Plants have been a good source of therapeutic agents for thousands of years; an impressive number of modern drugs used for treating human diseases are derived from natural sources. The Theobroma cacao tree, or cocoa, has recently garnered increasing attention and become the subject of research due to its antioxidant properties, which are related to potential anti-cancer effects. In the past few...

One may wonder why methylxanthines are so abundant in beverages used by humans for centuries, or in cola-drinks that have been heavily consumed since their appearance. It is likely that humans have stuck to any brew containing compounds with psychoactive properties, resulting in a better daily life, i.e., more efficient thinking, exploring, hunting, etc., however, without the serious side effec...

Fungal endophytes were isolated from healthy stems and pods of Theobroma gileri, an alternative host of the frosty pod rot pathogen of cacao. Non-sporulating isolates were grouped into 46 different morphological species according to their colony morphology. Many of these morphospecies were assumed to be basidiomycetes and, therefore, were of particular interest. Basidiomycetous endophytes have ...

Se visitaron 8 huertos de cacao, se identificó presencia agua contaminada del río coatancito y desechos sólidos tóxicos los productores cosechan frutos contaminados, escenario, determinó el planteamiento interrogante, objetivo investigación, hipótesis, método, resultados conclusiones la investigación en ejido Raymundo Enríquez, Tapachula, Chiapas.
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despite the potential of high intensity ultrasound treatment on homogenization of milk and dairy based products, this treatment, under certain conditions, may lead to produce off-odors which can influence its applicability in the food industry. therefore, in this research, cacao flavored milk (chocolate milk) was treated using ultrasound at various levels of power intensity, exposure time, and ...

El área de cultivo cacao (Theobroma L.) se ha venido incrementando debido a que utiliza en la agroindustria, sin embargo, hay escasa información sobre el contenido nutrientes NPK relación los factores altitud y grado acides del cacao. objetivo investigación fue evaluar efectos suelo factor altitudinal, con acidez mucílago cacao, teniendo cuenta esta característica es responsable posteriores pro...

The paper describes the participation of the CACAO project consortium to the TEL@CLEF 2008 task targeted at retrieving relevant items from collections of library catalogues. CACAO proposes the development of an infrastructure for multilingual access to digital content, including an information retrieval system able to search for books and texts in all the available languages. For each monolingu...

The main procyanidins, including dimeric B2 and B5, trimeric C1, tetrameric and pentameric procyanidins, were isolated from unroasted cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao L.) using various techniques of countercurrent chromatography, such as high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC), low-speed rotary countercurrent chromatography (LSRCCC) and spiral-coil LSRCCC. Furthermore, dimeric procyanidins...