OBJECTIVES Wild edible plants (WEP) play the dual role of securing food diversity and promoting health in traditional societies. Current simplified dietary habits contribute to increasing population health risks. Since WEP are integral to the diet of traditional communities, identifying their significance as foods to people provides further evidence to conserve them and promote their consumptio...

A method has been developed to prepare fresh forages for in sacco and in vitro incubation by freezing and mincing to achieve a particle size distribution of dry matter (DM) similar to in vivo conditions. The method is described and data presented to indicate losses of nitrogen (N) during in sacco digestion and net yield of ammonia from proteolysis in vitro for 22 fresh and conserved forages. Gr...

The well known medicinal plant, Cichorium intybus L. (Asteraceae) contains dietary oligofructose compounds which have beneficial effect on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, other compounds e.g. polyphenol type derivatives could be responsible for the antioxidant properties reported in several studies before. Male Fischer rats were kept on normal and lipid rich diet supplemented with chicory ex...

objectives: acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition of pancreas with sudden onset, high mortality rate and multiple organ failure characteristics. it has been shown that oxygen free radicals have an important role in development of pancreatitis and its complications. antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-hepatotoxicity and gastroprotective properties of cichorium intybus l. suggest that ...

Evaluations of molecular mechanisms of dietary plants with their active molecules are essential for the complete exploration of their nutritive and therapeutic value. In the present study, we investigated the effect of chicory (Cichorium intybus) salad leaves in inhibiting protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), and evaluated their role in modulating the key markers involved in insulin cell si...

This study aimed to evaluate the rate of ecogenotoxicity caused by traffic emissions at sites in the vicinity of roads and at sites near planned highway construction using a pollen grain abortion assay with higher wild plant species. The relationship between pollen grain abortivity and distance from a road also was assessed. The highest values were found at a distance of 30 m, where the prevail...