[EN] This study exploits sunflower hulls that are by-product from food industry for the extraction of valuable antioxidant compounds that can be used to produce antioxidant food packaging material based on starch. Fast and ...
Villanueva, Gloria; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(MDPI, 2024-04-09)
[EN] Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) breeding for fruit quality has mostly focused on visual traits and nutritional and bioactive compounds, including chlorogenic acid. However, higher contents of chlorogenic acid may lead ...
[EN] Food wastes have traditionally been considered as dead-end materials; however, recent international, national, and regional policies strongly promote the use of these wastes as potential resources. This change of ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; López Gresa, Mª Pilar; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Torres Vidal, Cristina; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Belles Albert, José Mª; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(American Chemical Society, 2013-09-18)
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) varieties with increased levels of phenolics in the fruit present enhanced functional quality, but may display greater fruit flesh browning. We evaluated 18 eggplant accessions for fruit total ...
Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Whitaker, B. D.; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Blasco Villarroya, Manuel; Gramazio, P.; Stommel, J. R.(Association of Applied Biologists, 2013)
Solanum incanum, the wild ancestor of eggplant, Solanum melongena, has been considered as a source of variation for high content of phenolic acid conjugates in breeding programmes aimed at improving the functional quality ...
[EN] Modern Solanum melongena varieties have been developed to improve the content of phenolics, sugars, and nutritionally relevant minerals in fruit. However, fruit composition might be altered due to abiotic stresses ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Hurtado Ricart, María; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2013)
[EN] Demand among consumers for fruits and vegetables with improved contents in bioactive compounds is increasing. In particular, a lot of attention is being paid to phenolic compounds, as they have been reported to present ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Castillo Lorenzo, Elena; Knapp, S.; Meyer, R.M.; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago(BioMed Central, 2014-12-10)
Background
Eggplant is a powerful source of polyphenols which seems to play a key role in the prevention of several human diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Chlorogenic acid is the polyphenol most present in eggplant, ...
Gramazio, Pietro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-11-24)
[EN] The high content in phenolic compounds and mostly chlorogenic acid (CGA), in the fruit flesh of eggplant (Solanum melongena) confers nutraceutical properties to this crop. Solanum incanum, a wild species closely related ...
Junqueira, João Renato; Corrêa, Jefferson; Mendonça, Kamilla; Mello-Júnior, Ronaldo Elias; Carvalho, Lucas(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of vacuum application on the phenolic acid content of osmodehydrated eggplant, carrot and beetroot samples. The contents of catechins and chlorogenic acid were ...
Kaushik, Prashant; Gramazio, Pietro; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Increasing the content in bioactive phenolics in the eggplant (Satanum melongena) fruit is of interest, but may result in enhanced browning. We evaluated six varieties of S. melongena, 22 accessions of wild related ...
Pérez-Esteve, Édgar; Salata, Andrzej; Barat Baviera, José Manuel; Stepniowska, Anna; López Galarza, Salvador Vicente; Nurzynska-Wierdak, Renata(Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie, 2018)
[EN] Globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus L. var. scolymus (L.) Fiori) is an edible herbaceous perennial plant that plays an important economic role in Mediterranean agriculture. In recent years, extensive research, which ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Cuñat, A.M.; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Andújar Pérez, Isabel(MDPI, 2014-10)
Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon) eggplants are important vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa. Few studies have been made on these crops regarding the diversity of phenolic content and their biological ...
[EN] The influence of vegetation period length of cardoon plants (Cynara cardunculus L.) on herb yield and its pharmacological value conditioned by chemical contents in air dried herb was examined in the research. The ...