Noncommunicable chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and pulmonary, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases are becoming the leading cause of death throughout the world. Unhealthy diet, smoking, lack of exercise, stress, radiation exposure, and environmental pollution are among the common causes of chronic diseases. Most of these risk factors a...

Background About 3-4 % of the population in industrial countries are adversely affected by food allergens [1]. Spice allergy represents 2 % of these cases. Spices are one of the most attractive ingredients to add a unique taste to food and are often used in blends. Spice blends in general consist of a variety of potentially allergenic ingredients which complicates the identification of the part...

Herb and spices namely kesum, ginger and turmeric were extracted by using juice extractor without the additional of solvent. These herb and spices were determined for moisture content and the extracts were analyzed for total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant activity (DPPH radical scavenging assay and FRAP ferric-reducing antioxidant power assay). The yield of kesum, ginger and turmeric ex...

Irradiation is a preservation technology used to improve the safety and hygienic quality of food. Aim of this study was to assess the applicability and validity of the microbiological screening method direct epifluorescence filter technique (DEFT)/aerobic plate count (APC) (EN 13783:2001) for the identification of irradiated herbs and spices. Tests on non-irradiated and irradiated samples of dr...

Spices are normally used for flavor to make food aromatic, hot, savory and sweet. not only add aroma the but also give a lot of health benefits nutritional values. Some spices in Egypt cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, black cumin etc. Many people do know importance its effect on immune system. The main aim is high light role commonly immunity. In this review we list some bakery products that use can ...

Spices play an important role in the chemoprevention and they can be a rich source of biologically active compounds such as triterpenes in the human diet. A method based on high performance thin-layer chromatography combined with densitometry for determination of ursolic and oleanolic acids in some common spices was elaborated. The prechromatographic derivatization with 1% of iodine solution wa...

CULINARY HERBS AND SPICES by REBECCA P. DEARLOVE (Under the Direction of James L. Hargrove, Ph.D.) ABSTRACT Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by a deficiency and/or absence of insulin that is associated with chronic pathology including retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and atherosclerosis. These diabetic complications are caused in part by the build-up of advanced glyca...