Food Biotechnology
Hediyeh Yousefipour; Mohammad Amin Mehrnia; Behrooz Alizadeh Behbahani; Hossein Jooyandeh; Mohammad Hojjati
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[1]Introduction: Herbs and spices, which are essential part of the human diet, have been used in traditional medicine to increase the flavor, color, and aroma of various foods and food products. Herbs and spices are also known as preservative, antioxidative, and antimicrobial agents. Plant extracts and ...
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[1]Introduction: Herbs and spices, which are essential part of the human diet, have been used in traditional medicine to increase the flavor, color, and aroma of various foods and food products. Herbs and spices are also known as preservative, antioxidative, and antimicrobial agents. Plant extracts and their components with pathogen-growth suppression effect and little toxicity to host cells could be considered as excellent candidates for developing new antimicrobial agents. Trigonella foenum- graceum is an annual herbaceous plant with bright yellow and sometimes purple-white flowers. Therapeutic effects of this plant include analgesia, anti-cancer, and treatment of diabetes by lowering blood sugar and lowering blood lipids. In ancient Egypt, this plant was used to embalm the dead and incense. The seeds of the plant are used to treat leprosy, hemorrhoids, and relieve bronchitis. The seeds of this plant contain various compounds such as vitamins, amino acids, saponins, fatty acids, and flavonoids. The antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of T. foenum have been detrmined byvarious studies. This study was therefore aimed to produce the T. foenum extract and evaluate its antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. Materials and methods: Fifty g of powdered plant was added to 250 mL of water and stirred for 72 h. The solution was passed through the Whatman filter paper and then centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min to discard the suspended solids. Next, a vacuum evaporator was used to remove the excess water and the obtained extract was packed and kept away from light at 4 °C. Total phenol and flavonoid contents were measured by colorimetric methods. The antimicrobial effect of the extract on Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus and Candida albicans was evaluated using disc diffusion agar (DDA), well diffusion agar (WDA), minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal /fungicidal concentration (MBC/MFC) methods. Interaction of aqueous extract and Chloramphenicol and Amphotericin B was also evaluated. Antioxidant effect of the extract was determined by ABTS, DPPH, and β-carotene/linoleic acid bleaching assay. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was also used to identify the functional groups. Results and discussion: Total phenol and flavonoid contents of the extract were 46.60 mg GAE/g and 37.57 mg QE/g, respectively. The aqueous extract also showed antioxidant effects of 60.55, 55.53 and 50.40%, based on DPPH, ABTS methods and β-carotene/linoleic acid assay, respectively. T. foenum aqueous extract had the inhibitory effect on all examined microorganisms, at all concentrations (20, 40, 60 and 80 mg/mL). The antibiotic effect of chloramphenicol for E. coli, E. aerogenes, S. aureus and B. cereus was 13.30, 14.50, 18 and 19.10 mm, respectively, and the effect of this antibiotic for C. albicans was not measured. Also, the antibiotic effect of amphotericin B for C. albicans was 15.10 mm. Furthermore, the interaction of T. foenum aqueous extract with the antibiotic chloramphenicol presented a synergistic effect on the examined bacteria and led to a significant increase in inhibition zone diameter. Additionally, the interaction of the extract with antibiotics showed a synergistic effect on C. albicans. In infrared spectrum, peaks at 3370, 2965, and 1613 cm-1 were related to stretching vibration of O-H, C-H, C=C bonds of aromatic ring and aromatic groups of T. foenum aqueous extract. In general, the extract of T. foenum could be used as a natural antioxidant and antimicrobial agent in food and pharmaceutical industries.
Roya Kazemizadeh; Vajiheh Fadaei Noghani
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Introduction: Flavored milk is a healthy beverage, nutritious, delicious and thirst elimination by a large group of people, especially children consumed. Therefore, the need to find different ways to enhance the nutritional value of milk and its products is of many researchrs’ interest.Pomegranate ...
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Introduction: Flavored milk is a healthy beverage, nutritious, delicious and thirst elimination by a large group of people, especially children consumed. Therefore, the need to find different ways to enhance the nutritional value of milk and its products is of many researchrs’ interest.Pomegranate fruits peel is an inedible part obtained during processing of pomegranate juice. Pomegranate peel is a rich source of tannins, flavonoids and other phenolic compounds;which is currentlybeingwidely used in medicine and food industry. Moreover, consumers prefer to use natural antioxidants rather than synthetic ones. The datedatesyrup has unique odor and taste; it has high potential to be a new sweetener which is natural and chemical-free. Datesyrup hasa natural sweetness and is considered easy to digest. Also, it has low fat, no cholesterol and saturated fat and a good source of dietary fiber is considered. In this study, the effect ofaqueous extract of pomegranate peel adding at levels 10%, 20%, 30% and datedatesyrup adding at levels 2%, 4% and 6% on antioxidant property, total polyphenols contents andmicrobial total countof functional flavored milk was investigated during 21-day cold storage. Materials and method: Raw milk from Deniz factory (Iran), date syrup with Brix ° 83 from Dombaz company (Iran), Reagent Folin - Ciocalteau, reagent 2,2-Di Phenyl-1-Picryl Hydrazyl(DPPH) and gallic acid mono-hydrated from Sigma (America) were prepared. Other laboratory chemicals and PC-AGARCulture media from Merck (Germany) was purchased.Also, pomegranate variety of Shiraz Black Tail (Iran) was used.Preparation ofAqueous extract of pomegranate peelFresh pomegranate was washed and peeled and stored at room temperature away from sunlight for a week. 50gr of powdered pomegranate peelwas mixed with 500 ml of distilled water with temperature of 30°Cand was maintained at 30°C for 12 hours.Preparation of flavored milkThe milk used for producing functional flavored milk samples was preheated at 50ºC, then date syrup was addedat levels of 2%, 4% and 6% and aqueous extract of pomegranate peel was also added at levels of 10%, 20% and 30% to milk and the whole mixture was mixed for 5 minutes; The mixture was then heated to75ºCfor 15 minutes. After cooling at 25°C, flavored milksamples were refrigeratedat 4ºC.Determination of antioxidant activityThe antioxidant activityof flavored milk samples was measured according to Elfalleh et al. (2012) method using model CARY 50spectrophotometer,Australia, at 517 nm by a Radical Scavenging Activity (RSA) and DPPH reagent .Determination of total polyphenolsThe total polyphenolsof flavored milk samples were measured according to Elfalleh et al. (2012) method usingmodel CARY 50spectrophotometer,Australia, at 765 nm by Folin- Ciocalteu reagent. The amount of phenol content was calculated by standard curve of gallic acid .Microbial total countMicrobialtotal count was determinedin plate count agar according to Iranian National Standard no.5484. Sample plates were incubated in model zn1434incubator, Iran, at 31 ° C for 72 hours.Experimental designIn this study, A completely randomized design was employed usng SAS software (version 9.1) to determinate the antioxidant activity, total polyphenols and microbial count. The experiment was consisted of three factors including pomegranate peel extract (in three levels 10, 20 and 30%), date syrup factor (in three levels 2, 4 and 6%) and time (in four days 0, 7, 14 and 21).Results and Discussion: According to present research, with adding pomegranate peel extract percentage of free radical scavenging and total polyphenols content increased (p
