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Conservation status of species used in the UK herbal medicine industry
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Given the ongoing biodiversity crisis, sustainable use and management of medicinal plants is critical. We assessed the conservation status, threats and conservation actions of 298 species sold by UK suppliers to medical herbalists. We found that most species used are unevaluated, representing a gap in conservation knowledge, and of those with ...
Isabella Flowers +2 more
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Development of Inhibitory Technique for Astringency Recurrence in Astringent Persimmon Fruit
Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi, 2010 渋カキ果実は，アルコールや炭酸ガス等によって脱渋処理することにより，渋みが消失する．しかし，脱渋処理後に果実を加熱すると，再び渋くなる．この現象が渋カキの食品への加工を阻害している．本研究において，カキ‘会津身不知’果実に少量の分子量3000から5000のコラーゲンペプチドを加え，室温で混合することによって短時間でカキの味を損ねずに脱渋する方法を開発した．また，この方法により加熱による渋もどりも抑制できることが明らかとなった．開発した技術によって，渋カキを様々な食品に利用できることの可能性が示唆された．
Yuko Goto, Osamu Watanabe
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sorghum is a staple food for hundreds of millions of people in dry regions worldwide, and improving its nutritional quality is vital for global food and health security under climate change. In this study, we evaluated traditional Sudanese sorghum varieties grown in eastern deltas to better understand their natural health‐promoting properties. We found
Khitma A. Sir Elkhatim +5 more
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From wild to tamed: Reimagining novel crops through omics and local plant diversity
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The global food system faces growing pressure from climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising nutritional demands. Agriculture has increased yields but reduced crop diversity, flavor, and nutritional quality, leaving societies vulnerable and dependent on a narrow set of staple species.
Alexandra Sanfeliu Meliá +1 more
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Estudi d'un receptari manuscrit català del s. XIX [PDF]
, 2017 L'objectiu d'aquesta comunicació ésdonar a conèixer les aportacions d'uns receptaris manuscrits catalans inèdits dels s. XVIII i XIX, per la informació que ens aporten de receptes utilitzades per malalties, de teràpia definida amb connotacions populars ...
Carmona i Cornet, Anna M. +1 more
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The Relationship between Astringency and the Reaction Aspects of Astringents for Protein
NIPPON SHOKUHIN KOGYO GAKKAISHI, 1972 The astringency of multivalent metallic salts, vegetable tannins, dehydrating solvents and halogenated acetic acids were measured organoleptically to obtain their threshold values which varied from 0.038% to 0.075%. The astringency of these substances were also accompanied by bitter, sour or sweet taste. Dehydrating solvents such as alcohol and acetone
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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The use of waste as steel for sirya cementing materials [PDF]
, 2015 Встановлено можливість використання відходів металургійних підприємств в якості сировини для виготовлення в’яжучих матеріалів. Наведено їх склади та властивості.The possibility of using waste steel plants as raw material for the manufacture of binding ...
Пітак, Олег Ярославович
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