Cacao is attractive for its flavor and taste beneficial effects. Therefore, this commodity promising to be developed as a functional food. Many studies reported the bioactive compounds in cacao beans their health benefits. However, attain desirable taste, curing process of common practice, which fermentation one processes. Despite significance, also alters components beans. To develop food rich...

Nigella sativa (NS) (Ranunculaceae family) is generally utilized as a therapeutic plant all over the world. The seeds of the plant have a long history of use in different frameworks of medicines and food. In Islamic literature, it is considered as one of the greatest forms of therapeutics. It has been widely used to treat nervous system diseases such as memory impairment, epilepsy, neurotoxicit...

Food-protein derived bioactive peptides are short amino acid chains that are inactive within the sequence of the parent protein, but can be released through hydrolysis by proteolytic enzymes. Several physiological effects have been attributed to these peptides, such as blood pressure reduction, scavenging of oxidative compounds, induction of satiety and reduction of cholesterol. Due to their ab...

Many peptides that are released in vitro or in vivo from animal or plant proteins are bioactive and have regulatory functions in humans beyond normal and adequate nutrition. Different health effects have been attributed to food-derived peptides, including antimicrobial properties, blood pressure-lowering (ACE inhibitory) effects, cholesterol-lowering ability, antithrombotic and antioxidant acti...

Electrospinning is a simple and versatile encapsulation technology. Since electrospinning does not involve severe conditions of temperature or pressure or the use of harsh chemicals, it has great potential for effectively entrapping and delivering bioactive compounds. Recently, electrospinning has been used in the food industry to encapsulate bioactive compounds into different biopolymers (carb...

Solanum torvum is a fruit used as food and has medical properties. This study aims to provide an updated understanding of Torvum’s health benefits functional through literature review. The research utilizes electronic databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Nature, Clinical Key, Springer) from July-October 2022. Torvum contains various bioactive components, vitamins, mineral, nutritions. It ...

In addition to supplying essential nutrients, some food proteins can confer additional health benefits beyond nutrition. The presence of bioactive proteins and peptides in different foods is a factor not currently taken into consideration when assessing the dietary quality of food proteins. The range of described physiological benefits attributed to bioactive proteins and peptides is diverse. M...

Background: White button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) is a sensitive agricultural crop whose antioxidant properties are decreased during postharvest storage. In this study, the effect of citric acid dipping treatment on bioactive components and antioxidant properties of sliced button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) was investigated. Methods: Fresh mushrooms soaked in chilled citric acid soluti...