Bell peppers grown in greenhouses in the Mediterranean region are frequently subjected to high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter. The present experiment was designed to quantify the effect of season on pepper fruit growth, maturation and ripening. Three bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivars (Yolo Wonder, California Wonder and E84066) were cultivated in an unheated ...

Capsicum peppers are a fair proportion of total vegetables consumed in daily diets around the world. Whether the pepper type is non-pungent or spicy, the nutritional contribution of peppers to diet and human health is significant. However, the selectivity among seeds, carpal and placental tissues or pericarp tissues, makes a difference in the product harvest and quality of antioxidants and caps...

The possible interplay between cruciferous vegetable consumption, functional genetic variations in glutathione S-transferases (GST) M1, T1, P1, and A1, and colorectal adenomas, was investigated in a Dutch case-control study. The GSTM1 and GSTT1 deletion polymorphisms, and the single nucleotide polymorphisms in GSTP1 (A313G) and in GSTA1 (C-69T) were assessed among 746 cases who developed colore...

BACKGROUND Vegetables, apart from having high nutritional value, also contain considerable amounts of dietary fibre and other components, which may affect physico-chemical properties of fermented milks, e.g. viscosity, texture, susceptibility to syneresis, flavour profile etc. The present work was established to study the effect of selected vegetables addition on the rheological, textural, micr...

A recent meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies suggests that high dietary intakes of flavonols are associated with a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease mortality. The major dietary sources of flavonols such as quercetin, kaempferol, and isorhamnetin are tomatoes, onions, kale, broccoli, celery, apples, and cherries, while catechins are concentrated in tea and red wine. 3 N...

1. The sap of Cotyledon scheideckeri possesses hemolysins for the red corpuscles of different animals. 2. The hemolysins of vegetable sap can be bound by erythrocytes and cannot be separated. 3. A definite quantity of erythrocytes is able to extract from the sap only a part of the hemolysins it contains. 4. The quantity of hemolysins in the sap of different plants is subjected to the same fluct...

This application note describes a fast analytical method for determination of halosulfuron-methyl using QuEChERS and capillary electrophoresis tandem mass spectrometry (CE/MS/MS). The method was developed and validated for halosulfuron-methyl in green and yellow bell peppers. It showed good linearity (R2 > 0.999) from 5.0 to 500 ppb for the analytical curves prepared in background electrolyte a...

Chilli peppers (Capsicum spp.) are important plants usually consumed as food or used a spice medicine. They contain wide range of phytochemicals such capsaicinoids, polyphenols (PPH), carotenoids (CC) and vitamins. This study aimed to quantify the contents capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, total PPH, phenolic acids (PHA) CC, antioxidant activities chilli Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Bhut Jolokia, ...