Fresh-cut pumpkin is favored by consumers for its environmental protection, safety, and convenience at home abroad. To investigate the effect of different wounding intensities (piece, strip slice, corresponding to 1.90, 3.53 6.29 m2 kg−1) on quality fresh-cut pumpkin, critical indexes involved in reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism, vitamin C-glutathione cycle, phenylpropanoid metabolism m...

Fresh fermented milk products have a limited shelf life that can be extended by vacuum freeze-drying. Cryoprotectants are used to increase the survival of lactic acid microorganisms during The most effective cryoprotectants those natural origin. Literature offers little information on cryoprotective effects fruit and vegetable purees. Therefore, we aimed evaluate effectiveness purees in increas...

For every r ∈ N, let θr denote the graph with two vertices and r parallel edges. The θr-girth of a graph G is the minimum number of edges of a subgraph of G that can be contracted to θr. This notion generalizes the usual concept of girth which corresponds to the case r = 2. In [Minors in graphs of large girth, Random Structures & Algorithms, 22(2):213–225, 2003], Kühn and Osthus showed that gra...

Both hyperglycaemia and hyperlipidaemia are major risk factors for the development of coronary artery diseases and atherosclerosis, and therefore therapeutic drugs must be developed for treatment of them. Pumpkin polysaccharides (PPs) are biomacromolecules with varying bioactivities. In this study, PPs were extracted with commercial thermostable α-amylase, and their hypolipidaemic and hypoglyca...

Abstract Background: The fruit of pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima D.), one genus Cucurbita, family Cucurbitaceae, has antioxidant activity due to the content metabolites including amino acids, fatty alpha-tocopherol, beta-tocopherol, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, and beta-sitosterol. carotenoids tocopherols in activity, reduces skin damage sun exposure, can slow down aging process. Objective: st...