Foods provide essential and bioactive compounds with health-promoting properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and hypocholesterolemic activities, which have been related to vitamins A, C, and E and phenolic ...

The objective of this work was to characterize exotic fruits (cambuci, araca-boi, camu-camu, jaracatia, araca) and commercial frozen pulps (araca, cambuci, umbu, coquinho, pana, native passion fruit, cagaita) from Brazil ...

The blackberry belongs to the Rosaceae family. In Brazil, this crop is little known. It’s production and commercialization are in small-scale, even this fruit showing significant health benefits. Therefore, a way to increase ...

Several epidemiological and research studies suggest that a high intake of foods rich in natural antioxidants increases the antioxidant capacity of the plasma and reduces the risk of some kinds of cancers, heart diseases, ...

Camu-camu is a tropical fruit with very high vitamin C content and commercialized as frozen pulp. Enthalpies of freezing, temperatures of the onset of ice melting, and glass transition temperatures of the maximally ...

The production of frozen pulps is a favorable means for the full use of fruits, avoiding problems related to seasonality. Heat treatments are necessary to eliminate contaminating microorganisms, inactivate enzymes and slow ...