We report the case of a 16-year-old male who, 30 minutes after beginning to play football with previous ingestion of pistachio nuts, experienced an anaphylactic reaction. Prick-by-prick test with roasted pistachios was negative. Specific IgE antibodies to pistachio, cashew nuts and mango were negative. An open oral challenge test with pistachio in resting conditions was negative. Treadmill ergo...

Background: Health is an important pillar of human life and the pistachio is among the nuts which have an impact on human health. The aim of this study was to review the effects of pistachios on human health. Materials and Methods: This was a review study. Data were collected from PubMed and from among articles published from the year 2005 to 15 July 2015 using the keyword pistachio in combi...

Background: Contamination of stored pistachio nuts to Aspergillus section Flavi and aflatoxins (AFs) as well as effective parameters on fungal growth and AF production during storage was assayed. Methods: Twenty one pistachio nut samples were taken from some warehouse of Damghan county. Different parameters of storage, including temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation were recorded...

Agricultural products have a main role in nonoil exports. Pistachio is one of the country's mostimportant export products. Thus, this study is aimed at evaluating and identifying pistachiomarketing in Rafsanjan which is carried out in 2011. This is applied study and its methodology iscorrelation. The statistical population was 120 agricultural extension experts of Rafsanjantownship were studied...

background: aflatoxins (afs) are the most prevalent carcinogenic mycotoxins, produced mainly by aspergillus flavus and a. parasiticus. the general purpose of the present study was to use dehydroacetic acid (dha) and ozonated water (ow) to control a. flavus growth and accumulation of aflatoxin b1 (afb1) in iranian pistachios. methods: three treatment pistachio groups were separately immersed in ...

In this study, we investigated the binding ability of Saccharomayces cerevisiae to aflatoxin in pistachio nuts. The obtained results indicate that S. cerevisiae has an aflatoxin surface binding ability of 40% and 70% (with initial aflatoxin concentrations of 10 and 20 ppb) in the exponential phase. Acid treatments increase this ability to approximately 60% and 73% for the two concentrations of ...

Acrylamide is a carcinogenic and neurotoxic compound defined as heat treatment process contaminant. Due to its health concern, acrylamide formation needed be minimized. The objective of this study examine how much contained in dried almonds (Prunus dulcis), hazelnuts (Corylus avellana), pistachios (Pistacia vera), peanuts (Arachishypogaea), sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus) well pumpkin (Cucu...

This paper examines household purchases of peanuts and tree nuts in the United States using Nielsen Homescan Panel for calendar year 2015. Households located different regions from races ethnicities along with seasonality were important factors affecting propensities to purchase actual quantities purchased. The demand pecans, almonds, walnuts was sensitive price changes. reverse true regarding ...

background: health is an important pillar of human life and the pistachio is among the nuts which have an impact on human health. the aim of this study was to review the effects of pistachios on human health. materials and methods: this was a review study. data were collected from pubmed and from among articles published from the year 2005 to 15 july 2015 using the keyword pistachio in combinat...