scholarly journals Functional bread enreached with regional bioactive food additives

2022 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
A. S. Khamitsaeva ◽  
V. V. Sadovoy ◽  
Z. G. Ramonova ◽  
P. N. Semenov ◽  
A. O. Nartikoeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sorption Capacity ◽  
Robinia Pseudoacacia ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Pectic Acid ◽  
Corrective Effect ◽  
Functional Bread

The scientific work presents materials of theoretical and experimental substantiation of the use of regional bioactive food additives, namely wild plants of the legume family (Fabaceae), permitted for use in the food industry: sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis), red meadow clover (Trifolium pratense), white acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) in the production of functional foods [1]. Experimental studies of the safety indicators of food wild-growing plants (FWP) have been carried out. It was found that the studied FWP growing in ecologically clean areas of the North Ossetia-Alania are distinguished by a low mass fraction of toxic substances. Two fractions of cellulose were investigated: 1 - water-soluble (pectic acid, pectin, methylcellulose); 2 - water-insoluble (protopectin, cellulose, hemicellulose). The increased content of dietary fiber in WGP powders has been established, corresponding to the physiological norms of satisfying the daily requirement for FWP and, in this regard, indicating the expediency of using functional food in formulations for the prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus, obesity, and atherosclerosis. The sorption capacity of WGP powders with respect to lead has been investigated. All studied powders of WGP modification products are characterized by high sorption capacity. The technologies of flour products with the addition of FWP powders have been developed. The results of clinical and preclinical studies of the developed functional bread show a corrective effect of glycemic blood parameters, as well as a decrease in the lead content in the blood of fed laboratory rat pups by almost two times, compared with the control.

New Carbohydrate-Based Polymeric Materials

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Callstrom ◽  
Mark D. Bednarski
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Natural Polymers ◽  
Water Soluble Polymers ◽  
Soluble Polymers ◽  
Chemically Modified ◽  
Stereochemical Control ◽  
Natural Polysaccharide ◽  
Image Position

The total world production of water-soluble polymers is estimated to be greater than five million tons per year. Water-soluble polymers are most conveniently described according to their origin in three classes (see Structures 1-6):∎ Natural polymers, including starch (1) and cellulose (2);∎ chemically modified natural polymers, including, for example, hydroxyethyl starch (3) and cellulose acetate (4); and∎ synthetic polymers, the most important of which are polyacrylamide (5) and polyvinyl alcohol (6), (commonly composed of both alcohol and acetate groups as shown). The widespread use of these materials is due to both their availability and the range of useful physical properties found in the various natural and chemically modified natural polymers.Of the commercial water-soluble polymers, approximately 50–80% are based on natural polysaccharide materials. One of the primary reasons that these materials find such widespread use is the dramatic response of their properties to changes in their functionality and stereochemistry: chemical modification or the combination of polysaccharides with other polymeric materials has yielded materials whose applications range from explosives to food additives. Although efforts directed at controlling the properties of polysaccharides has resulted in a wide variety of useful materials, we felt control of the composition of carbohydrate-based polymers at the molecular level would provide materials with properties superior to those derived from natural and chemically modified polysaccharide materials.Our approach for the preparation of new carbohydrate-based materials is to use the carbohydrate as a template for the introduction of desired functionality with complete regiochemical and stereochemical control by both chemical and enzymatic methods (Scheme I).

scholarly journals TWO-STEP CROSSLINKING OF PVP/GEL NANOFIBERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
H.K. Güler ◽  
F.C. Çallıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Diameter ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Diameter Distribution ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
Crosslinking Process ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Ft Ir ◽  
Ir Analysis ◽  
Gel Polymers

In this study, it was achieved that crosslinking of PVP/GEL nanofibers with two-steps. Crosslinking is a process highly important for water-soluble polymers in terms of application areas and mechanical properties. Firstly, crosslinking of PVP polymers experimental studies were carried out via heat treatment at different temperatures and times. Then, GEL polymers were crosslinked with GTA vapour at different times. Morphological analysis was carried out via SEM images and chemical characteristics were determined via FT-IR analysis. Moreover, after the crosslinking process, SD and WL values were calculated. All results showed that before crosslinking of SEM images, nanofibers were smooth, fine and without beads. The average fiber diameter is 196 nm and the fiber diameter distribution is quite uniform. After crosslinking of SEM images, it is expected that all nanowebs will turn from fibrous surfaces to membranous. Generally, SD and WL values decrease with crosslinking time increase. According to all of the SEM images, SD and WL values, optimum conditions were determined for PVP as 4 hours at 180oC and for GEL as 24 hours. Lastly, the presence of PVP and GEL polymers in the nanofiber structure was verified chemically with FT-IR analysis.

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF THE RANGE CONCEPT THE FUNCTIONAL BREAD OF MASS RANGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Irina Pushmina ◽  
Olga Kolman ◽  
Irina Koyupchenko ◽  
Mihail Kudryavtsev
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Combinatorial Analysis ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Statistical Research ◽  
Functional Types ◽  
Functional Bread

Determination of the directions of formation of the contemporary level of quality and assortment concept of the species diversity of functional bread of mass assortment with the use of wild berry plants Ericaceae for health improving nutrition. The materials were questionnaires of a survey of potential consumers of functional bread of the city of Krasnoyarsk, wild berry plants of the Heather family (Ericaceae): fruits of cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), of cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), of blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum) and powders from them. The method of isolation of the average sample according to GOST 24.027.0-80 was used in the work. The content of toxic elements in berries was determined according to GOST 26927-86, GOST 26930-86, GOST 30178-96 using an atomic emission spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma-iCAP 6500. Generally accepted theoretical and statistical research methods, combinatorial analysis, and data processing using standard mathematical programs were used in the work. Study of the consumer survey, literature data of the chemical composition of berries of wild plants Ericaceae, data on the possibility of procurement of raw materials on the territory of Krasnoyarsk region, investigation of safety performance of the raw material and powders out of him for compliance with the requirements of TR CU 021/2011 and 027/2012 indicate the possibility of their use in the composition of functional bread as a source of biologically active compounds with a variety of positive physiological properties. The multivariance of the development of the range of functional types of bread with additives from Ericaceae berries is confirmed by the data of combinatorial analysis. As a result, an assortment concept of the species diversity of functional bread of a mass assortment of contemporary quality with additives from wild berry plants Ericaceae for improving nutrition was formed. Researches is promising in the formation of the range and actual quality of functional types of bread of mass assortment using local wild-growing raw materials, the advantage of which is naturalness, the content of functional ingredients, and contribute to the development of the range and technologies of healthy food products.

Temporal changes of mobile forms of 90Sr on Pripyat River floodplain in vicinity of Chornobyl NPP: measurements and risk assessments for river water contamination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennady Laptev ◽  
Oleg Voitsekhovych ◽  
Valentyn Protsak ◽  
Mark Zheleznyak ◽  
Kenji Nanba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Water System ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Computational Grids ◽  
Exclusion Zone ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
Fuel Particles

<p>Since the 1986 Chornobyl accident transport of radionuclides by Pripyat River shares more than 90% of the annual total flux of radioactivity coming out the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (ChEZ).  90Sr was the main contributor to this flux. In course of time destruction of the accidentally dispersed "fuel particles" leads to increase of mobile, e.g. water-soluble, forms of 90Sr  on territories affected by, while fixation of 137Cs in soil is reflected by significant reduction in 137Cs aquatic transport outside the ChEZ.</p><p>Heavily contaminated floodplain of the Pripyat River, located in vicinity of ChNPP upstream of Yaniv Bridge up to Ukrainian - Belorussian border, was considered as a “hotspot” with highest risks to the Pripyat and Dnipro water contamination due to recurrent flooding of these territories. This was evidently elucidated after the 1991 ice jam event when drastic increase of 90Sr in water was observed. The dikes splitting leftbank floodplain from the Pripyat river channel were constructed in 1992-1993. Yet, it is still important to quantify the amount of 90Sr that can be washed off the floodplain due to potential dike breakage caused by the extreme floods. </p><p>Key parameters used to describe status of radionuclide in reaching equilibrium in soil-water system are the distribution coefficient (Kd) and kinetic rate that is reciprocal of typical time scale of desorption processes. These parameters subsequently were estimated in 1991 on the basis of batch experiment carried out with the soil monoliths sampled from the Pripyat floodplain ( Laptev and Voistekhovich, 1991). Results were used in the 2D model COASTOX for justification the construction of protecting dikes (Zheleznyak at al., 1992).</p><p>To analyze current ability of 90Sr to be washed off the floodplain, soils monoliths were collected in 2020. The experimental studies of the soil cores collected from same location as the monoliths allowed to estimate mobile speciation of 90S and calibrate mass-exchange parameters. Amount of the readily exchangeable forms of 90Sr in soils significantly increased from 10-30% in the first years after the accident up to 65-75% as to 2020. Results of field and laboratory  studies were used for simulation the scenarios of 90Sr washing off the floodplain during the dikes breaks on the basis of contemporary version of COASTOX model, that includes the parallel algorithms for numerical solution of the model equations on the unstructured computational grids for multi CPU and GPU systems. Approaches for the modelling of the secondary release of 90Sr due the rapid destruction of “fuel particles” are considered. Taking into account two concurrent processes - decrease of amount of 90Sr in uppermost soil layer due to decay and downward vertical migration (1), amid increased amount of exchangeable forms of 90Sr (2), one could project subsequent increasing of 90Sr  in Pripyat and Dnipro river waters downstream the source in case of the dike breakage scenarios. On the other hand, computer simulation suggests that the maximal values of the 90Sr concentrations expected to be not higher than the measured ones during the high floods events after the accident.</p><p> </p>

Duplicated, Twisted, and in the Wrong Place

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-142
Author(s):  
Gerhard Scholtz
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
General Level ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Expression Studies ◽  
Normal Expression ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Gene Expression Studies ◽  
Boundary Model

The study of malformations is an important tool to understand mechanisms and causes of development and regeneration. Moreover, malformations indicate the morphological potential of living beings. Hence, a deeper understanding of how, to what degree, and why organismal structures can deviate from their normal expression is interesting in an evolutionary and ecological context. Like other arthropods, and animals in general, crustaceans show a certain variety of naturally occurring malformations of different body parts. This review is restricted to those that affect the axes of appendages and the trunk. Hence, the various patterns of axis distortion are described and classified. At the general level, malformations concerning limbs are discriminated from those that alter other body outgrowths and those that affect the pattern of the trunk. Among malformation of limbs and other body appendages, misplaced structures, fissions, and fusions are classified. Conjoined twins and distorted body segments are the main features of trunk malformations. The putative causes of malformations are discussed with respect to comparative and experimental approaches. Furthermore, gene expression studies, theories, and models, such as Hans Meinhardt’s Boundary Model, are applied to explain malformations at the level of pattern formation. Apparently, many malformations are not genetic mutations and thus not inheritable, but are instead the result of distortions during early development and regeneration artifacts based on injuries, high temperature, and toxic substances. Compared with other arthropod groups, there are very few experimental studies addressing malformations in crustaceans. Hence, the causes for specific patterns of deformities remain largely obscure.

scholarly journals Fertilization-Induced Changes in Growth Parameters and Antioxidant Activity of Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Arab Medicine

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Azaizeh ◽  
Predrag Ljubuncic ◽  
Irina Portnaya ◽  
Omar Said ◽  
Uri Cogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Activity ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Hoagland Solution ◽  
Β Carotene ◽  
Significant Concentration

In response to increased popularity and greater demand for medicinal plants, a number of conservation groups are recommending that wild medicinal plants be brought into cultivation systems. We collected four medicinal herbsCichorium pumilum, Eryngium creticum,Pistacia palaestinaandTeucrium poliumused in traditional Arab medicine for greenhouse cultivation to assess the effects of different fertilization regimes on their growth and antioxidant activity. Wild seedlings were collected and fertilized with either 100% Hoagland solution, 50% Hoagland solution, 20% Hoagland solution or irrigated with tap water. Plant height was measured and the number of green leaves and branches counted weekly. Thereafter, the aboveground parts of plants were harvested for preparing a water-soluble powder extracts of which antioxidant activity was measured by their ability to suppress the oxidation of β-carotene. Of the fertilization regimes, we found either 20 or 50% Hoagland solution produced the most consistent response of the plant growth parameters. All powders prepared from the four wild growing plants inhibited oxidation of β-carotene. Increasing the amount of fertilizer caused a significant concentration-dependent increase in antioxidant activity of the cultivatedT. poliumcompared with the wild type. In contrast, increasing the amount of fertilizer caused a significant concentration-dependent reduction in the antioxidant activity of powders prepared from the cultivatedE. creticumwhen compared with wild plants. Our results showed that cultivation success should not rely solely on parameters of growth but should incorporate assessment related to indices of therapeutic potential.

scholarly journals Computational Methods for the Identification of Molecular Targets of Toxic Food Additives. Butylated Hydroxytoluene as a Case Study

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 2229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Tortosa ◽  
Valentina Pietropaolo ◽  
Valentina Brandi ◽  
Gabriele Macari ◽  
Andrea Pasquadibisceglie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Methods ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Daily Intake ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Butylated Hydroxytoluene ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Toxicological Effects ◽  
Ligand Interactions ◽  
Toxic Food

Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) is one of the most commonly used synthetic antioxidants in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and petrochemical products. BHT is considered safe for human health; however, its widespread use together with the potential toxicological effects have increased consumers concern about the use of this synthetic food additive. In addition, the estimated daily intake of BHT has been demonstrated to exceed the recommended acceptable threshold. In the present work, using BHT as a case study, the usefulness of computational techniques, such as reverse screening and molecular docking, in identifying protein–ligand interactions of food additives at the bases of their toxicological effects has been probed. The computational methods here employed have been useful for the identification of several potential unknown targets of BHT, suggesting a possible explanation for its toxic effects. In silico analyses can be employed to identify new macromolecular targets of synthetic food additives and to explore their functional mechanisms or side effects. Noteworthy, this could be important for the cases in which there is an evident lack of experimental studies, as is the case for BHT.

Study on the Lipid-Lowering Effect of Water-Soluble Chitosan Nanoparticles and Microspheres In Vitro

2011 ◽  
Vol 217-218 ◽  
pp. 306-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Gao ◽  
Si Hui Wu ◽  
Hong Liang Zhang ◽  
Yi Tao ◽  
Zheng Quan Su
Keyword(s):  
Binding Capacity ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Chitosan Nanoparticles ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Lipid Lowering ◽  
Drying Methods ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
Particle Sizer ◽  
Lipid Lowering Effect

Objective: To prepare water-soluble chitosan(WSC) nanoparticles(WSC-NPs) and microspheres(WSC-MPs) , exam the morphology and particle sizes of them and study their effect on lowering lipids . Methods: WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs were prepared by ionic gelation process and spray-drying methods respectively. The effect of WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs on lowering lipids was evaluated by measuring its binding capacities of lipids in the conditions simulating human gastrointestinal tract in vitro. Also, the morphology and particle sizes of WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs were examined under scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and particle sizer. Resluts: WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs were nearly spherical in shape and the mean particles size varied from 200-400 nm and 3-7 μm respectively; The lipids-binding capacities of WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs were more effective compared with water-soluble chiosan. The lipids-binding capacity were enhenced when the particle size were decreased. Conclusion: WSC-NPs and WSC-MPs will be better fat-lowing food additives to replace water-soluble chitosan.

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