Antioxidants from a blueberry beverage may impact plasma vitamins. We examined vitamins/food selection in 12 college athletes during 30 days compared with placebo. Blood was collected before and after exercise at the beginning of the study (day 1) and then after a 30-day period of taking a daily supplemental beverage (day 30). The six trials involved blood that was drawn pre-beverage ingestion/...

Among Vaccinium species, blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are popular in the human diet. In this study, total phenolic, total flavonoid and total monomeric anthocyanin contents in the ethanol-water extracts of blueberry and lingonberry fruits grown wild in the forests in the central region of Poland were assayed. Antioxidant activities of the extrac...

Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) is a native North American crop dependent upon pollen movement by bees for high fruit set and large berries. Commercial blueberry farmsuse honeybees (ApismelliferaL.) to provide pollination services, but there is concern regarding their long-term sustainability as crop pollinators. We conducted a 3-yr study at 15 farms to identify the bee community a...

In this study, as an approach to possible pharmacokinetic interactions between antidiabetic agents and health foods, we investigated the binding of metformin and glibenclamide to aojiru, kurosu, and blueberry extract using a dialysis method. The permeation of metformin from the inner to the outer side of the dialysis tube during 90 min was not altered in the presence of aojiru or kurosu, and sl...

Carvalho M., Matos M., Carnide V., 2014. Fingerprinting of Vaccinium corymbosum cultivars using DNA of fruits. Hort. Sci. (Prague), 41: 175–184. In recent years the production and consumption Vaccinium corymbosum has increased. Highbush blueberry cultivars are divided into three types, northern, intermediate and southern. The traditional methods for classification of highbush blueberry cultivar...

In this study, blueberry essential oil as a core material was microencapsulated with Inulin and β-cyclodextrin at a ratio of 1:5 (core: wall). Oil in water nano-emulsions were prepared by ultrasonic liquid processors and then transformed to encapsulate powder in spray dryer. Dried powder was stored at 4 ˚C in refrigerator for determining moisture, encapsulation efficiency and morphology prop...

COMPARATIVE PHENOLIC CONTENT AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES OFBLUEBERRY (VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM) AFECTED BY IN VITRO DIGESTION

Flavonoids may exert particularly powerful actions on mammalian cognition and may reverse age-related declines in memory and learning. Flavonoids can be modulated neuronal function and there by influencing memory, learning and cognitive function. Dietary supplementation with flavonoid-rich foods, such as blueberry, green tea and Ginkgo biloba lead to significant reversals of age-related deficit...

We investigated color preference, seasonal abundance, spatial distribution and species composition of thrips in northern highbush blueberries, Vaccinium corymbosum L., in New Jersey (USA). White sticky traps were more attractive to thrips compared with yellow or blue traps. Thrips captures using white sticky traps showed that their flight activity begins 20e30 d after the onset of flowering, wi...

background: trichomoniasis is the most common nonviral sexually transmitted human disease that is caused by protozoan trichomonas vaginalis. metronidazole is the selective drug in trichomoniasis treatment. however, the reported cases show an increasing trend of drug resistance. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of mango and blueberry extracts on t. vaginalis. materials and methods: t. vag...