In a broad sense, the name coffee is used not only for fruits of the coffee tree (cherry coffee), but also for processed fruit such as green (raw) coffee, roasted coffee, instant coffee, and coffee as a beverage. The grading and quality evaluation of coffee beans is based on uniformity, purity, the absence of damaged beans, and decisively on the organoleptic properties of the beverage prepared ...

The health benefits of plant food-based diets could be related to both integrated antioxidant and antiinflammatory mechanisms exerted by a wide array of phytochemicals present in fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices. Therefore, there is mounting interest in identifying foods, food extracts and phytochemical formulations from plant sources which are able to efficiently modulate oxidative and infl...

We aimed to determine the effects of food herbs and spices on several gene expressions. Some herbs and/or spices are found to have a potent transcriptional suppressor activity for the tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases 1 (TIMP-1) gene. The in vitro effect of the herb Sage ethanol extract on the expression of TIMP-1 was confirmed by reverse transcriptasepolymerase chain reaction (RT-P...

introduction there is a growing interest in determining the concentration of various elements in food spices. in the present study, the instrumental neutron activation analysis (inaa) was employed to measure the trace elements in 11 commonly food spices consumed in tehran, iran. materials and methods the levels of k, mn, na, cl, v, br, al, and as were determined and their effects on human healt...