Many of the world's most important vegetables and medicinal crops, including carrot, celery,
coriander, fennel, and cumin, belong to the Apiaceae family. In this review, we summarize …

Bioactive peptides (BPs) derived from animal and plant proteins are important food
functional ingredients with many promising health-promoting properties. In the food industry …

The present work was aimed to evaluate the adsorption properties of activated carbons
based on prickly pear seeds (PPS) and conductive polymer matrix based on polyaniline …

Sicily (Italy) is the second producer of Opuntia ficus-indica (OFI) fruits after Mexico. To date,
huge quantities of fruit are discarded during the selection for the fresh market, generating a …

There is currently an increasing interest in obtaining bioactive components and natural
pigments by novel extraction technologies. Betalains are plant-derived secondary …

Cactus (Opuntia ficus‐indica L.) seed oil, which is extracted from prickly pear fruit seeds,
might constitute an alimentary source of substances of nutraceutical value. Physicochemical …

Prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica (L). Mill.) vinegar has been produced by submerged
culture using scale laboratory fermenters at three acetification temperatures (30° C, 37° C …

Postharvest processing plays a crucial role in harnessing the benefits of prickly pear fruit by
utilizing betalain as natural colorants to replace artificial colors in model food systems …

Opuntia plants are abundant but still underexplored edible resources of the Algerian region.
This work chemically characterizes extracts of different parts of the fruit of the commercial …

The present study focuses on the effect of temperature and extraction methods on the yields,
chemical quality, fatty acids, and tocopherols of the oil extracted from the seeds of Opuntia …