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Open AccessRecycling industrial food wastes for lipid production by oleaginous yeasts Rhodosporidiobolus azoricus and Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosum
Microbial lipids have been emerging as a sustainable alternative to vegetable oils and animal fat to produce biodiesel and industrial relevant chemicals. The use of wastes for microbial processes can represent...
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EPR free radical scavenging activity on superoxide, hydroxyl and tert–butyl hydroperoxide radicals by common hydrophilic antioxidants: effect of mixing and influence of glucose and citric acid
Three oxygen-free radicals, superoxide anion (·O2−), hydroxyl radical (·OH) and tert–butyl hydroperoxide radical (t–BuOO·) were trapped with 5,5–Dimethyl–1–pyrroline N–oxide (DMPO) by Electronic Paramagnetic Reso...
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Quality assessment of dried organic bell peppers through composition and sensory analysis
A comprehensive quality evaluation was performed on dried sweet bell pepper samples obtained from two years of production, two genotypes and two drying technologies, using one conventional and two organic crop...
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Dissection of heterotic, genotypic and environmental factors influencing the variation of yield components and health-related compounds in chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum)
Chilli pepper is a widely spread vegetable crop and one of the main spices used all over the world. Its properties comprise high antioxidant capacity and content of several healthy-related compounds including ...
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Influence of organic cultivation and sampling year on quality indexes of sweet pepper during 3 years of production
Two genotypes of sweet pepper were studied regarding their profile of quality indexes related to yield, taste and healthy components. The peppers were grown with three different types of cultivation, one conve...
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Potential of delphinidin-3-rutinoside extracted from Solanum melongena L. as promoter of osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 function and antagonist of oxidative damage
Increasing evidence suggests the potential use of natural antioxidant compounds in the prevention/treatment of osteoporosis. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of purified delphinidin-3-rutin...
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Genetic and environmental factors underlying variation in yield performance and bioactive compound content of hot pepper varieties (Capsicum annuum) cultivated in two contrasting Italian locations
Hot pepper (Capsicum spp.) is an economically considerable crop, particularly appreciated for its nutritional properties and antioxidants content. Levels of the latter depend on several factors including the cult...
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Methods used to evaluate the peroxyl (ROO·) radical scavenging capacities of four common antioxidants
Different methods that are used to measure peroxyl radical (ROO·) scavenging capacity were used in model systems containing four common antioxidant compounds: ascorbic acid, cysteine, gallic acid and Trolox, a wa...
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Oxygen radical scavenging capacity of phenolic and non-phenolic compounds in red and white wines
The aim of the present study was the evaluation of the antioxidant content in phenolic and non-phenolic extracts of ten wine samples, trying to elucidate the potential role of unusual antioxidant compounds. Sa...
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Evaluation of Fruit Aroma Quality: Comparison Between Gas Chromatography–Olfactometry (GC–O) and Odour Activity Value (OAV) Aroma Patterns of Strawberries
Gas chromatography–olfactometry (GC–O) is based on the use of human assessors as a sensitive and selective detector to ascertain odour-active volatile compounds in a sample extract, whereas odour intensity val...
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Effect of osmosis time on structure, texture and pectic composition of strawberry tissue
The effect on strawberry tissue of an osmotic step applied at atmospheric pressure for different lengths of time, was analysed. In this work, the specific influence of osmotic treatments with sucrose solutions...
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Effect of roasting on the radical scavenging activity of cocoa beans
The free-radical scavenging activity of cocoa samples subjected to different roasting treatments has been determined. The samples (raw, pre-roasted and roasted) were separated into four molecular weight fracti...
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Open AccessOpen field trial of genetically modified parthenocarpic tomato: seedlessness and fruit quality
Parthenocarpic tomato lines transgenic for the DefH9-RI-iaaM gene have been cultivated under open field conditions to address some aspects of the equivalence of genetically modified (GM) fruit in comparison to co...
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Chemiotropic behavior of female olive fly (Bactrocera oleae GMEL.) onOlea europaea L
An interpretation is given of a number of observations on the chemiotropic behavior ofBactrocera oleae in connection with olive maceration water and the fly's return to the olive groves after the first summer rai...
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Olea europaea Volatiles attractive and repellent to the olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae, Gmelin)
Comparative study of the headspace (HS) composition from olive leaves, olives of varying degrees of ripeness, and crushed olives revealed significant quantitative and qualitative differences. Three different m...
