Nowadays, consumers are more conscious of the environmental and nutritional benefits of
foods. Pseudocereals grains, edible seeds belonging to dicotyledonous plant species, are …

Quinoa is one of the gluten-free crops that has attracted considerable interest. Quinoa
contains functional ingredients such as bioactive peptides, polysaccharides, saponins …

Plants produce a wide diversity of secondary metabolites (SM) which serve them as defense
compounds against herbivores, and other plants and microbes, but also as signal …

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus L.) are
pseudocereal grains rich in both macronutrients and micronutrients including vitamins and …

Highlights•Quinoa is a pseudocereal with high nutritional and biological value.•A wide range
of bioactive phytochemicals have been identified in quinoa.•Beneficial effects on …

The present study investigated the chemical composition of quinoa saponins and examined
their possible antimicrobial modes of action against foodborne pathogenic bacteria. Six …

Saponins, a second metabolites mainly derived from plant materials, have been used
extensively in drug-related industry due to the pharmaceutical properties. These have driven …

Saponins are bioactive compounds generally considered to be produced by plants to
counteract pathogens and herbivores. Besides their role in plant defense, saponins are of …

Saponins are steroid or triterpenoid glycosides, common in a large number of plants and
plant products that are important in human and animal nutrition. Several biological effects …

Plant saponins are widely distributed amongst plants and have a wide range of biological
properties. The more recent investigations and findings into their biological activities were …