According to Western medicine literature regarding hypertension control, it is imperative control the consumption of salt. But dietary habits to reduce weight and the adequate ingestion of minerals such as potassium, magnesium and others has their role in control hypertension too. In traditional Chinese medicine, hypertension has many energies causes and depending on the cause that is producing hypertension, the patients’ needs to avoid some kinds of foods that could imbalance even more the energy disturbances that is generation hypertension.
The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition and antioxidant activity of methanol extract of Chrysophyllum africanum leaves and pulp. Results revealed that the leaves contain considerable amounts of minerals and vitamins as follows: 14.14 mg/100 g for iron, 2.37 mg/100g for potassium, 1434.38 mg/100 g for manganese, 82.71 mg/100 g for magnesium, 185.49 mg/100g for calcium, 28.33 mg/kg for ascorbic acid, 13.33 mg/kg for thiamine and 55.83 mg/kg for pyridoxine. Furthermore, it was found that both the leaves and pulps were also rich in the following: 297.49-304.94 mg QE/100 g for total flavonoids, 2086.98-2304.72 mg GAE/100 g for total phenolics, 1.6-96400 mg/kg for citric acid and 130.23-515.23 mg/100 g for tannins. Our results therefore demonstrate that could serve as supplementary source of essential nutrients and antioxidant components with health benefits.
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Fast development in the field of agriculture and food technology has held to production of large amount of industrial residues without proper treatment. So, their disposal becomes serious environment issue for developing countries. In the present study, this issue was focused and agro industrial banana peel waste was utilised for production of value added , industrially important product such as antimicrobial edible active food packaging films. The study was conducted at Foods and Nutrition department of Saurashtra University Rajkot Gujarat – 365601 .Banana peels of (Musa acuminata) variety was procured from Saurashtra region of Amreli from which a novel product like antimicrobial edible active food packaging film was prepared. Biochemical, microbiological, sensory and statistical tests were performed for developed product. Significance of study was tested by T- test at 5 % level of significance with a t value of antimicrobial edible film was 2.45. After the complete analysis, it can be concluded that the present study was successful trial for utilization of agro waste for production of value added products. As conclusion , the produced films has promising applications for food packaging industry because of its high tensile strength and solubility or biodegradability .They can serve as an innovation to current food packaging industry because of their edible and antimicrobial nature.
Statistic expectations reveal that over 1000 million people living in arid regions can be definitely challenged with unpolluted water scarcity in 2025 due to accepted solvent assets of water and urbanization, industrialization. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based composite are the splendid materials used for the purification of water. In this study highly water stable Mn-PBA/GO (Manganese Prussian Blue Analoge/ Graphene Oxide) was successfully synthesized by using simple hydrothermal technique in excellent yield and characterized via the use of FTIR, SEM, BET, XPS, UV and XRD. From the characterization it was showed that this composite contains noticeably porous structure and can be castoff for the confiscation of heavy metals arsenic and lead from water by means of adsorptive method. The adsorption behavior of arsenic and lead was studied by using Mn-PBA/GO in water medium. The adsorption kinetics of arsenic and lead metals followed by kinetic model (pseudo second order). Mn-PBA and Mn-PBA/GO exhibits excellent adsorption capability 188.39 mg/g and 1162.52 mg/g for Pb(II), 56.28 mg/g and 262.36 mg/g for dimethyl arsenate (DMA), 66.65 mg/g and 383.52 mg/g for As(III), 82.19 mg/g and 497.49 mg/g for As(V) respectively. The adsorption mechanism, Langmuir was well fitted and having maximum R2 values for both metals. This selective adsorption is mostly due to existence of electrostatics, hydrogen bonding and π-π stacking interaction between composite and heavy metals present in the water. Recycling of composite (five times) also represent good results as much as 95%. From these results it was revealed that Mn-PBA/ GO composite can be used for the removal of arsenic and lead as well as organic arsenic from waste water. From this study it was established that an upsurge in the number of active sites can dramatically improve the adsorption capacity of adsorbent for the removal of pollutants from water.
