Citrus maxima fruit, the largest of all varieties has been observed to be less consumed compared other fruits. Paucity information/awareness about its nutritive/medicinal properties could a reason for that hence an increased research on nutritive potentials boost consumption. This study was designed evaluate phytochemistry, micronutrient composition and in vitro antioxidant potentials. juice ob...

The aim of the study was to investigate how soft drink and fruit juice consumption in teenagers is associated with life-style, other food choices, eating behaviour and maternal characteristics. A cross-sectional study of 16-year-old girls (n 275) and boys (n 199) and their mothers was undertaken. Questionnaires were used to assess habitual dietary intake, eating behaviour, physical activity, sm...

Background Mathieu was diagnosed with egg allergy when he was 7 months old with complete tolerance at age 3. He subsequently developed an asthma (mite and dog sensitization) that was controlled with inhaled corticosteroids. At age 4, he developed a severe anaphylactic reaction shortly after drinking a fresh fruit juice of carrot and lemon. He drank a homemade juice and after fifteen minutes he ...

Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L.) is an important fruit produced and consumed worldwide it’s excellent source of vitamin C. However, citrus industry in Ethiopia at infant stage; which particularly due to shortage improved adapted cultivars their distribution. Considering these, six sweet were evaluated select adapted, high yielding quality cultivar/s. Different growth, phenological, yield compo...

Examination of the dried peel powder of Citrus kawachiensis, one of the citrus products of Ehime, Japan, showed that it contained naringin (NGIN; 44.02 ± 0.491 mg/g), narirutin (NRTN; 4.46 ± 0.0563 mg/g), auraptene (AUR; 4.07 ± 0.033 mg/g), and 3,5,6,7,8,3',4'-heptamethoxyflavone (HMF; 0.27 ± 0.0039 mg/g). When this dried peel powder was orally preadministered at the dose of 1.2 or 2.4 g/kg/day...

Grapefruit juice is widely recognized to cause important drug interactions via inhibition of CYP3A4, and a wider variety of fruit juices have been shown to inhibit influx transporters in enterocytes known as organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATPs). Fruit juice coadministration significantly reduces the oral bioavailability of numerous important medicines relying on this anion transporte...

OBJECTIVE Identifying at what age infants enrolled in public day care centers are introduced to soft drinks and industrialized juice, as well as comparing the nutritional composition of these goods with natural fruit juice. METHODS A cross-sectional study with the mothers of 636 children (aged 0 to 36 months) from nurseries of day care centers, who were asked questions about the age of feedin...

We determined if winter drought stress could delay flowering and fruit development of immature ‘Valencia’ sweet oranges to avoid young fruit loss during late-season mechanical harvesting. Beginning in December over three consecutive seasons (2007–2009), Tyvek water-resistive barrier material was used as a rain shield groundcover under 13to 15-year-old trees. There were three treatments: 1) drou...