Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre
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2021
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IF 0
Lu-Yao Ma,Rou Xu,Hai-Feng Lin,Ming-Yong Xie,Shao-Ping Nie,Jun-Yi Yin
In this study, okra ( Abelmoschus esculentus (Linn.) Moench) pods (pericarp) obtained after removing seeds and flesh were applied for polysaccharide extraction. The 60 °C water extract polysaccharide (OPW-60) was obtained from okra peel at 60 °C, and then 100 °C water extract polysaccharide (OPW-100) was obtained from the residue at 100 °C. Acid extraction at 60 °C was finally used to obtain the polysaccharide by acid leaching at 60 °C (OPA-60). Then, structural characteristics and antioxidant activities investigations were performed on the extracted polysaccharides. The results showed that monosaccharide composition of three polysaccharides was different. OPW-60 was mainly type I rhamnogalacturonan (RG-I) pectin, while OPW-100 and OPA-60 consist of RG-I and homogalacturoan (HG) pectins. 1 H NMR analysis confirmed the existence of rhamnose and acetyl group among them. The structure diversity resulted in the difference of viscosity, molecular weight, surface morphology and antioxidant activities. OPW-60 exhibited the highest apparent viscosity, which might be attributed to the differences in molecular weight distribution and monosaccharide composition. OPW-60 was most effective in scavenging 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radicals and chelating ferrous ion ability, while OPW-100 exhibited the highest hydroxyl radical scavenging activity. The results showed that polysaccharides with different structure and antioxidant ability could be obtained from okra under different extraction conditions.
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食品科学
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生物化学
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植物学
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Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
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2022
·Vol. 13
·期 14
·12717-12736
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IF 4.05
Gupta Geetika,Baranwal Manoj,Saxena Sanjai,Reddy M. Sudhakara
Banana is one of the most important food crops which is generally planted in tropical countries and has beneficial applications in the food industry. A large amount of by-products such as leaves, inflorescence, pseudostem, and rhizomes serves as a source for different industries. Most of these by-products may serve as an undervalued commodity with a limited commercial value, application and in some cases, it is considered as an agricultural waste. This also paves the way to utilize a huge amount of untapped biomass and resolve some of the environmental issues. Most of the edible bananas are cultivated mainly for their fruits, thus, banana farms could generate several tons of underused by-products and wastes. The present review mainly discusses the utilization of banana by-products such as peels, leaves, pseudostem, pseudostem juice, stalk, and inflorescence in various industries as a thickening agent, alternative source for renewable energy, nutraceuticals, livestock feed, natural fibers, coloring agents, bioactive compounds, and bio-fertilizers. Banana waste serves as a potential source for the production of valuable products and preserves renewable resources and provides additional income to the farming industries.
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农业科学
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生物技术
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环境科学
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Frontiers in Plant Science
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2021
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IF 5.754
Zhang Jiyue,Gao Ningxuan,Shu Chi,Cheng Shunchang,Sun Xiyun,Liu Changjiang,Xin Guang,Li Bin,Tian Jinlong
The kiwi berry (Actinidia arguta) has been widely studied because of its rich phenolic, flavonoid, and vitamin C contents. Numerous reports have demonstrated that fruit peels contain higher phenolic content and antioxidant activity than that of flesh. In this study, the phytochemical content and antioxidant activities of peel and flesh extracts of six kiwi berries were analyzed from four regions (namely, Dandong, Benxi, Taian, and Tonghua) in China. The antioxidant activity was determined using the peroxyl radical scavenging capacity (PSC) and cellular antioxidant activity (CAA) assays. The phenolic, flavonoid, and vitamin C contents of kiwi berry peel were 10.77, 13.09, and 10.38 times richer than that of kiwi berry flesh, respectively. In addition, the PSC and CAA values of kiwi berry peel were higher than those of kiwi berry flesh. The analysis of the separation and contents of phenolics were performed by the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-diode-array detectormass spectrometry/mass (DAD-MS/MS) system, and the results illustrated that protocatechuic acid, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, and quinic acid were the major phenolic compounds. In conclusion, this study indicated that kiwi berry peel contains a rich source of antioxidants. These data are of great significance for the full development and utilization of kiwi berries in these four regions of China to produce nutraceutical and functional foods.
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植物学
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营养学
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食品科学
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Agronomy-Basel
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2024
·Vol. 14
·期 8
·1833
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IF 3.3
Zhixu Zhang,Lu Zeng,Weiming Zhang,Hongbin Ren,Li Liu,Zhuqing Zhang,Xuexiao Zou,Dan Qin,Lijun Ou
Fermented chopped chili pepper (FCCP) is the most important fermented and processed chili pepper product, and most pepper varieties can be processed with obvious flavor differences. Many studies have tried to explain these differences using the results of component analysis, processing technology, the microbes involved, etc., but few have examined the characteristics of these varieties along with the flavor of products. We conducted a physiochemical characteristic analysis of 35 kinds of fresh chili peppers with different genotypes and made fermented products from 17 varieties, using principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) to correlate their components with FCCP products. The results were as follows: (1) Protein, total acids, a* (representation of the object’s red and green color), protopectin, and fruit thickness are the five key indexes that affect the quality of fresh chili peppers the most. (2) Protein, total acids, a*, protopectin, and fruit thickness are also the key indexes that affect the quality of FCCP. (3) Suitable ranges of fresh chili pepper to manufacture FCCP are 1.3–2.0 g/100 g for protein, 2.5–4.0 g/kg for total acids, 10–15 g/100 g for protopectin, 30–39 for a*, and 1.2–2.0 mm for fruit thickness. (4) Sensory appraisal shows crispness is the most important mouthfeel sensation and can decrease during the process. The varieties with the top three scores were A12 (21G675), A13 (20Z663), and A14 (21Z698) with scores of 87.92, 74.08, and 74.15, respectively. The varieties in the top three scores are pod peppers. The PCA and CA showed that pod peppers were the most suitable materials for making FCCP. Our results will benefit others in selecting fresh chili peppers for making FCCP and provide data support for directing processable variety breeding.
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ACS Omega
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2021
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IF 3.512
Lu Liu,Liqin Cao,Hongyan Niu,Jide Wang
The development of water treatment materials using environmentally friendly natural biomasses as substitutes plays an increasingly important role in environmental protection. Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) is often used for the catalytic degradation of dye wastewater, but due to its small particle size, its disadvantage of easy agglomeration prevents it from being fully functional. Herein, we report an efficient method for synthesizing biomasses/ZIF-8 using four different fruit peels as carriers. ZIF-8 nanoparticles are in-situ grown uniformly on their surface. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area of shaddock peel/ZIF-8 was found to be 752.15 m2g–1. After catalytic activity comparison, the loose shaddock peel/ZIF-8 showed the fastest and most significant degradation efficiency of 94% in methylene blue aqueous solution and could be used multiple times through a simple washing process.
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环境科学
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POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
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2020
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IF 4.303
Mingyi Yang,Zisheng Luo,Sunan Gao,Tarun Belwal,Lei Wang,Ming Qi,Zhaojun Ban,Bin Wu,Fengzhong Wang,Li Li
Plant cuticular wax is the first barrier to resist biotic and abiotic stress. However, little is known about the compositional differences between the epicuticular and intracuticular wax in grape berry. The compositional, morphological and functional features of cuticular wax in grape berries of Vitis vinifera cv. ‘Kyoho’, ‘Muscat Hamburg’, ‘Redglobe’, and ‘Zuijinxiang’ were investigated. The total and epicuticular wax of four berries were mainly composed of terpenoids, hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids and esters. Oleanolic acid was the most abundant terpenoid among the four cultivars. Scanning electron microscopy revealed the crystalline flakes structure of the cuticular wax. Additionally, the removal of epicuticular wax accelerated the weight loss, browning, and softening of grape berries, indicating the plastic-wrap-like effect of the cuticular wax on postharvest quality. This study provided the theoretical basis for further application of the fruit wax or waxy analogue.
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园艺学
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SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
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2022
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IF 4.342
Sun Yingjie,Zhang Xinyue,Jiang Yaping,Wang Jihan,Li Bingru,Zhang Xinhua,Li Xiaoan,Li Fujun
Ethylene response factors 2 (ERF2) belongs to the AP2/ERF transcription factor family and plays key roles in ethylene signal transduction . The roles of MdERF2 in apple ( Malus × domestica ) cuticular wax synthesis regulated by ethylene were studied in this work. Result shows that MdERF2 overexpression (ERF2-OE) up-regulated the expression levels of wax-related synthetic genes long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase 2 ( MdLACS2), Wax synthase1 ( MdWSD1), Eceriferum 4 ( MdCER4) and Eceriferum 6 ( MdCER6) , while has no effect on the transcription of Eceriferum 1 ( MdCER1) , and shows different regulation effects on the expression levels of mid-chain alkane hydroxylase 1 ( MdMAH1) between calli and fruit. Furthermore, different MdERF2 expression levels changed the apparent structure of the apple cuticular wax and positively regulated the total wax accumulation. ERF2-OE also increased alkane and alcohol production but decreased acid and ester contents. Thus, ethylene regulated the synthesis of apple cuticular wax at the transcriptional level through MdERF2, thereby altering the wax structure and composition.
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植物学
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分子生物学
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 8.1
Ruimiao Chang,Huichun Wang,Shumian Liu,Yijing Dong,Guangbin Zhang,Anjia Chen,Ruiping Zhang,Yong Li
For rapid separation of quercetin from apple peel, a novel magnetic nanomaterial was prepared by a simple and economical thermal alkaline hydrolysis method in this study. This magnetic nanomaterial was obtained by mixing and then heating magUiO-66-NH 2 (magnetic University of Oslo 66-NH 2 ) with 0.05 mol·L −1 KOH aqueous solution, and was named magUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 (magUiO-66-NH 2 -mixed heating 0.05 ), which has better magnetic properties, thermal stability, pore capacity and average pore size than magUiO-66-NH 2 . The obtained magUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 had strong adsorption capacity for quercetin, and the maximum adsorption capacity was 65.30 mg·g −1 . MagUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 tends to be monolayer-layer adsorption for quercetin, and electron sharing or transfer may occur during the adsorption process. Compared with naringenin, naringin and gallic acid, magUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 showed good recognition ability for quercetin, and the recovery rate was good. After 7 cycles, the removal rate of magUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 for quercetin was 96.3 % of the initial adsorption capacity. A magnetic solid-phase extraction method coupled with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography based on magUiO-66-NH 2 -MH 0.05 was successfully used for rapid separation and determination of quercetin in apple peel. This study will help to discover the experimental law of the treatment of UiO-66-NH 2 nanomaterials by hot alkaline hydrolysis, reveal the reaction mechanism, and expand the application of UiO-66-NH 2 nanomaterials in food analysis.
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食品科学
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分析化学
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MOLECULES
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2024
·Vol. 29
·期 8
·1733
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IF 4.2
Shuo Zhang,Ze Liu,Xinyu Xu,Ruihua Zhao,Shujiang Zhang,Rong Luo
In traditional Chinese medicine, Aurantii Fructus Immatures (AFIs) have been utilized for more than 2000 years. The proportions of different fruit parts are crucial for evaluating AFI quality in China. However, the basis for this statement’s substance is unclear. Differences in quality are intimately correlated with a plant’s metabolite composition. On the basis of a widely targeted metabolome, this study intended to investigate the metabolite composition and evaluate the antioxidant capacity of the peel and pulp of an AFI. Metabolites were identified and quantified by UHPLC-QqQ-MS. To assess their antioxidant ability, DPPH and ABTS assays were carried out. There were 1327 chemical compounds identified by UHPLC-QqQ-MS. After screening the differential metabolites using a multivariate statistical analysis, it was found that there were 695 significant differences in the metabolites between the peel and the pulp. Among them, it was discovered that the content of active ingredients in the peel group was higher than that in the pulp group. Furthermore, the aqueous extracts from the peel showed stronger antioxidant capacities than those from the pulp. The metabolites and antioxidant capacities were significantly different between the peel and the pulp. This study of different fruit parts might provide a guide for AFI quality assessments.
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药理学
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中药学
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代谢组学
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植物科学
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Materials Today Sustainability
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2024
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IF 7.1
Xiao-Ping Zheng,Meng Li,Yu Chai,Ya-Peng Du,Yu-Cang Zhang,Yan-Zhen Zheng
Substituting renewable lignocellulose for fossil fuels is crucial for economic development and environmental protection. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) demonstrate efficacy in facilitating the fractionation of high-purity lignin and cellulose during lignocellulose pretreatment. In this study, agricultural by-product passion fruit husks underwent pretreatment using DESs comprised of choline chloride (ChCl) and organic acids, aiming to efficiently separate cellulose and lignin. Among the various DESs tested, ChCl combined with lactic acid (LA) exhibited optimal performance in the pretreatment process. This combination demonstrated a remarkable synergistic effect in breaking down the lignin-carbohydrate complex bonds and deconstructing passion fruit husks. Characterizations of the cellulose rich solid residues were performed using FTIR, SEM, and XRD techniques, confirming the effectiveness of lignin removal and cellulose retention through the pretreatment. The regenerated lignin exhibited homogeneous distribution and well-preserved structure, as evidenced by 2D-HSQC analysis. Furthermore, it displayed notable antioxidant activity and antibacterial property. The mechanism underlying the pretreatment was elucidated through density functional theory (DFT) calculations, confirming hydrogen-bond interactions between DESs and lignin, which positively contributed to lignin dissolution. Additionally, hydrogen-bond properties between DESs and lignin were also revealed.
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生物化学
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环境科学
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Food Packaging and Shelf Life
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2024
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IF 8.5
Ren Liu,Kejun Li,Liangyue Fang,Wanru Luo,Shuangfei Wang,Chongxing Huang
The global waste rate of fresh meat products is approximately 20 – 30%, with the vast majority occurring in the consumer and retailer sectors. The use of antimicrobial preservative films can reduce fresh retail meat waste. In this study, we propose an environmentally friendly antimicrobial preservative film prepared using the residue of Pouteria campechiana pericarp as a substrate, sodium alginate as the film-forming agent, and nisin as the antimicrobial agent. This film was used to preserve duck breast meat. Nisin in the film slows the spoilage of duck breast meat by inhibiting and killing microorganisms, thereby extending its four-day shelf life. It is important to note that mouse-feeding experiments on the film have proven that it is safe and edible. This strategy provides ideas for the reuse of agricultural waste, and this edible antimicrobial film has great potential for the preservation of fresh meat.
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食品科学
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生物技术
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环境科学
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JOURNAL OF FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
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2021
·Vol. 46
·期 1
·e16206
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IF 2.19
Jun Cheng,Qun Liu,Yucang Zhang,Zhifen Wang,Mengmeng Gao,Siyuan Li
In order to improve the high-value utilization of mango peel and the performance of the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films, mango peel extract (MPE) and PVA were blended to prepare multifunctional composite films in this paper. First, gel permeation chromatography was used to determine the molecular weight distribution of MPE, and the major components of MPE were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Subsequently, different ratios of MPE/PVA composite films were prepared. As indicated by the results, the optical and mechanical properties of pure PVA film are significantly affected by the addition of MPE. With addition of 2.4 wt% MPE, the ultimate elongation of this films is significantly increased by 160.24%. The addition of MPE also enhances the water resistibility and thermal stability of the films and significantly improves its antibacterial and antioxidative properties. These results indicate that the prepared composite films is expected to be widely applied in food packaging. Novelty impact statement The mango peel extract (MPE) was prepared, its molecular weight and composition were characterized, and then the MPE/PVA composite films were further prepared. The MPE improved the elongation at break and water resistance of composite films. The MPE gave excellent UV resistance, antibacterial and antioxidant properties to the composite films.
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食品科学
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材料科学
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植物化学
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危险品化学品经营许可证（带存储）