Archaeological excavations in the Areni-1 cave complex in southeastern Armenia revealed installations and artifacts dating to around 4000 cal. BCE that are strongly indicative of wine production. Chemical evidence for this hypothesis is presented here using a new method to detect the anthocyanin malvidin that gives grapes and pomegranates their red color. Using solid phase extraction (SPE) and ...

Dear Editor, We read an interesting article entitled: “Cytokeratin7 expression in gastric and colorectal adenocarcinoma: Correlation with prognostic factors” in the Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2015: 6 (4). We admire the authors of above paper for their valuable paper. In this article, it has been explained that in Iran, gastric and colorectal adenocarcinoma are the second and the fift...

Mechanical damage is a threat to both food security and sustainability. Bruising the most common type of mechanical damage, it causes huge economic loss due rejection fresh produce downgrading appearance quality by consumers. Therefore, this study aims examine effect bruising during postharvest handling using pendulum test technique. Pomegranate fruit were bruised once at two impact levels (1.1...