The demand for natural cosmetics has steadily increased in recent years. However, challenges occur especially quality preservation regarding oxidative spoilage of cosmetic products, as the use synthetic preservatives and antioxidants is limited. Therefore, it important to find nature-based ingredients ensure shelf life formulations. As a result, potential seen plant-based antioxidant extracts. ...

Plant powders with antimicrobial properties can be used in food manufacturing and must comply the demands of consumers regarding microbiological safety, nutritional value, sensory foods. The present study aimed to assess microbial growth inhibitory ability different plant powders, including by-products horticultural primary processing (e.g., pomace) raw cooked minced pork. total counts aerobic ...

Laboratory experiments tested whether two economically-important sibling species of tephritid fruit flies have evolved distinct egg-laying responses to chemical stimuli on the fruits of their respective hostplants. The egg-laying preferences displayed by apple maggot flies, R. pomonella, and blueberry maggot flies, R. mendax, on artificial fruits treated with apple and blueberry extract paralle...

Altogether 30 different basidiomycetes were grown submerged in liquid culture media using seven different by-products of the food industry as the only carbon source. Seven fungus/substrate combinations revealed interesting flavour profiles. Culture supernatants of Tyromyces chioneus grown on apple pomace were extracted, and the aroma compounds were analysed by gas chromatography-olfactometry (G...

Agri-food processing waste and by-products are important to be valued in an integral unit the main process. This study focused on showing potential valorization of apple pomace as substrate towards valuable products by a biotechnological mean. Apple was fermented B.subtilis at 37 °C, 150 rpm, 72 h. Reducing sugars, total phenol content α-amylase activity were followed throughout fermentation. T...

in this study, the concentrations of 25, 375 and 500 ml l -1 of cola+ 2000 mg l -1 of peppermint essence and concentrations of 30, 45 and 60 ml l -1 of apple extract +2000 mg l -1 rosemary essence on alstroemeria cut flowers (cv. balance) were investigated to verify the use of natural ingredients in flowers preservative solutions. this experiment was conducted in the laboratory of gorgan univer...

BACKGROUND Murraya exotica L., a member of family Rutaceae is rich in biologically active secondary metabolites and also known for its ethnobotanical importance. With this in mind, the plant was chosen and leaves were extracted sequentially to obtain ethanol, hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and aqueous fractions. The extract/fractions were evaluated for total phenolic and flavonoid...