Watermelon is known for its good thirst-quenching power; important water content one of major characteristics. This very juicy character the fruit associated with an quantity by-products constitutes a weak point profitability to transformation. Indeed, next sweet, juicy, refreshing pulp exceptional gustative quality, there large number that are not consumed, valorized, and considered as waste. ...

• Bee species, not the two harvesting methods, influenced variation in honey properties. The honeys exhibited antiradical activity, likely derived from phytochemical. Some quality parameters deviated set limits for Apis mellifera honey. We investigated effect of bee species identity and methods on chemical composition activity 53 samples, produced by six stingless western Kenya (Kakamega forest...

The contents of phenolic compounds and radical scavenging activities were assessed in a carrot collection comprising 35 cultivars, landraces and breeding populations. The accessions originated from various world regions and they represented Eastern and Western carrot gene pools. In two-year field trial carrot roots of orange, red, yellow, white and purple color were cultivated, freeze-dried and...

OBJECTIVE Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and venoconstrictor properties have been attributed to extracts from Aesculus hippocastanum. These unusual and diverse properties may be possibly basically linked with ability to scavenge free radicals. MATERIALS AND METHODS The scavenging capacity of dry horse chestnut extract of and escin have been investigated in vitro against superoxide anion radic...