Protein quality of four indigenous edible insect species in nigeria
Publication date: Available online 26 May 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Oibiokpa Florence Inje, Akanya Helmina Olufunmilayo, Jigam Ali Audu, Saidu Abubakar Ndaman, Egwim Evans Chidi. Food security is a serious concern particularly for developing countries. To overcome hunger and malnutrition there is a need for increased research towards finding alternative and cheaper sources of nutrients. Insects have been reported to be rich in protein and could be alternative sources of protein. This work was therefore designed to determine the protein quality of moth caterpillar, termite, cricket and gr...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - May 26, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Identification of sea snake meat adulteration in meat products using PCR-RFLP of mitochondrial DNA
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Sunutcha Suntrarachun, Lawan Chanhome, Montri Sumontha PCR-RFLP based technique for identification of sea snakes in Thai waters was achieved by developing species-specific markers. To distinguish between sea snake species, the PCR products of cytochrome b (Cyt b), 12S and 16S rRNA were sequenced and cut with different restriction endonuclease, Alu I and Hinf I. Each enzyme generated different - sized fragments which specific to Cyt b of eight sea snake species. However, the identical pattern was found among Hydrophis group...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - May 19, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Development of a reversed dispersive based graphene functionalized with multiwalled carbon nanotubes for detection of β2-agonists in pork by high-performance liquid chromatography
Publication date: Available online 29 March 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Ying-Wen Qian, Xia Hong, Cai-Xia Yuan, Xin-Kui Zhou, Hai-Ning He, Dong-Shuai Wang A reliable and inexpensive pretreatment procedure in the determination of β2-agonists in pork was developped. The procedure used a nanocomposite of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) functionalized with graphene (rGO) as the reversed dispersive sorbent. It was analyzed after purification by high-performance liquid chromatography, the extraction time and the properties of the nanocomposite were optimized. Under optimized conditions, pre...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - March 30, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Nutritional and medicinal characteristics of Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) for applications in healthcare industry by artificial cultivation: A review
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Dong He, Wenming Zhu, Wen Zeng, Jun Lin, Yang Ji, Yi Wang, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Daoquan Zhao, Nan Su, Xin-Hui Xing Andrias davidianus, i. e. Chinese giant salamander (CGS), is one of the largest and oldest amphibians existing in the world and is also one of the valuable biological resources of China. Wild CGS has been threatened with extinction in the past decades due to over capturing, deterioration of natural environment, the slow breeding and growth of the wild species in nature. However, in the past twenty y...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - March 13, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Biochemical and histopathological profiling of Wistar rat treated with Brassica napus as a supplementary feed
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2017 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Kazi Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Nasrin Tamanna, Md. Anwarul Haque Metabolic changes together with cardiovascular and hepatic factors are related to the development of diseases like myocardial lipidosis, heart disease, and profound toxicity. The aim of this animal study is to determine the effects of high erucic acid containing rapeseed oil (Brassica napus L.) varieties on liver, kidney and heart muscles in Wistar rats. Male Wistar rats were divided into three groups where each group containing four rats. Group A was consider...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - March 8, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Glycoalkaloids and phenolic compounds in three commercial potato cultivars grown in Hebei, China
Publication date: Available online 24 February 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Cheng-Yu Jin, Hong Liu, Dan Xu, Fan-Kui Zeng, Yu-Ci Zhao, Hai Zhang, Gang Liu In order to investigate the food nutrition and safety of potato, the objective of the present study is to quantify glycoalkaloids (α-chaconine and α-solanine) and phenolic compounds in three potato cultivars, namely, Russet Burbank, Atlantic, and Shepody, grown in Hebei, China, and these two classes of biologically active compounds in commercial dehydrated potato flakes were also investigated. The total glycoalkaloid levels in whole po...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 25, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Chicken Collagen Hydrolysates Differentially Mediate Anti-inflammatory Activity and Type I Collagen Synthesis on Human Dermal Fibroblasts
Publication date: Available online 24 February 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Marina Offengenden, Subhadeep Chakrabarti, Jianping Wu Collagen is a major extracellular matrix protein. Given the potential anti-inflammatory and antioxidant profiles of these bioactive compounds, there has been increasing interest in using collagen derived peptides and peptide-rich collagen hydrolysates for skin health, due to their immunomodulatory, antioxidant and proliferative effects on dermal fibroblasts. However, all hydrolysates are not equally effective in exerting the beneficial effects; hence, further rese...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 25, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Biochemical and histopathological profiling of Wistar rats treated with Brassica napus as a supplementary feed
The objective of the present study is to determine the effects of high erucic acid containing two rapeseed oil (Brassica napus L.) varieties on liver, kidney and heart muscles in Wistar rats. Male Wistar rats were divided into three groups where each group containing four rats. Group A was considered as control diet group, while Group B rapeseed wild oil group and Group C rapeseed hybrid oil group were considered as experimental diet groups. The levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) and creatinine of two experimental groups were si...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 16, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Antiviral effect of polyphenol rich plant extracts on herpes simplex virus type 1
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Sayed A. El-Toumy, Josline Y. Salib, Walaa A. El-Kashak, Christel Marty, Gilles Bedoux, Nathalie Bourgougnon Evaluation of the anti-herpetic activity of 25 Egyptian plants extracts was investigated in vitro in this study. The antiviral activity against Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1) was done on Vero cell lines by cell viability. Only two plants extracts; namely Euphorbia coopire (Euphorbiaceae) and Morus alba (Moraceae) showed potent anti-herpetic activity and six other extracts showed moderate inhibition. In ...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 16, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Alterations of attention and impulsivity in the rat following a transgenerational decrease in dietary omega-3 fatty acids
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Joachim Hauser, Ewelina Stollberg, Andreas Reissmann, Ivo Kaunzinger, Klaus W. Lange (Source: Food Science and Human Wellness)
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 16, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Multiple action sites of ultrasound on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus
In this study, the action modes of ultrasound on both Gram-negative and Gram-positive microorganisms were estimated. From colony results, ultrasound acted as an irreversible effect on both Eshcerichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus without sublethal injury. The result in this study also showed that a proportion of bacteria subpopulation suffered from serious damage of intracellular components (e.g. DNA and enzymes) but with intact cell envelopes. We speculated that the inactivated effects of ultrasound on microbes might more than simply completed disruption of cell exteriors. Those microbial cells who had not enter the val...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - February 16, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.: A vegetable with diverse pharmacological properties
Publication date: Available online 4 January 2018 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Mahia Khandaker, Saleha Akter, Mohammad Zafar Imam Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. is a climber of Cucurbitaceae family mainly found in tropical Asia. The fruit is widely consumed as a vegetable and different parts of this plant are used in the traditional medicine to treat various types of human ailments. In this review, we critically analyzed and presented the scientific studies on T. dioica available in three electronic databases viz. PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Our aim was to find the scientific basis of t...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - January 5, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Assessment of the inhibitory effects of sodium nitrite, nisin, potassium sorbate, and sodium lactate on Staphylococcus aureus growth and staphylococcal enterotoxin A production in cooked pork sausage using a predictive growth model
This study was conducted to analyze the effects of sodium nitrite, nisin, potassium sorbate, and sodium lactate against Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) growth and staphylococcal enterotoxins(SEs) production in cooked pork sausage by inoculating sausage samples containing preservative with an S. aureus strain producing staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) and then storing them at 37°C for 36h. Samples were analyzed every 3h to count the S. aureus colonies and to detect SEA. The modified Gompertz model was used to describe S. aureus growth in the samples under various conditions, and the preservatives with a significant anti...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - December 24, 2017 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Biochemical and histopathological profiling of Wistar rats treated with rapeseed (Brassica napus) oil
The objective of the present study is to determine the effects of high erucic acid containing two rapeseed oil (Brassica napus L.) varieties on liver, kidney and heart muscles in Wistar rats. Male Wistar rats were divided into three groups where each group containing four rats. Group A was considered as control diet group, while Group B rapeseed wild oil group and Group C rapeseed hybrid oil group were considered as experimental diet groups. The levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) and creatinine of two experimental groups were si...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - December 24, 2017 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Fluorescence sensor based on glutathione capped CdTe QDs for detection of Cr3+ ions in vitamins
Publication date: Available online 20 December 2017 Source:Food Science and Human Wellness Author(s): Chi-Fang Peng, Ying-Ying Zhang, Zhi-Juan Qian, Zheng-Jun Xie In this work, glutathione capped CdTe QDs (GSH-QDs) were prepared through a one-pot process and found to be quenched by Cr3+, Ag+ and Cu2+ ions. Cr3+ and chromium (III) picolinate could be quantitatively measured after masking Cu2+ and Ag+ ions by sulfide. Under optimal conditions, linear quenching was observed for Cr3+ in the ranges of 0–2.0μM and the limit of detection was 3.0nM. The recoveries for Cr3+ in vitamin supplements obtained were from 92.5% t...
Source: Food Science and Human Wellness - December 21, 2017 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
