scholarly journals Natural plant colorants widely used in Vietnam traditional food culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quang-Ung Le ◽  
Horng-Liang Lay ◽  
Ming- Chang Wu ◽  
Thi Hong-Hanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Natural Plant ◽  
Natural Pigments ◽  
Food Dyes ◽  
The World

The artificial colorants have gradually been being replaced by natural pigments which are becoming increasingly important in Vietnam and other parts of the world due to the potential noxiousness of man-made food dyes to human health. This research covers colorant plants and sources used commonly in the food culture of ethnic communities in Vietnam with the current trend toward natural pigments and coloring foods. As a result, we reported 49 species which can be used as natural food pigments and of these, 7 colorant plants used mostly in Vietnam traditional food culture were detailed.

scholarly journals Noninvasive and safe cell viability assay forEuglena gracilisusing natural food pigment

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyohei Yamashita ◽  
Koji Yamada ◽  
Kengo Suzuki ◽  
Eiji Tokunaga
Keyword(s):  
Cell Viability ◽  
Euglena Gracilis ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Synthetic Dyes ◽  
Cell Viability Assay ◽  
Natural Pigments ◽  
Viability Assay ◽  
Good Ability

Noninvasive and safe cell viability assay is required in many fields such as regenerative medicine, genetic engineering, single-cell analysis, and microbial food culture. In this case, a safe and inexpensive method which is a small load on cells and the environment is preferable without requiring expensive and space-consuming equipment and a technician to operate. We examined eight typical natural food pigments to findMonascuspigment (MP) or anthocyanin pigment (AP) works as a good viability indicator of dye exclusion test (DET) forEuglena graciliswhich is an edible photosynthetic green microalga. This is the first report using natural food pigments as cell viability assay.Euglena gracilisstained by MP or AP can be visually judged with a bright field microscope. This was spectrally confirmed by scan-free, non-invasive absorbance spectral imagingA(x, y,λ) microscopy of single live cells and principal component analysis (PCA). To confirm the ability of staining dead cells and examine the load on the cells, these two natural pigments were compared with trypan blue (TB) and methylene blue (MP), which are synthetic dyes conventionally used for DET. As a result, MP and AP had as good ability of staining dead cells treated with microwave as TB and MB and showed faster and more uniform staining for dead cells in benzalkonium chloride than them. The growth curve and the ratio of dead cells in the culture showed that the synthetic dyes inhibit the growth ofE. gracilis, but the natural pigments do not. As the cell density increased, however, AP increased the ratio of stained cells, which was prevented by the addition of glucose. MP can stain dead cells in a shorter time than AP, while AP is more stable in color against long-term irradiation of intense light than MP. Due to the low toxicity of these pigments, viability of cells in culture can be monitored with them over a long period.

scholarly journals Oregano - właściwości i wykorzystanie przez ludzi

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Olga Suska ◽  
Oliwia Turkot ◽  
Kalina Sikorska-Zimny
Keyword(s):  
Essential Oils ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Food Preservatives ◽  
Whole Plant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Introduction. Lebiodka, or oregano, is a popular plant used in medicine, cosmetics and in cuisine in many areas of the world. Oregano’s properties were appreciated by the ancients, and now due to the growing interest in the healing effects of plants, oregano is becoming the subject of interest of many researchers. Its bacterial-fungicidal and even virucidal properties aroused great interest. Oregano was valued as a panacea for gastrointestinal ailments, but also used as calming agent for skin irritations. Overview. With the development of science, we get to know better and more precisely not only the composition of plants, but also their impact on human health of both individual ingredients and the whole plant. Oregano is rich in essential oils, but also polyphenols, micro and macro elements and thanks to its abilities has been known for its healing properties since antiquity. Along with the development of analytical methods and scientific knowledge, the oregano was examined and assessed about the mechanisms of its pro-health effects. Conclusions. Due to oregano’s properties, as a beneficial agent for human health and additionally capable of acting as a kind of natural food preservatives. An interest in such possible usage of oregano is constantly increasing.

scholarly journals Women, Nature and Culture: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Matrilineal Culture of the Khasis, Jaintia and Garo Tribes of Meghalaya

2020 ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Mukherjee ◽  
Sruthi P.
Keyword(s):  
Northeast India ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Parallel Study ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The World

Northeast India, the land of original inhabitants, follows a unique and fascinating culture and tradition as its inhabitants are closely attached to nature. Northeast India is one of those few places in the world, where matrilineal culture is still practiced. In Meghalaya, one of the northeastern states, the practice of matrilineality has been in existence for almost 2000 years among a few tribes. Khasi, Jaintia and Garo, the earliest ethnic communities of Meghalaya appear to be homogenous ones, as the youngest daughter becomes the custodian of the ancestral prospects. This practice where the womenfolk become the custodians of the cultural and natural artifacts has strong parallels in the theory of ecofeminism. By employing ecofeministic perspective to read the matrilineal culture of the tribes, the paper aims to make a parallel study on the ethnic women’s affinity towards nature. Ecofeminism celebrates the robust connect between women and nature and asserts that women serve as the advocates for nature rather than men. The paper, therefore, aims to investigate ecofeministic elements among the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo tribes of Meghalaya and tries to express an ecofeministic view concerning family, marriage, religion, and food culture of the Meghalaya tribes.

1989 göçü sonrası Bulgaristan göçmenlerinin yemek kültüründeki değişim

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Cahit Kahraman ◽  
İlhan Güneş ◽  
Nanae Kahraman
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Canned Food ◽  
Product Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Made In

1989 göçü öncesi, dünyada eşzamanlı olarak gittikçe gelişen ve zenginleşen mutfak kültürü, Bulgaristan Türklerini de etkilemiştir. Pazardaki çeşitlilik arttıkça, yemek alışkanlıkları da değişime uğramıştır. Büyük göçten sadece 30-40 sene evvel kısıtlı imkânlar ile sınırlı sayıda yemek çeşidi üretilirken, alım gücünün artmasıyla yemek kültüründe de hızlı gelişmeler olmuştur. Artan ürün çeşitliliği yemeklere de yansımış, farklı lezzetler mutfaklara girmiştir. Göçmen yemekleri denilince hamur işleri, börek ve pideler akla gelir. Ayrıca, göçmenlerin çok zengin turşu, komposto ve konserve kültürüne sahip oldukları da bilinir. Bu çalışma, 1989 öncesi Bulgaristan’ın farklı bölgelerinde yaşayan Türklerin yemek alışkanlıklarına ışık tutmakla birlikte, göç sonrasında göçmen mutfak kültüründe bir değişiklik oluşup oluşmadığını konu almaktadır. Bu amaçla, 1989 yılında Türkiye’ye göç etmiş 50 kişiye 8 sorudan oluşan anket düzenlenmiştir. Bu verilerden yola çıkarak oluşan bulgular derlenmiş ve yeni tespitler yapılmıştır. Ayrıca, Türkiye’nin farklı bölgelerine yerleşen göçmenler, kendi göçmen pazarlarını kurmuşlardır. Bulgaristan’dan getirilen ürünlerin bu pazarlarda satılması böyle bir arz talebin hala devam ettiğine işaret etmektedir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHThe Diversity in Cuisine Culture of the Immigrants from Bulgaria After 1989 MigrationThe Cuisine culture that has been developing and getting rich day by day contemporaneously in the world before 1989 migration has also had an impact on Bulgarian Turks. By the increase in diversity in the market, eating habits have changed. While producing a limited number of food types with limited opportunities just some 30 or 40 years before the ‘Big Migration’, there has been a rapid progress in food culture by the help of the increase in purchase power. Enhancing product range has been reflected in food, and different tastes have entered the cuisines. When we say immigrant, the first things that come to our mind are pastry, flan and pitta bread. Moreover, it is also known that immigrants have a very rich cuisine culture of pickle, stewed fruit, and canned food. This study aims both to disclose the eating habits of Turks living in different regions of Bulgaria before 1989 and to determine whether there has been a difference in immigrant cuisine culture before and after the migration. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 8 questions has been administered to 50 people who migrated to Turkey in 1989. The results gathered from these data have been compiled and new determinations have been made. In addition, immigrants that settled in different regions of Turkey have set their own immigrant markets. The fact that the products brought from Bulgaria are being sold in these markets shows that this kind of supply and demand still continues.

The Compost Wars

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
First World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Popular Audience ◽  
First World

After the death of Gabrielle Howard from cancer, Albert married her sister Louise. Louise had been pressured to leave Cambridge as a classics lecturer as a result of her pro-peace writings during the First World War. After working for Virginia Wolf, she then worked for the League of Nations in Geneva. Louise was herself an expert on labor and agriculture, and helped Albert write for a popular audience. Albert Howard toured plantations around the world advocating the Indore Method. After the publication of the Agricultural Testament (1943), Albert Howard focused on popularizing his work among gardeners and increasingly connected his composting methods to issues of human health.

scholarly journals Using a B-Phycoerythrin Extract as a Natural Colorant: Application in Milk-Based Products

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Ana Belén García ◽  
Eleonora Longo ◽  
Mª Carmen Murillo ◽  
Ruperto Bermejo
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Color Stability ◽  
Good Stability ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Natural Colorant ◽  
Natural Origin ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Food Dyes ◽  
Ph Range

Nowadays, there is a growing interest in finding new coloring molecules of natural origin that can increase and diversify the offer of natural food dyes already present in the market. In the present work, a B-phycoerythrin extract from the microalgae Porphyridium cruentum was tested as a food colorant in milk-based products. Using spectroscopy and colorimetry, the extract was characterized and gave evidence of good properties and good stability in the pH range between 4.0 and 9.0. Coloring studies were conducted to demonstrate that samples carrying the pink extract could be used for simulating the pink color of marketed milk-based products. The staining factors, representing the amount of pink protein to be added to reproduce the color of strawberry commercial products, ranged between 1.6 mg/L and 49.5 mg/L, being sufficiently low in all samples. Additionally, color stability during a short period of cold storage was studied: it demonstrated that the three tested types of dairy products remained stable throughout the 11-day analysis period with no significant changes. These results prove the potential of the B-phycoerythrin extract as a natural colorant and alternative ingredient to synthetic coloring molecules.

scholarly journals Rapamycin: Drug Repurposing in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Jiri Patocka ◽  
Kamil Kuca ◽  
Patrik Oleksak ◽  
Eugenie Nepovimova ◽  
Martin Valis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Health ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Drug Repurposing ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Suitable Candidate ◽  
Promising Strategy ◽  
The World

Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been a worldwide pandemic with enormous consequences for human health and the world economy. Remdesivir is the only drug in the world that has been approved for the treating of COVID-19. This drug, as well as vaccination, still has uncertain effectiveness. Drug repurposing could be a promising strategy how to find an appropriate molecule: rapamycin could be one of them. The authors performed a systematic literature review of available studies on the research describing rapamycin in association with COVID-19 infection. Only peer-reviewed English-written articles from the world’s acknowledged databases Web of Science, PubMed, Springer and Scopus were involved. Five articles were eventually included in the final analysis. The findings indicate that rapamycin seems to be a suitable candidate for drug repurposing. In addition, it may represent a better candidate for COVID-19 therapy than commonly tested antivirals. It is also likely that its efficiency will not be reduced by the high rate of viral RNA mutation.

Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among Professional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania

Slavic Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Beissinger
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
Boundary Making

Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, investigating in particular the discourse that they generate as they maintain their exclusive vocational niche on the boundaries of intersecting ethnic communities. Seeking to establish the influence of Romani musicians as agents in the construction of their own identity, Beissinger discusses notions that Romani musicians provide of non-Roms and other Roms (including other musicians), as well as how they portray surrounding cultural and political phenomena as expressions of their syncretic occupational and ethnic sense of self. Beissinger argues that Romani musicians are unquestionably enclosed by socially inflicted boundaries but are themselves also agents of boundary-making as they articulate connections with and distinctions from the world around them. Throughout, she draws pertinent comparisons with Romani musicians in other east European countries.

scholarly journals Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals from Microalgae: Main Product Classes and Biotechnological Production

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1626
Author(s):  
Regina Kratzer ◽  
Michael Murkovic
Keyword(s):  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Food Supplement ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Biotechnological Production ◽  
Microalgal Biomass ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Fishmeal Replacement ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Energy Inputs ◽  
Food Dyes

Microalgal products are an emerging class of food, feed, and nutraceuticals. They include dewatered or dried biomass, isolated pigments, and extracted fat. The oil, protein, and antioxidant-rich microalgal biomass is used as a feed and food supplement formulated as pastes, powders, tablets, capsules, or flakes designed for daily use. Pigments such as astaxanthin (red), lutein (yellow), chlorophyll (green), or phycocyanin (bright blue) are natural food dyes used as isolated pigments or pigment-rich biomass. Algal fat extracted from certain marine microalgae represents a vegetarian source of n-3-fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), γ-linolenic acid (GLA)). Gaining an overview of the production of microalgal products is a time-consuming task. Here, requirements and options of microalgae cultivation are summarized in a concise manner, including light and nutrient requirements, growth conditions, and cultivation systems. The rentability of microalgal products remains the major obstacle in industrial application. Key challenges are the high costs of commercial-scale cultivation, harvesting (and dewatering), and product quality assurance (toxin analysis). High-value food ingredients are commonly regarded as profitable despite significant capital expenditures and energy inputs. Improvements in capital and operational costs shall enable economic production of low-value food products going down to fishmeal replacement in the future economy.

PANDEMIC AND ITS RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2423-2427
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Gupta ◽  
Anupama Patra ◽  
Sarita Yadav ◽  
Akanksha Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Viral Infection ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
Considerable Contribution ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Entire World

The entire world faced the corona crisis recently, still undergoing it. The world merely is seeing through it as a pandemic and is connecting it to a kind of viral infection invading the human community. The whole of the health machinery got paralyzed fighting the pandemic leading to millions of deaths around the globe. Moreover, the ad- vanced modern system of medicine was almost helpless in combating the virus-related hazards to human health. At this time, the considerable contribution was provided by the Ayurveda, our ancient traditional system of medi- cine. If we see the ayurvedic literature, the concept of Janpadodhwamsa provides answers to the mystery behind the fatal covid virus. The paper aims to provide a view about the Janpadodhwamsa which states various factors relating to the pandemic, the root cause of such events and the remedial measures for it. Keywords: Vayu, Jala, Desh, Kala, Janpadodhwamsa, Nidana Parivarjana, Prajnapradha

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