Ana Blandino, M.E. Al-Aseeri, Severino S. Pandiella, Domingo Cantero et al.
Cereal grains constitute a major source of dietary nutrients all over the world. Although cereals are deficient in some basic components (e.g. essential aminoacids), fermentation may be the most simple and economical way of improving their nutritional value, sensory properties, and functional qualit...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Mahabub Alam, Prasanta Bhowmik et al.
Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. ...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Four selected Amaranthus tricolor cultivars were grown under four irrigation regimes (25, 50, 80, and 100% field capacity) to evaluate the mechanisms of growth and physiological and biochemical responses against drought stress in randomized complete block design with three replications. Drought stre...
Farjana Islam, Narayan Roy
This study was conducted to isolate, screening and purification of cellulase from bacteria present in sugar industry waste (molasses) and characterization by morphological and biochemical analysis. Based on experiments, three bacterial strains produced clear transparent zone into carboxymethyl cellu...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Four selected vegetable amaranths were grown under four soil water content to evaluate their response in nutrients, minerals, antioxidant leaf pigments, vitamins, polyphenol, flavonoid and total antioxidant activity (TAC). Vegetable amaranth was significantly affected by variety, soil water content ...
Sahar Abbasiliasi, Joo Shun Tan, Tengku Azmi Tengku Ibrahim, Fatemeh Bashokouh et al.
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are the major interest in food industry primarily by virtue of their biopreservative properties.
Neyres Zínia Taveira de Jesus, Heloina de Souza Falcão, Isis Fernandes Gomes, Thiago Jose de Almeida Leite et al.
This review of the current literature aims to study correlations between the chemical structure and gastric anti-ulcer activity of tannins. Tannins are used in medicine primarily because of their astringent properties. These properties are due to the fact that tannins react with the tissue proteins ...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Abstract Six selected weedy Amaranthus genotypes (three accessions from each species of A. viridis and A. spinosus ) were evaluated in terms of nutrients, minerals, antioxidant constituents and antioxidant activity for the possibilities of weedy species as a vegetable cultivar in a randomized comple...
Umakanta Sarker, Tofazzal Islam, Shinya Oba
Impact of salinity stress were investigated in three selected Amaranthus tricolor accessions in terms of nutrients, dietary fiber, minerals, antioxidant phytochemicals and total antioxidant activity in leaves. Salinity stress enhanced biochemical contents and antioxidant activity in A. tricolor leav...
Ítala Laiane Silva Gomes, J. Gomes, Walter Steiner
Five strains of the extreme thermophilic Rhodothermus marinus were screened for the production of amylolytic and pullulytic activities. The culture medium for the selected strain, R. marinus ITI 990, was optimized using central composite designs for enhanced enzyme production. The optimized medium c...
M. Z. Hoque, Fahmida Akter, Kamal Hossain, Mohammad Shahedur Rahman et al.
Yoghurt is a potential source of probiotic lactobacilli. In the present study, Lactobacillus spp. were isolated from two regional yoghurts in Bangladesh, which were identified on the basis of their colony morphologies and some biochemical tests. It was observed that isolated Lactobacillus spp. were ...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Abstract A. blitum is good sources of abundant natural antioxidant phytopigments such as anthocyanin, betalain, betaxanthin, and betacyanin and antioxidant phytochemicals of interest in the food industry. The chances of utilizing amaranth pigments and phytochemicals had been evaluated for extracting...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Four selected A. gangeticus accessions were evaluated in terms of color attributes, phytopigments, including betaxanthin, betacyanin, and carotenoid profiles, proximate, minerals, and antioxidant capacity (AC). Color attributes, phytopigments, proximate, minerals, and AC of A. gangeticus significant...
Md. Nazmul Hasan, M.Z. Sultan, M. Mar-E-Um
Fermenting foods can make poorly digested, reactive foods into health giving foods. The process of fermentation destroys many of the harmful microorganisms and chemicals in foods and adds beneficial bacteria. These bacteria produce new enzymes to assist in the digestion. Foods that benefit from ferm...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Abstract A. hypochondriacus leaves contained ample phytopigments including betalain, anthocyanin, β-xanthin, β-cyanin, and bioactive phytochemicals of interest in the industry of food. We have been evaluating the possibility of utilizing phytopigments of amaranth and bioactive constituents for makin...