White mustard plant (Sinapis alba L.) is an easy-to-grow species with low soil requirements and often sown as a catch crop in Northern Europe to reduce nitrate leaching, especially during the winter. There are studies showing high nutritional value of seeds, which have wide application, mainly food production. Still little known about young shoots or plants different cultivars white mustard, al...

Methods were developed for the separation, detection, and quantification of tocopherols and phytosterols by high-performance liquid chromatography with an evaporative light-scattering detector. Four tocopherolsa, fJ, y and o-and four phytosterols-campesterol, fJ-sitosterol, brassicasterol, and stigmasterol-were analyzed in soybean, sunflower, low-erucic acid rapeseed (LEAR) and com oils. The us...

Canola (Brassica rapa) is an oilseed crop that is related to broccoli (Brassica oleracea var Italica) and turnip (Brassica campestris var Rapifera). The name ‘canola’ actually stands for ‘Canadian oil, low acid’. Canola’s low erucic acid content differentiates it from rapeseed (Brassica napus) and is sometimes referred to as LEAR or ‘low erucic acid rapeseed.’ Canola seed contains about 40% oil...

DOSTÁLOVÁ J., HANZLÍK P., RÉBLOVÁ Z., POKORNÝ J. (2005): Oxidative changes of vegetable oils during microwave heating. Czech J. Food Sci., 23: 230–239. The oxidative stabilities of pork lard, sunflower, zero-erucic rapeseed, peanut and high-oleic peanut oils were tested under microwave heating conditions. Vegetable oils and lard were heated in a microwave oven for up to 40 min between 25°C and ...

Phytochemistry and antioxidant activity of Amaranthus viridis L (Green leaf) were undertaken with standard methods. The leaf sample after being screening for phytochemicals, contained tannins, saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, steroids, phenolic compounds, proteins anthraquinones at different concentrations. A further study using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrophotometry (GC-MS) analytic method ...