Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché is a wild crop known in Mexico as "chilacayote" whose fruits are used as food. The fruits show a pericarp of different colors (whitish, creamy, various shades of green, striped or speckled) and seeds of white or black color. Recent studies report that this specie has remarkable...
In Mexico the consumption of flowers in feeding data from pre-Hispanic times, however this practice has been declining due to the lack of information about their properties. Recent studies have shown the presence of important bioactive molecules in wild and ornamental flowers, mainly compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which...
La seguridad de los alimentos ha sido siempre, un tema de salud pública importante. Se ha estimado que al menos el 30% de la población en países industrializados, padecen de algún trastorno gastro intestinal debido a alimentos manejados inadecuadamente (URL 1). El servicio de salud pública de los Estados Unidos...
The fruit of Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché is known in Mexico as chilacayote, it has medicinal properties such as anthelmintic, diuretic, taeniafuge, among others, highlighting its hypoglycemic effect, which has generated great scientific interest since its effect is 12.9% better than Opuntia streptacantha Lem., a species used to control glucose levels...
México es el principal productor de nopal en el mundo y el único país en el que este producto se consume como una hortaliza. En países como China, Corea e Italia, existe un interés por la implementación del cultivo, ya que el nopal además de fibra contiene compuestos antioxidantes como...
Currently, there is a growing interest in sustainable polymers particularly in basic applications such as packaging, edible films and coatings which biodegrade under controlled conditions of storage in order to alleviate the growing global synthetic materials waste problem. In this regard, the chitosan and its derivatives have demonstrated great potential...
Los flavonoides son compuestos de bajo peso molecular ubicuos en las plantas, en las que se encuentran generalmente unidos a otros tipos de compuestos, lo cual dificulta la identificación de los mismos. El interés sobre este tipo de polifenoles radica en sus propiedades funcionales, tal como la prevención de enfermedades...