The Dioscorea Genus (Yam)—An Appraisal of Nutritional and Therapeutic Potentials

JE Obidiegwu, JB Lyons, CA Chilaka - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
The quest for a food secure and safe world has led to continuous effort toward improvements
of global food and health systems. While the developed countries seem to have these …

Nanotechnology and its challenges in the food sector: A review

P Kumar, P Mahajan, R Kaur, S Gautam - Materials Today Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibacterial activity of nanoparticles has received significant attention worldwide because
of their great physical and chemical stability, excellent magnetic properties, and large lattice …

[HTML][HTML] Development and characterization of cassava starch films incorporated with blueberry pomace

CL Luchese, T Garrido, JC Spada, IC Tessaro… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work is focused on the development of renewable and biodegradable films by the
valorisation of wastes from food processing industries, with the aim of contributing to the …

A pH-sensitive intelligent packaging film harnessing Dioscorea zingiberensis starch and anthocyanin for meat freshness monitoring

L Wang, C Yang, X Deng, J Peng, J Zhou, G Xia… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abundant starch was isolated from Dioscorea zingiberensis CH Wright, a novel and
underutilized industrial crop resource. In this study, an intelligent packaging film able to …

Exploring the adsorption efficiency of a novel cellulosic material for removal of food dye from water

AK Biswal, M Sahoo, PK Suna, L Panda… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
A cellulosic nanoadsorbent was developed from the fruit coat of a forest tree named, Kendu
(Diospyros melanoxylon) to remove tartrazine dye, popularly known as the yellow dye, from …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of microwave treatment on technological, physicochemical, rheological and microstructural properties of mango (Mangifera indica) kernel starch variety …

D Ramírez-Brewer, SE Quintana, LA García-Zapateiro - LWT, 2023 - Elsevier
Mango is a tropical fruit used in various agricultural food products. The purpose of the
research was to analyze the application of microwave treatment on the, technological …

Characterization of ulluco starch and its potential for use in edible films prepared at low drying temperature

A Galindez, LD Daza, A Homez-Jara, VS Eim… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to characterize the starch obtained from ulluco (US) and evaluate
its use in edible films prepared using different US concentrations (2.0, 2.5, and 3.0%) at low …

[PDF][PDF] Microalgae as new sources of starch: Isolation and characterization of microalgal starch granules

I Gifuni, G Olivieri, I Russo, GD Errico… - CHEMICAL …, 2017 - academia.edu
The present contribution reports a study on starch granules present in the microalga
Chlorella sorokiniana. The granules were isolated and a preliminary physico-chemical …

Production of a nascent cellulosic material from vegetable waste: Synthesis, characterization, functional properties, and its potency for a cationic dye removal

AK Biswal, L Panda, S Chakraborty, SK Pradhan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work reports the production of cellulose nanocrystals, CNC 30 and CNC 60,
developed using vegetable waste, ie, bottle gourd peel through sulfuric acid hydrolysis with …

[HTML][HTML] Dioscorea plants: a genus rich in vital nutra-pharmaceuticals-A review

B Salehi, B Sener, M Kilic, J Sharifi-Rad… - Iranian Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dioscorea species, known as “Yams,” belong to family Dioscoreaceae. This genus consists
of more than 600 species distributed from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean's South America, and …