Chemical constituents and health effects of sweet potato

S Wang, S Nie, F Zhu - Food Research International, 2016 - Elsevier
Sweet potatoes are becoming a research focus in recent years due to their unique nutritional
and functional properties. Bioactive carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, carotenoids …

[HTML][HTML] The use of plants in the traditional management of diabetes in Nigeria: Pharmacological and toxicological considerations

UF Ezuruike, JM Prieto - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance The prevalence of diabetes is on a steady increase
worldwide and it is now identified as one of the main threats to human health in the 21st …

Development of antioxidant and intelligent pH-sensing packaging films by incorporating purple-fleshed sweet potato extract into chitosan matrix

H Yong, X Wang, R Bai, Z Miao, X Zhang, J Liu - Food hydrocolloids, 2019 - Elsevier
Antioxidant and intelligent pH-sensing films were prepared by incorporating anthocyanin-
rich purple-fleshed sweet potato extract (PSPE) into chitosan matrix. Effect of PSPE …

Monitoring freshness of chicken using intelligent pH indicator packaging film composed of polyvinyl alcohol/guar gum integrated with Ipomoea coccinea extract

K Akhila, A Sultana, D Ramakanth, KK Gaikwad - Food Bioscience, 2023 - Elsevier
With enormous amounts of food being wasted at every level of consumption, the future of
food security is in jeopardy. The confusion aroused due to “best before” or “use by” can be …

Sweet potato is not simply an abundant food crop: A comprehensive review of its phytochemical constituents, biological activities, and the effects of processing

EP Laveriano-Santos, A López-Yerena… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, sweet potato (Ipomoea batata L.; Lam.) is considered a very interesting nutritive
food because it is rich in complex carbohydrates, but as a tubercle, contains high amounts of …

Conventional, ultrasound-assisted, and accelerated-solvent extractions of anthocyanins from purple sweet potatoes

Z Cai, Z Qu, Y Lan, S Zhao, X Ma, Q Wan, P **g, P Li - Food Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Purple sweet potatoes (PSPs) are rich in anthocyanins. In this study, we investigated the
extraction efficiency of anthocyanins from PSPs using conventional extraction (CE) …

Antioxidant and prebiotic activity of five peonidin-based anthocyanins extracted from purple sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.)

H Sun, P Zhang, Y Zhu, Q Lou, S He - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Twelve kinds of anthocyanins from the Chinese purple sweet potato cultivar (Ipomoea
batatas (L.) Lam.) were extracted and identified using LC-MS/MS, which had a high content …

Functional characterization of dihydroflavonol-4-reductase in anthocyanin biosynthesis of purple sweet potato underlies the direct evidence of anthocyanins function …

H Wang, W Fan, H Li, J Yang, J Huang, P Zhang - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Dihydroflavonol-4-reductase (DFR) is a key enzyme in the catalysis of the stereospecific
reduction of dihydroflavonols to leucoanthocyanidins in anthocyanin biosynthesis. In the …

De novo assembly of the complete mitochondrial genome of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam) revealed the existence of homologous conformations generated …

Z Yang, Y Ni, Z Lin, L Yang, G Chen, N Nijiati, Y Hu… - BMC Plant …, 2022 - Springer
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam) is an important food crop, an excellent fodder crop,
and a new type of industrial raw material crop. The lack of genomic resources could affect …

High-speed countercurrent chromatography as an efficient technique for large separation of plant polyphenols: A review

L Li, J Zhao, T Yang, B Sun - Food Research International, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyphenols, which are commonly found in fruits, vegetables, cereals, and legumes, are the
most abundant dietary antioxidants. To date, numerous studies have demonstrated the …