scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence in Functional Food Ingredient Discovery and Characterisation: A Focus on Bioactive Plant and Food Peptides

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Doherty ◽  
Audrey Wall ◽  
Nora Khaldi ◽  
Martin Kussmann
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Unmet Health Needs ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Bioactive Ingredients ◽  
Natural Foods

Scientific research consistently demonstrates that diseases may be delayed, treated, or even prevented and, thereby, health may be maintained with health-promoting functional food ingredients (FFIs). Consumers are increasingly demanding sound information about food, nutrition, nutrients, and their associated health benefits. Consequently, a nutrition industry is being formed around natural foods and FFIs, the economic growth of which is increasingly driven by consumer decisions. Information technology, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), is primed to vastly expand the pool of characterised and annotated FFIs available to consumers, by systematically discovering and characterising natural, efficacious, and safe bioactive ingredients (bioactives) that address specific health needs. However, FFI-producing companies are lagging in adopting AI technology for their ingredient development pipelines for several reasons, resulting in a lack of efficient means for large-scale and high-throughput molecular and functional ingredient characterisation. The arrival of the AI-led technological revolution allows for the comprehensive characterisation and understanding of the universe of FFI molecules, enabling the mining of the food and natural product space in an unprecedented manner. In turn, this expansion of bioactives dramatically increases the repertoire of FFIs available to the consumer, ultimately resulting in bioactives being specifically developed to target unmet health needs.

scholarly journals Pinus Species as Prospective Reserves of Bioactive Compounds with Potential Use in Functional Food—Current State of Knowledge

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1306
Author(s):  
Marcin Dziedziński ◽  
Joanna Kobus-Cisowska ◽  
Barbara Stachowiak
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Bioactive Compounds ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Pine Tree ◽  
Pine Trees ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Few Data

The pine (Pinus L.) is the largest and most heteromorphic plant genus of the pine family (Pinaceae Lindl.), which grows almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere. The demand for plant-based remedies, supplements and functional food is growing worldwide. Although pine-based products are widely available in many parts of the world, they are almost absent as food ingredients. The literature shows the beneficial effects of pine preparations on human health. Despite the wide geographical distribution of pine trees in the natural environment, there are very few data in the literature on the widespread use of pine in food technology. This study aims to present, characterise and evaluate the content of phytochemicals in pine trees, including shoots, bark and conifer needles, as well as to summarise the available data on their health-promoting and functional properties, and the potential of their use in food and the pharmaceutical industry to support health. Various species of pine tree contain different compositions of bioactive compounds. Regardless of the solvent, method, pine species and plant part used, all pine extracts contain a high number of polyphenols. Pine tree extracts exhibit several described biological activities that may be beneficial to human health. The available examples of the application of pine elements in food are promising. The reuse of residual pine elements is still limited compared to its potential. In this case, it is necessary to conduct more research to find and develop new products and applications of pine residues and by-products.

scholarly journals Encapsulation of food protein hydrolysates and peptides: a review

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (97) ◽  
pp. 79270-79278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aishwarya Mohan ◽  
Subin R. C. K. Rajendran ◽  
Quan Sophia He ◽  
Laurent Bazinet ◽  
Chibuike C. Udenigwe
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Protein Hydrolysates ◽  
Food Protein ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Health Promoting

Encapsulation of food protein hydrolysates and peptides using protein, polysaccharide and lipid carriers is needed to enhance their biostability and bioavailability for application as health-promoting functional food ingredients and nutraceuticals.

Broad bean (Vicia faba L.) pods: a rich source of bioactive ingredients with antimicrobial, antioxidant, enzyme inhibitory, anti-diabetic and health-promoting properties

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2051-2069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiza Mejri ◽  
Slimen Selmi ◽  
Alice Martins ◽  
Haifa benkhoud ◽  
Tarek Baati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Enzyme ◽  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Broad Bean ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Vicia Faba L ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Bioactive Ingredients

Broad bean pods have been proven to be a functional food with promising in vitro and in vivo biological activities.

scholarly journals Plant Foods and Underutilized Fruits as Source of Functional Food Ingredients: Chemical Composition, Quality Traits, and Biological Properties

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Donno ◽  
Federica Turrini
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Food Supplement ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Plant Foods ◽  
Health Promoting

Changes in lifestyle and demographics, rising consumer incomes, and shifting preferences due to advanced knowledge about the relationships between food and health contribute to generate new needs in the food supply. Today, the role of food is not only intended as hunger satisfaction and nutrient supply but also as an opportunity to prevent nutrition-related diseases and improve physical and mental well-being. For this reason, there is a growing interest in the novel or less well-known plant foods that offer an opportunity for health maintenance. Recently, interest in plant foods and underutilized fruits is continuously growing, and agrobiodiversity exploitation offers effective and extraordinary potentialities. Plant foods could be an important source of health-promoting compounds and functional food ingredients with beneficial properties: the description of the quality and physicochemical traits, the identification and quantification of bioactive compounds, and the evaluation of their biological activities are important to assess plant food efficacy as functional foods or source of food supplement ingredients.

scholarly journals The Technology and Composition of Functional Food Ingredients Obtained by Sorption of the Polyphenolic Compounds From Cranberry on Coagulated Egg Albumen

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Lvovna Stefanova ◽  
Elena Vladimirovna Kropacheva ◽  
Anastasia Yurievna Klimenkova ◽  
Irina Borisovna Perova ◽  
Vladimir Kimovich Mazo
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Polyphenolic Compounds ◽  
Cranberry Juice ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Egg Albumen ◽  
Highperformance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Protein Matrices

The technologies for developing food products for people with type 2 diabetes involve enrichment with polyphenolic compounds that have hypoglycemic and/or hypolipidemic properties. The production of ingredients for introduction into such food products should involve the techniques of concentration of natural polyphenols on certain food-grade protein matrices. In this study, a technology was developed for the production of a functional food ingredient, which was a complex of polyphenols (mostly anthocyans) from cranberries with coagulated egg albumen. The optimal parameters of sorption of anthocyans from cranberry juice on the albumen during the coagulation of the latter were determined. The contents and profile of anthocyans within the resulting food ingredient were assessed. The concentration of total anthocyans (recalculated to equivalents of cyanidin-3-glucoside) was determined by pH-differential spectrophotometry; the profile of individual anthocyans was determined by highperformance liquid chromatography. Sensory evaluation of the resulting ingredient (through a taste panel test) evidenced the possibility of including the product in the functional foodstuffs. The technology developed can be used in the design of functional food ingredients for subsequent introduction into anti-diabetic food products. Keywords: coagulated egg albumen, cranberry juice, anthocyans, functional food ingredients

scholarly journals Effect of functional food ingredients on gut microbiota in a rodent diabetes model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid S. Surono ◽  
Ata Aditya Wardana ◽  
Priyo Waspodo ◽  
Budi Saksono ◽  
Jessica Verhoeven ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Diabetic Rats ◽  
Modified Starch ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Native Starch ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Units ◽  
Diabetes Model

Abstract Background: The gut microbiota has been shown to be involved in the development and severity of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aim of the present study was to test the effect of 4-week functional food ingredient feeding, alone or in combination, on the gut microbiota composition in diabetic rats.Methods: Streptozotocin(STZ)-induced diabetic rats were treated for 4 weeks with i) native taro starch, ii) modified taro-starch, iii) beet juice, iv) psicose, v) the probiotic L.plantarum IS-10506, vi) native starch combined with beet juice, vii) native starch to which beet juice was adsorbed, viii) modified starch combined with beet juice or ix) modified starch to which beet juice was adsorbed, to modulate the composition of the gut microbiota. This composition was evaluated by sequencing the PCR amplified V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene.Results: The next-generation sequencing showed beneficial effects particularly of taro-starch feeding. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) related to health (e.g. correlating with low BMI, OTUs producing butyrate) were increased in relative abundance, while OTUs generally correlated with disease (e.g. Proteobacteria) were decreased by feeding taro-starch.Conclusion: The results of study show that a 4-week intervention with functional food ingredients, particularly taro-derived starch, leads to a more healthy gut microbiota in rats that were induced to be diabetic by induction with STZ.

Safety assessment of the innovative functional food ingredient from Cannabis sativa L. wastes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Fatmanur Gönce ◽  
Elmas Ersöz ◽  
Meryem Kara ◽  
Gökhan Kars ◽  
Saliha Dinç ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Activity ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Cannabis Sativa ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Promoting Effect ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Genetic Level ◽  
Growth Profiles

AbstractXylooligosaccharides (XOS) are the oligomers of β-1,4 linked xylose monomers and they have health promoting effect by modulating the beneficial microorganisms in intestine. In this study, hydrolysate obtained from hemp (Cannabis sativa) shives was investigated in terms of its in vitro toxicological impacts at cellular and genetic levels and antioxidant activity. The hydrolysate was found to contain 0.264 mg mL-1 of xylose, 0.789 mg mL-1 of xylobiose and 0.171 mg mL-1 of xylotriose in addition to hydroxymethlyfurfural (HMF) and furfural (F) at concentrations of 0.545 mg mL-1 and 0.107 mg mL-1, respectively. The cells, colon epithelial cells (CoN) and colon cancer cells (Caco-2), exposed to 5.00 mg mL-1 or lower XOS hydrolysate showed very similar growth profiles to the untreated control cells. At the genetic level, the oxidative responses of the cell types to XOS hydrolysate were different as measured by NFE2L2 (Nuclear factor, erythroid-derived 2-like 2) gene expression. Regarding antioxidant activity, the amount of XOS hydrolysate (IC50) that cleared 50 % of the 2,2-diphenyl-l-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) in the medium was calculated as 0.12 mg mL-1. To conclude, based on in vitro studies, XOS hydrolysate obtained from lignocellulosic hemp shives emerges as an innovative, alternative and safe functional food candidate.

POTENSI TEPUNG CEKER DAN LEHER AYAM SEBAGAI FOOD INGREDIENT DAN SUMBER PANGAN FUNGSIONAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Purwasih ◽  
Wiwik Endah Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Mineral Content ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Live Stock

Chicken feet and neck bones flour are the products of live stock which have a high protein and mineral content. However, they have not been utilized functionally, while they have a potential as a food ingredient and functional food source. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts to utilize the chicken feet and neck bones flour as functional food products and new food ingredients. Both chicken feet and neck bones flour can be mixed with other raw materials which have a potential function as food sources for energy. The addition of protein and minerals from the both chicken feet and neck bones flour are expected to be able to increase the nutritional value of a product, especially for the protein and mineral content. Thus, the product is not only as an energy source but also as a source of protein and minerals. Moreover, functional food development is not only beneficial for consumers but also as an opportunity for the food industry and government

scholarly journals Nutraceuticals in Alternative and Underutilized Fruits as Functional Food Ingredients: Ancient Species for New Health Needs

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Donno ◽  
Maria Gabriella Mellano ◽  
Alessandro Kim Cerutti ◽  
Gabriele Loris Beccaro
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Food Ingredients
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