introduction: flavored milk is a healthy beverage, nutritious, delicious and thirst elimination by a large group of people, especially children consumed. therefore, the need to find different ways to enhance the nutritional value of milk and its products is of many researchrs’ interest.pomegranate fruits peel is an inedible part obtained during processing of pomegranate juice. pomegranate peel ...

IMPORTANCE Chelation therapy with disodium EDTA has been used for more than 50 years to treat atherosclerosis without proof of efficacy. OBJECTIVE To determine if an EDTA-based chelation regimen reduces cardiovascular events. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial enrolling 1708 patients aged 50 years or older who had experienced...

onion (allium cepa l.) is widely used around the world and it is very important vegetable in the slovak republic (sr). six varieties of onion (karmen, kamal, amika, hector, diamant, white dry) were studied and the contents of selected heavy metals, their polyphenol contents as well as the possible correlations among selected heavy metals in soil and onions were analysed. six soil sampling sites...

Fusobacterium nucleatum plays a key role in creating the pathogenic subgingival biofilm that initiates destructive periodontitis. It is also a common resident of the human gastrointestinal tract and has been associated with inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of green and black tea extracts as well as two of their bioactive components, EGCG an...

conclusions consumption of ole after tumor transplantation reduced the tumor growth. on the other hand, owing to its highly-packed polyphenols, catalase and superoxide dismutase activities in tumor tissue were increased. results treatment with 150 and 225 mg/kg/day of ole reduced the tumor volume and weight (p < 0.05) compared to the first group significantly. it also increased the cat activity...

Polyphenols are secondary metabolites of plants and are generally involved in defense against ultraviolet radiation or aggression by pathogens. In the last decade, there has been much interest in the potential health benefits of dietary plant polyphenols as antioxidant. Epidemiological studies and associated meta-analyses strongly suggest that long term consumption of diets rich in plant polyph...

Free radicals are implicated for many diseases including diabetes mellitus, arthritis, cancer, ageing. etc. In the treatment of these diseases, antioxidant therapy has gained utmost importance. Alcoholic extract of Medicago sativa was studied for its in vitro antioxidant activity using different models viz. DPPH radical scavenging, ABTS radical scavenging, iron chelating activity, lipid peroxid...