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The Principal Component Analysis showed that blueberry groups can be distinguished based on their phenolic compound profile.Large uptakes of nitrite have been proven to be detrimental to human health, therefore, the development of high-performance nitrite sensors is highly emergent. Herein, a carbon selenide nanofilms modified carbon fiber cloth (CSe2 NF/CC) electrode was obtained via in-situ synthesis to detect nitrite. The electrode integrates the collective merits of macroporous CC and pleated carbon selenide nanofilms, possessing a low overpotential of 0.83 V, a high electrochemical active surface area (EASA) of 5.39 cm2, great electrical conductivity, and fast charge transport as well as ion diffusion. The proposed electrode achieved a low limit of detection of 0.04 μmol L-1 (S/N = 3), a high sensitivity of 2048.56 μA mmol L-1 cm-2, excellent selectivity, and long-term stability. Additionally, the CSe2 NF/CC was successfully used for nitrite detection in different food samples such as pickled vegetables and sausage samples.Palm-pressed mesocarp oil has been found to contain plenty of naturally occurring valuable phytonutrients. The application and study of the oil are limited, therefore, quality assessment of refined red palm-pressed mesocarp olein (PPMO) is deemed necessary to provide data in widening the applications as a niche products or raw material for the nutraceutical industry. Results showed that refined PPMO has comparable physicochemical properties and oxidative stability with commercial cooking oil, palm olein (PO). The food safety parameters and contaminants (PAH, 3-MCPD ester, 2-MCPD ester, glycidyl ester and trace metals) analyses proven that refined PPMO is safe to be consumed. Besides, refined PPMO contains remarkably greater concentrations of phytonutrients including carotenoids, phytosterols, squalene and vitamin E than PO, postulating its protective health benefits. Selleck Tegatrabetan The overall quality assessment of refined PPMO showed that it is suitable for human consumption and it is a good source for food applications and dietary nutritional supplements.Folate is a fundamental vitamin for metabolism in plants and humans. A modelling approach has been developed to characterize the reactivity of folates in cowpea seeds during germination at 30 °C, using a water-to-seed ratio of 11 (w/w). For this purpose, the concentrations of folic acid, 10-formylfolic acid, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, 5-formyltetrahydrofolate and tetrahydrofolate were determined in seeds during germination times up to 96 h. Two reaction models were sequentially built and adjusted to experimental data to describe changes in concentration in cowpea seed during two germination phases before 14 h and after 48 h. Results showed intense enzymatic interconversion of all folate vitamers into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate before 14 h of germination and high enzymatic production of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, 5-formyltetrahydrofolate and tetrahydrofolate after 48 h of germination. This study suggests that a long germination process could be more beneficial than soaking to increase the production of bioavailable folates within the seed for human consumption.This study aimed to produce four different beverages from okara (soybean by-product) previously hydrolyzed by Cynara cardunculus enzymes and fermented by probiotic bacteria or unfermented beverage. The probiotic viable cells, the isoflavones profile and organic acids were evaluated in the okara beverage. In addition, total phenolic content, antioxidant and ACE inhibitory activities were evaluated at storage time and during in vitro gastrointestinal digestion of all beverages. The probiotic was viable throughout storage in all fermented beverages. The significant bioconversion of the isoflavone glycosides into their corresponding bioactive aglycones was observed in fermented beverage. Furthermore, the beverages showed a good ACE inhibitory activity. After gastrointestinal tract, all beverages showed an increase in the antioxidant and ACE inhibitory activities. In conclusion, this study shows that the application of okara for a multifunctional beverage could be a promising strategy in the disease prevention and contribution to a zero waste approach in food industry.Bisphenol S (BPS), a structural analog of Bisphenol A (BPA), has been widely used as a substitute for epoxy resin, food packaging materials, and other products due to the limited application of BPA. Studies in vivo and in vitro have indicated that BPA could induce fat accumulation like an obesogen. The main goal of this study was to investigate the role and mechanism of BPS in lipid metabolism using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model. Results showed that both the overall fat deposition and the triglyceride level were significantly increased in a non-monotonically increasing trend, and the low dose of BPS (0.01 μM) exhibited a stronger influence. Additionally, BPS enhanced fat synthesis depending on daf-16, fat-5, fat-6 and fat-7, and inhibited fatty acid oxidation via nhr-49 and acs-2. This study further indicate that fat accumulation induced by BPS requires nhr-49, which also mediated the nuclear hormone signaling pathway.Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) prepared by a green one-step approach was used for sensitive and selective assay of Escherichia coli O157 H7 (E. coli). CQDs was synthesized from orange peel as a carbon source via a microwave-assisted method. The CQDs displayed strong green fluorescence under excitation wavelength of 420 nm. A fluorescent probe (CQDs-MNPs) for E. coli was fabricated based on CQDs labeled with aptamer (aptamer-CQDs) and magnetic nanoparticles labeled with complementary DNA (cDNA-MNPs). Fluorescent intensity of the CQDs-MNPs was decreased with addition of E. coli. The linearity between fluorescent intensity and E. coli concentration was used for developing a fluorescent method with detecting range of 500-106 CFU/mL and detection limit of 487 CFU/mL. Milk samples contaminated by E. coli were analyzed by this method, and the results agreed with that achieved by plate-counting methods. This fluorescent probe exhibits great potential in guaranteeing food quality and safety.