scholarly journals Review on Importance of Artocarpus heterophyllus L. (Jackfruit)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Ahasan Ullah Khan ◽  
Israt Jahan Ema ◽  
Md. Ruman Faruk ◽  
Shofiul Azam Tarapder ◽  
Anayat Ullah Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Feed ◽  
Nutritional Requirements ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Artocarpus Heterophyllus ◽  
Wood Color ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Anti Oxidant ◽  
Calcium Iron ◽  
Manganese Magnesium

The Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus L.) is well-known as “poor man’s food” fruit in Bangladesh. It is widely consumed by most of the rural people and it is the national fruit of Bangladesh. The main aim of this review is to document the medicinal significance of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus L.), major parts and uses of the jackfruit in Bangladesh. This article was based on mostly a literature review. All parts of the fruit and plant are used as human food, animal feed and wood source for furniture. Although jackfruit is the main fruit of the tree, it is used as furniture for its beautiful texture and wood color. Jackfruit contains anti-bacterial, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-helminthic properties. The fruit is rich in carbohydrates, minerals, carboxylic acids, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. The seed is rich in manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium iron and lectins and thus meets up nutritional requirements for the rural people. The present study attempted to review the medicinal importance, health-promoting effects of jackfruit and seeds with special emphasis on their applications in the food.

scholarly journals Plant-based fructans for increased animal welfare: provision processes and remaining challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zimmermann ◽  
C. Visscher ◽  
M. Kaltschmitt
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Dietary Fibre ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Glycosidic Bonds ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Branched Structure ◽  
Stimulation Of

AbstractFructans are carbohydrates consisting of fructose monomers linked by β-2,1- and/or β-2,6-glycosidic bonds with linear or branched structure. These carbohydrates belong to the group of prebiotic dietary fibre with health-promoting potential for humans and mammals due to their indigestibility and selective stimulation of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract. This makes fructans interesting mainly for healthy food as well as animal feed applications. As a consequence of a growing public awareness for animal welfare, dietary fibre and thus fructans move into the focus as a fibre-rich feeding improving not only animals’ health but also their well-being. Against this background, this paper summarises the known effects of fructans focusing on pigs and highlights the state of the art in fructan production processes from plant material as well as selected current research lines. Additionally, an attempt is made to assess the potential of European fructan production for an application as animal feed. Based on this, challenges in the field of fructan production are addressed and alternative substrates for fructans are discussed and pointed out.

scholarly journals A Novel Thermostable GH3β-Glucosidase fromTalaromyce leycettanuswith Broad Substrate Specificity and Significant Soybean Isoflavone Glycosides-Hydrolyzing Capability

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Xinxin Li ◽  
Wei Xia ◽  
Yingguo Bai ◽  
Rui Ma ◽  
Hong Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Glycoside Hydrolase ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Amino Acid Residues ◽  
Calculated Molecular Mass ◽  
Substrate Specificities ◽  
Soybean Isoflavone ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Isoflavone Glycoside ◽  
Hydrolysis Rates

A novelβ-glucosidase gene (Bgl3B) of glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 3 was cloned from the thermophilic fungusTalaromyce leycettanusJM12802 and successfully expressed inPichia pastoris. The deduced Bgl3B contains 860 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 91.2 kDa. The purified recombinant Bgl3B exhibited maximum activities at pH 4.5 and 65°C and remained stable at temperatures up to 60°C and pH 3.0−9.0, respectively. The enzyme exhibited broad substrate specificities, showingβ-glucosidase, glucanase, cellobiase, xylanase, and isoflavone glycoside hydrolase activities, and its activities were stimulated by short-chain alcohols. The catalytic efficiencies of Bgl3B were 693 and 104/mM/s towardspNPG and cellobiose, respectively. Moreover, Bgl3B was highly effective in converting isoflavone glycosides to aglycones at 37°C within 10 min, with the hydrolysis rates of 95.1%, 76.0%, and 75.3% for daidzin, genistin, and glycitin, respectively. These superior properties make Bgl3B potential for applications in the food, animal feed, and biofuel industries.

scholarly journals Health-Promoting Phytonutrients Are Higher in Grass-Fed Meat and Milk

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan van Vliet ◽  
Frederick D. Provenza ◽  
Scott L. Kronberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dairy Consumption ◽  
Nutrient Density ◽  
Nutritional Guidelines ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Anti Oxidant ◽  
Anti Inflammatory

While commission reports and nutritional guidelines raise concerns about the effects of consuming red meat on human health, the impacts of how livestock are raised and finished on consumer health are generally ignored. Meat and milk, irrespective of rearing practices, provide many essential nutrients including bioavailable protein, zinc, iron, selenium, calcium, and/or B12. Emerging data indicate that when livestock are eating a diverse array of plants on pasture, additional health-promoting phytonutrients—terpenoids, phenols, carotenoids, and anti-oxidants—become concentrated in their meat and milk. Several phytochemicals found in grass-fed meat and milk are in quantities comparable to those found in plant foods known to have anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, and cardioprotective effects. As meat and milk are often not considered as sources of phytochemicals, their presence has remained largely underappreciated in discussions of nutritional differences between feedlot-fed (grain-fed) and pasture-finished (grass-fed) meat and dairy, which have predominantly centered around the ω-3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid. Grazing livestock on plant-species diverse pastures concentrates a wider variety and higher amounts of phytochemicals in meat and milk compared to grazing monoculture pastures, while phytochemicals are further reduced or absent in meat and milk of grain-fed animals. The co-evolution of plants and herbivores has led to plants/crops being more productive when grazed in accordance with agroecological principles. The increased phytochemical richness of productive vegetation has potential to improve the health of animals and upscale these nutrients to also benefit human health. Several studies have found increased anti-oxidant activity in meat and milk of grass-fed vs. grain-fed animals. Only a handful of studies have investigated the effects of grass-fed meat and dairy consumption on human health and show potential for anti-inflammatory effects and improved lipoprotein profiles. However, current knowledge does not allow for direct linking of livestock production practices to human health. Future research should systematically assess linkages between the phytochemical richness of livestock diets, the nutrient density of animal foods, and subsequent effects on human metabolic health. This is important given current societal concerns about red meat consumption and human health. Addressing this research gap will require greater collaborative efforts from the fields of agriculture and medicine.

scholarly journals Valorization of Tomato Surplus and Waste Fractions: A Case Study Using Norway, Belgium, Poland, and Turkey as Examples

Foods ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Løvdal ◽  
Droogenbroeck ◽  
Eroglu ◽  
Kaniszewski ◽  
Agati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Feed ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Tomato Production ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
Tomato Processing ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact

There is a large potential in Europe for valorization in the vegetable food supply chain. For example, there is occasionally overproduction of tomatoes for fresh consumption, and a fraction of the production is unsuited for fresh consumption sale (unacceptable color, shape, maturity, lesions, etc.). In countries where the facilities and infrastructure for tomato processing is lacking, these tomatoes are normally destroyed, used as landfilling or animal feed, and represent an economic loss for producers and negative environmental impact. Likewise, there is also a potential in the tomato processing industry to valorize side streams and reduce waste. The present paper provides an overview of tomato production in Europe and the strategies employed for processing and valorization of tomato side streams and waste fractions. Special emphasis is put on the four tomato-producing countries Norway, Belgium, Poland, and Turkey. These countries are very different regards for example their climatic preconditions for tomato production and volumes produced, and represent the extremes among European tomato producing countries. Postharvest treatments and applications for optimized harvest time and improved storage for premium raw material quality are discussed, as well as novel, sustainable processing technologies for minimum waste and side stream valorization. Preservation and enrichment of lycopene, the primary health promoting agent and sales argument, is reviewed in detail. The European volume of tomato postharvest wastage is estimated at >3 million metric tons per year. Together, the optimization of harvesting time and preprocessing storage conditions and sustainable food processing technologies, coupled with stabilization and valorization of processing by-products and side streams, can significantly contribute to the valorization of this underutilized biomass.

Biomass cultivation and harvest: global trends and prospects

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. P. W. Winteringham
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Natural Fibres ◽  
World Population ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The United Nations

Trends in pressures on land and water for food, animal feed, natural fibres and botanically-derived fuels, in world population, in demands per capita, and the growing interactions as a result of these trends suggest some seriously underestimated problems and emerging constraints for the immediate decades ahead. The social background of persistent disparities but growing awareness, and escalating potential for destruction and bilogical injury, lend urgency to the need for a greatly improved and internationally coordinated attack on these problems. More effective support for, and use of, the existing machinery of the United Nations are seen as the only immediately feasible step in this direction.

scholarly journals Surface Active Agents and Their Health-Promoting Properties: Molecules of Multifunctional Significance

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Anestopoulos ◽  
Despoina Eugenia Kiousi ◽  
Ariel Klavaris ◽  
Alex Galanis ◽  
Karina Salek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Fluid Interfaces ◽  
Foaming Agents ◽  
Chemical Derivatives ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Surface Active Agents ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Anti Oxidant ◽  
Surface Active

Surface active agents (SAAs) are molecules with the capacity to adsorb to solid surfaces and/or fluid interfaces, a property that allows them to act as multifunctional ingredients (e.g., wetting and dispersion agents, emulsifiers, foaming and anti-foaming agents, lubricants, etc.) in a widerange of the consumer products of various industrial sectors (e.g., pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care, detergents, food, etc.). Given their widespread utilization, there is a continuously growing interest to explore their role in consumer products (relevant to promoting human health) and how such information can be utilized in order to synthesize better chemical derivatives. In this review article, weaimed to provide updated information on synthetic and biological (biosurfactants) SAAs and their health-promoting properties (e.g., anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-aging) in an attempt to better define some of the underlying mechanism(s) by which they exert such properties.

scholarly journals Proteomics of an Orphan Legume, Grasspea: Current Status and Future Strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Rathi ◽  
Subhra Chakraborty ◽  
Niranjan Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Future Strategy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
As Stress ◽  
Made In

Orphan legumes are defined as those which are grown as food, animal feed and/or other legumes of agriculture importance, but which have received very little research attention. Grasspea is one of the best examples of such legume which is cultivated worldwide, as it is the cheapest source of dietary protein particularly for the developing world. It has remained outside the realm of largescale functional genomics studies. Many grasspea cultivars are capable to withstand a myriad of constraints, not only the common abiotic stresses, but pests and pathogen attack making it one of the potential systems to study stress tolerance. In recent years, most of its traits that interest biologists worldwide, such as stress tolerance, have rated so high that a number of new initiatives have been taken by different research groups for better and safer use of grasspea. In this review, we discuss the progress made in the field of grasspea proteomics to date and dwell upon the future direction/problems/approaches towards defining the grasspea proteome.Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 25(1): 117-141, 2015 (June)

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