Small red beans, commonly called Mexican beans, are a part of the legume family, the genus Phaseolus vulgaris, i.e., dry edible beans or the common bean. In addition to being a rich source of nutrients, small red beans also contain phenolic compounds, such as flavonoids, tannins, phenolic acids, and anthocyanins that have shown a plethora of health benefits against such conditions as obesity, d...

In recent years, the growing popularity and active use of social media services on the web have resulted in massive amounts of user-generated data. With these data available, there is also an increasing interest in analyzing it and to extract information from it. Since social media analysis is concerned with investigating current events around the world, there is a strong emphasis on identifyin...

In this study, the effects of home-processing on the antioxidant properties and in vitro bioaccessibility of red beetroot bioactives were investigated. For this purpose, fresh red beetroot and six different home-processed red beetroot products-including boiled, oven-dried, pickled, pureed, juice-processed, and jam-processed-were analyzed and compared for their total phenolic (TP) and total flav...

Fixation is the key step to improve quality of sea buckthorn leaf tea. Composition and activity are important indexes evaluate Comparing effects fixation methods on components activities provides a theoretical basis for contemporary, controllable, continuous production The six different fixed methods, pan-firing (PF), steaming (SF), boiling water (BF), hot air (HF), microwave (MWF), infrared (I...

This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of triptolide (TP) on male rats after oral polymer nanoparticle delivery (TP-loaded poly(D,L-lactic acid) nanoparticles, TP-PLA-NPs). Free TP and TP-PLA-NPs were administered orally at doses of 0.2 and 0.6 mg/kg for 15 days and rats were sacrified at end of the dosage period. All rat testes were weighed, fructose content and activity of acid p...

Pr0.5Ca0.5Mn1−xCrxO3 (x= 0.015-0.05) undergoes an insulator-metal (I-M) transition below a temperature Tp driven by percolation of ferromagnetic metallic clusters in a charge ordered insulating matrix. Surprisingly, the I-M transition in these compounds is unstable against thermal cycling : Tp decreases and the resistivity at Tp increases upon temperature cycling between a starting temperature ...

OBJECTIVE To minimise the intake of industrial artificial trans fat (I-TF), nearly all European countries rely on food producers to voluntarily reduce the I-TF content in food. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of this strategy on I-TF content in prepackaged biscuits/cakes/wafers in 2012-2013 in 20 European countries. DESIGN The I-TF content was assessed in a market ba...