Background: Recently, there has been a remarkable progress in the field of antiviral herbal
therapy owing to increasing concerns about the development of drug resistance and limited …

Prebiotics are either natural or synthetic non-digestible (non-) carbohydrate substances that
boost the proliferation of gut microbes. Undigested fructooligosaccharides in the large …

The Mediterranean basin is a biodiversity hotspot of wild edible species, and their
therapeutic and culinary uses have long been documented. Owing to the growing demand …

Recently, there has been increasing interest in medicinal plants, due to their content of
health-promoting compounds, eg, caffeic acids derivatives. Hence, the aim of this work was …

Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber ex FH
Wigg.), as a garden weed grown globally, has long been consumed as a therapeutic herb …

Oxidative stress is among the major triggers for many important human functional disorders,
which often lead to various metabolic or tissue diseases. The aim of the study is to obtain …

This research underlines the potential of employing emulsion/internal gelation
encapsulation in alginate and pectin hydrogels for the simultaneous delivery of hydrophilic …

Alginate hydrogels are often used for immobilization of plant-derived bioactive compounds
by fast and simple ionic gelation technique. However, the structure of alginate gel network is …

Consumption of the edible flowers forms new trend in human nutrition, especially in
Bulgaria. Therefore, the determination of bioactive compounds content in their petals …

Taraxaci folium and Matricariae flos plant extracts contain a wide range of bioactive
compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. The aim of the study was to …