In today’s medical world, antibiotic toxicity and multidrug resistant pathogens are the two greatest challenges which require immediate attention. In the present study, the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of spices have been investigated. The antibacterial activity of eight common Indian spices was analyzed against nine clinical pathogenic bacteria by Kirby Bauer Disc Diffusion method an...

Aim of the present study was the comparative evaluation of the effect of ground oregano, anise and olive leaves as feed additives on performance and some egg quality characteristics of laying Japanese quails. A total of 189 Coturnix japonica quails (126 females and 63 males), 149 days old, were randomly allocated into seven equal groups with three subgroups of 9 birds each (6 females and 3 male...

Edible films (EFs) have gained great interest due to their ability to keep foods safe, maintaining their physical and organoleptic properties for a longer time. The aim of this work was to develop EFs based on a chitosan-zein mixture with three different essential oils (EOs) added: anise, orange, and cinnamon, and to characterize them to establish the relationship between their structural and p...

In this study, the effect of chitosan film (CF) with different concentrations of anise essential oil AEO (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2%) on the quality of chicken burger during chilled storage (4 + 1°C) were examined over a period of 12 days. For this purpose, at the first, the physical and mechanical properties of the produced films were studied. Then, the chicken burger was covered with the produced ...

The Orcutt-Killick Lithographing Company created this advertising card image (above) for another Chicago firm, Emmert Proprietary Company (EPC), the makers of Winchell’s Teething Syrup. Now imagine yourself back in the 1890s, startled awake in the middle of the night by your inconsolably crying infant. Bespectacled and wearing your collared nightshirt, stockings, and slippers, you reach for thi...

Photo-oxygenation of trans anethole (1), the main constituent of anise essential oil, using tetraphenylporphyrine (TPP) as a singlet oxygen sensitizer in chloroform gave 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (p-anisaldhyde) (2), 2-(4-methoxyphenyl)propan-2-ol (3) as well as erythro and threo 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)propane-1,2-diol (4a, 4b). The structures of the photo-oxygenation products were elucidated by spectr...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin, mainly produced on grapes by Aspergillus carbonarius, that causes massive health problems for humans. This study aims to reduce the occurrence of OTA by using the ten following essential oils (E.Os): fennel, cardamom, anise, chamomile, celery, cinnamon, thyme, taramira, oregano and rosemary at 1 µL/mL and 5 µL/mL for each E.O.As a matter of fact, their effects...

The typical spices used in winter include nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and anise. These spices contain two groups of chemicals, the allylbenzenes and their isomers, the propenylbenzenes. It was suggested 40 years ago by Alexander Shulgin that these substances act as metabolic precursors of amphetamines. The biotransformation of these precursors to nitrogen-containing metabolites is reviewed. These r...

Antibacterial activity of crude extracts of culinary spices like Aniseed (Pimpinella anisum), Star anise (Illicum verum Hook fruit) and Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) against some of the common fish bacterial pathogens like Aeromonas hydrophila, Aeromonas salmonicida and Edwardsiella tarda were explored by finding minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). A twofold serial dilution of compounds ...