agro-industrial by-products are a profitable source for obtaining bioactive compounds, with various biological properties, including antioxi-dant, anti-inflammatory,...
Single-cell proteins obtained by circular economy intended as a feed ingredient...
González Pereira, Antía; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Otero, Paz; Soria-Lopez, Anton; Cassani, Lucia; Cao, Hui; Xiao, JianboThe constant increment in the world's population leads to a parallel increase in the demand for food. This situation gives place the need for urgent development of alternative and sustainable resources to satisfy this nutritional requirement. Human nutrition is currently based on fisheries, which accounts for 50% of the fish production for human consumption, but also on agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture. ...
Valorization of kiwi agricultural waste and industry by-products by recovering ...
Chamorro Rivo, Franklin Noel; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Fraga-Corral, María; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Riaz Rajoka, Muhammad Shahid; Barba, Francisco JoseCurrently, agricultural production generates large amounts of organic waste, both from the maintenance of farms and crops (agricultural wastes) and from the industrialization of the product (food industry waste). In the case of Actinidia cultivation, agricultural waste groups together leaves, flowers, stems and roots while food industry by-products are represented by discarded fruits, skin and seeds. All these ...
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...