Current awareness about the benefits of a balanced diet supports ongoing trends in humans
towards a healthier diet. This review provides an overview of fruits and fruit-by products as …

Laccases are a class of multicopper oxidases that catalyse the one-electron oxidation of four
equivalents of a reducing substrate, with the concomitant four-electron reduction of dioxygen …

Obesity as part of metabolic syndrome is a major lifestyle disorder throughout the world.
Current drug treatments for obesity produce small and usually unsustainable decreases in …

Sea buckthorn (Elaeagnus rhamnoides; syn. Hippophae rhamnoides) is a thorny shrub or a
small tree belonging to the Elaeagnaceae family, native to Eurasia. Sea buckthorn fruit is …

It is well-known that the health properties attributed to several fruits, herbs, seeds and their
processed foods/beverages are due to an important group of natural polyphenols classified …

Abstract 1, 2, 3, 4, 6-Penta-O-Galloyl-β-d-Glucose (PGG) is a hydrolysable tannin that
belongs to the group of gallotannins but also participates in the formation of ellagitannins …

Polyphenols form one of the largest groups of natural compounds and possess a wide range
of biological properties. These activities can be influenced by the galloyl moiety within their …

Thermal processing is known to affect the content of the bioactive compounds and
antioxidant activity. In this study drying assays were conducted on maqui berries (Aristotelia …

A considerable volume of wastewater is generally dumped into bodies of water, which has
severe negative consequences on aquatic habitats. While various traditional methods are …

Objective To determinate the recovery of total polyphenolic compounds content, in vitro
antioxidant activity and HPLC/ESI/MS characterization of extract from Nephelium lappaceum …