Codoñer Franch, Pilar; Betoret Valls, María Ester; Betoret Valls, Noelia; López Jaén, Ana Belén; Valls Bellés, Maria Victoria; Fito Maupoey, Pedro(2013)
[EN] Background: A favorable effect over development of
degenerative diseases is derived of an adecuate intake of
fruit and vegetables, mainly due to their antioxidant
compounds
Objectives: The goal of this study was ...
Barrera Puigdollers, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-10-26)
El reciente interés de los consumidores por ingerir alimentos que sean más beneficiosos para su salud ha impulsado en los últimos años el mercado de los alimentos funcionales, entendiéndose por alimento funcional cualquier ...
Castro Giráldez, Marta(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-09-24)
Actualmente, la industria agroalimentaria debe hacer frente a numerosas presiones y retos, de entre los que destaca la innovación como la única posibilidad para afrontar la enorme competencia que caracteriza el mercado. ...
Betalleluz Pallardel, Indira Milagros(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-05-02)
[EN] The present research is framed in the development of two proposals of appetizers as alternatives to existing commercial products, some with negative consequences for health. In a first stage, we studied the feasibility ...
Castagnini, Juan Manuel(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-07-24)
El consumo de arándanos (Vaccinium corymbosum) despierta, actualmente, un gran interés debido a los efectos beneficiosos que tienen para la salud, relacionado con su alto contenido en componentes antioxidantes, principalmente, ...
[EN] Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique has been applied to determine the ethanol concentration in pineapple waste samples. To do this, six different concentrations of ethanol were added to the pineapple ...
García Segovia, Purificación(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-06-25)
Nuestra comunidad universitaria, configurada en la actualidad por más de 33.000 alumnos, 2.000 profesores e investigadores y alrededor de 1.000 profesionales de la administración y servicios, constituye un colectivo de ...
[EN] Purpose
To evaluate the potential of the industrial waste of Rojo Brillante persimmon as a source for value-added products. The antioxidant compounds present in persimmon industrial waste (peel and calyx) and the ...
Conesa Domínguez, Claudia; Fito Suñer, Pedro José; Fito Maupoey, Pedro(International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 2015-01)
[EN] The production of citrus fruit in Spain generates more than 0.5 million tons of waste. This is mainly due to rejects when packing fresh fruit and the waste generated by processing industries. An important challenge ...
Betoret Valls, María Ester; Betoret Valls, Noelia; Vidal Brotons, Daniel José; Fito Maupoey, Pedro(Elsevier, 2011-09)
[EN] The aim of this work is to make an overview on the emerging technologies and traditionally used to develop functional foods. In this way, we classified the technologies used in three main groups and analyzed the ...
[EN] Homogenization is a unit operation that can be incorporated in citrus juice manufacturing to improve chemical and physical characteristics relevant for use in subsequent processing operations. The aim of this study ...
[EN] Purpose The hydrolytic action of Aspergillus niger and Trichoderma reesei commercial cellulases, alone or combined with A. niger hemicellulase, against industrial pineapple waste as a previous step to produce bioethanol ...
[EN] The use of dielectric properties at low frequencies to estimate the progress of pork meat (Longissimus dorsi) ageing was evaluated. Dielectric measurements were perfomed at 140 Hz, 1 kHz and 300 kHz in perpendicular ...
The effectiveness of microwave-assisted sodium hydroxide pretreatments to enhance the saccharification performance of pineapple waste was evaluated. Microwave alkali pretreatments for short exposure times (up to 60 s) ...
Conesa Domínguez, Claudia; Seguí Gil, Lucía; Laguarda-Miro, Nicolas; Fito Maupoey, Pedro(ElsevierInstitttion of Chemical Engineers, 2016-10)
[EN] The pineapple industry generates significant amounts of residues which are classified as lignocellulosic residual biomass. In the present paper, microwaves are studied as a pretreatment to improve pineapple waste ...
A probiotic low humid apple snack with potential effect against the infection caused by Helicobacter pylori has been developed from apple (cv. Granny Smith) and mandarin juice with a high microbial content of Lactobacillus ...
[EN] Osmotic dehydration experiments of Granny Smith apple were carried out in order to model the operation by using a nonlinear irreversible thermodynamic approach Samples were immersed into 65% (w/w) sucrose aqueous ...
[EN] Antioxidant properties of commercial sugarcane-derived products were analysed to study their suitability for being used as functional ingredients. Cane honey, several jaggeries and several brown sugars were selected ...