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| Title |
Extensive profiling of three varieties of Opuntia spp. fruit for innovative food ingredients
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| Published in |
Food Research International, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.09.024 |
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| Authors |
Bruno Melgar, Eliana Pereira, M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira, Esperanza M. Garcia-Castello, Antonio D. Rodriguez-Lopez, Marina Sokovic, Lillian Barros, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira |
| Abstract |
Consumer interest in the use of natural ingredients is creating a growing trend in the food industry, leading to research into the development of natural products such as colorants, antimicrobials and antioxidant compounds. This work involves an extensive morphological (using physico-chemical assays), chemical (antioxidant activity assays) and microbiological (Gram-positive and negative strains) characterization of prickly peras (Opuntia ficus-indica (OFI) var. sanguigna, gialla and Opuntia engelmannii) fruits. Through chromatographic assays, these species have shown interesting contents of hydrophilic (sugars, organic acids and betalains) and lipophilic (tocopherols and fatty acids) compounds. While Opuntia engelmannii exhibited higher content of betacyanins and mucilage, OFI varieties sanguigna and gialla displayed greater organic acid content. The sanguigna variety also showed the highest α-tocopherol content. All this compounds could be the responsible of enhancing the bioactivity of this variety, which can be observed in its antimicrobial potential, tested in the studied strains too. Results revealed that Opuntia spp. could be used as a nutraceutical and/or food additive, maintaining and promoting health and life quality. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 98 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 14% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Professor | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 19% |
| Unknown | 26 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 24% |
| Chemistry | 10 | 10% |
| Engineering | 9 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2017.
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#17,292,294
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#2,530
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#207,773
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#64
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