Natural products as antimicrobial agents

R Gyawali, SA Ibrahim - Food control, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The use of natural antimicrobial compounds in food has gained much attention by the
consumers and the food industry. This is due primarily to two major factors. First, the misuse …

A review on antimicrobial activity of mushroom (Basidiomycetes) extracts and isolated compounds

MJ Alves, ICFR Ferreira, J Dias, V Teixeira… - Planta …, 2012‏ - thieme-connect.com
Despite the huge diversity of antibacterial compounds, bacterial resistance to first-choice
antibiotics has been drastically increasing. Moreover, the association between multiresistant …

Antioxidants in wild mushrooms

ICFR Ferreira, L Barros, R Abreu - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2009‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Maintenance of equilibrium between free radical production and antioxidant defences
(enzymatic and non enzymatic) is an essential condition for normal organism functioning …

Green tea and grape seed extracts—Potential applications in food safety and quality

AVS Perumalla, NS Hettiarachchy - Food Research International, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Using “natural green” plant extracts or their derived products in various food and beverage
applications is an increasing trend in the food industry. Selection of these plant extracts and …

Plant mediated green synthesis and antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles using Emblica officinalis fruit extract

PS Ramesh, T Kokila, D Geetha - … Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
A green straight forward method of synthesizing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in an aqueous
medium was designed using Emblica officinalis (EO) fruit extract as stabilizer and reducer …

Wild and commercial mushrooms as source of nutrients and nutraceuticals

L Barros, T Cruz, P Baptista, LM Estevinho… - Food and Chemical …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
In order to promote the use of mushrooms as source of nutrients and nutraceuticals, several
experiments were performed in wild and commercial species. The analysis of nutrients …

Bioactive metabolites from macrofungi: ethnopharmacology, biological activities and chemistry

DD De Silva, S Rapior, E Sudarman, M Stadler, J Xu… - Fungal Diversity, 2013‏ - Springer
Exploration of natural sources for novel bioactive compounds has been an emerging field of
medicine over the past decades, providing drugs or lead compounds of considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant activities of extracts from five edible mushrooms using different extractants

S Boonsong, W Klaypradit, P Wilaipun - Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Extractions were performed of the total phenolic and flavonoid contents and antioxidant
properties of five edible mushroom samples—Lentinus edodes, Volvariella volvacea …

Total phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and radical scavenging activity of 21 selected tropical plants

RA Mustafa, AA Hamid, S Mohamed… - Journal of food …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Free radical scavenging activity of 21 tropical plant extracts was evaluated using 1, 1‐
diphenyl‐2‐picrylhydrazyl assay (DPPH). Total phenolic compounds and flavonoids were …

Antioxidant activity of Smilax excelsa L. leaf extracts

N Ozsoy, A Can, R Yanardag, N Akev - Food chemistry, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Smilax excelsa L. leaves are used widely in the Black Sea region of Turkey for consumption
in the daily diet and in folk medicine for their medicinal properties. In the present study …