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Foods, Volume 9, Issue 4

April 2020 - 159 articles

Cover Story: Legumes are rich sources of health-promoting bioactives such as saponins. Epidemiological studies suggest that saponins could be beneficial to human health by lowering cholesterol and playing a preventive role in cancer development. Therefore, they could represent targets for nutritional therapies and development of functional foods. We found that, following the consumption of a soya-rich diet by human volunteers, sapogenol was the major plasma and fecal metabolite. We established that the human gut is the primary site for saponin metabolism to sapogenol by microbiota; consequently, the systemic metabolites of soyasaponin are absorbed from the gut and are bioavailable in plasma as conjugates of sapogenol. The metabolism and bioavailability of biologically active molecules provide key information necessary for the efficient development of functional foods. View this paper
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Articles (159)

  • Review
  • Open Access
221 Citations
16,293 Views
22 Pages

24 April 2020

Nature has generously offered a wide range of herbs (e.g., thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, mint, basil) rich in many polyphenols and other phenolic compounds with strong antioxidant and biochemical properties. This paper focuses on several natural oc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
8,441 Views
16 Pages

Pleurotus Mushrooms Content in Glucans and Ergosterol Assessed by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis

  • Georgios Bekiaris,
  • Dimitra Tagkouli,
  • Georgios Koutrotsios,
  • Nick Kalogeropoulos and
  • Georgios I. Zervakis

24 April 2020

Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy was used to monitor the infrared absorption spectra of 79 mushroom samples from 29 Pleurotus ostreatus, P. eryngii and P. nebrodensis strains cultivated on wheat straw, g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,596 Views
15 Pages

In Vitro Effect of the Common Culinary Herb Winter Savory (Satureja montana) against the Infamous Food Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni

  • Katarina Šimunović,
  • Franz Bucar,
  • Anja Klančnik,
  • Francesco Pompei,
  • Antonello Paparella and
  • Sonja Smole Možina

24 April 2020

The culinary herb Satureja montana, known as winter savory, is an ingredient of traditional dishes known in different parts of the world. As an ingredient of foods it has the potential to improve their safety. In this study, the herb’s activity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,686 Views
10 Pages

A Chemometric Approach to Establish Underlying Connections between Lipid and Protein Oxidation and Instrumental Color and Texture Characteristics in Brazilian Dry-cured Loin

  • Denes K. A. Rosario,
  • Maraysa R. Furtado,
  • Yhan S. Mutz,
  • Bruna L. Rodrigues,
  • Yago A. A. Bernardo,
  • Jéssica D. Baltar,
  • Patricia C. Bernardes,
  • Mario Estevez and
  • Carlos A. Conte-Junior

24 April 2020

This study aimed to use chemometrics to evaluate the influence of lipid and protein oxidation on the color and texture characteristics of Brazilian dry-cured loin (Socol, BDL). Upon exploration using hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), two clusters...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,864 Views
4 Pages

Rapid Methods for Assessing Food Safety and Quality

  • Pierina Visciano and
  • Maria Schirone

23 April 2020

Food safety represents a central issue for the global food chain and a daily concern for all people. Contaminated food by physical, biological or chemical hazards can harm consumers, increasing demand for health services, government expenditure on pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,260 Views
12 Pages

Korean Red Ginseng Suppresses the Expression of Oxidative Stress Response and NLRP3 Inflammasome Genes in Aged C57BL/6 Mouse Ovaries

  • Sungwoo Chei,
  • Hyun-Ji Oh,
  • Hoon Jang,
  • Kippeum Lee,
  • Heegu Jin,
  • Youngsok Choi and
  • Boo-Yong Lee

22 April 2020

Female infertility and subfertility have been increasing in prevalence worldwide. One contributing factor is ovarian function, which is highly age-dependent. Korean red ginseng is widely used as an herbal medicine and has many beneficial properties....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,958 Views
15 Pages

Various Statistical Approaches to Assess and Predict Carcass and Meat Quality Traits

  • Marie-Pierre Ellies-Oury,
  • Jean-François Hocquette,
  • Sghaier Chriki,
  • Alexandre Conanec,
  • Linda Farmer,
  • Marie Chavent and
  • Jérôme Saracco

22 April 2020

The beef industry is organized around different stakeholders, each with their own expectations, sometimes antagonistic. This article first outlines these differing perspectives. Then, various optimization models that might integrate all these expecta...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
739 Citations
71,693 Views
10 Pages

22 April 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19, broadly referred to as “coronavirus”) a global pandemic, while thousands of infections and deaths are reported daily. The current article explores...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
11,612 Views
20 Pages

Review of Research into the Determination of Acrylamide in Foods

  • Mingfei Pan,
  • Kaixin Liu,
  • Jingying Yang,
  • Liping Hong,
  • Xiaoqian Xie and
  • Shuo Wang

22 April 2020

Acrylamide (AA) is produced by high-temperature processing of high carbohydrate foods, such as frying and baking, and has been proved to be carcinogenic. Because of its potential carcinogenicity, it is very important to detect the content of AA in fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,633 Views
29 Pages

22 April 2020

Cultural and ritual uses of animals beyond those for food and medicine should not be dismissed if we wish to understand the pressure that wildlife is under. We documented such uses for the Tangsa and Wancho tribals of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh (India...

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