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Alkenylbenzenes in Foods: Aspects Impeding the Evaluation of Adverse Health Effects

Foods, 2021
Alkenylbenzenes are naturally occurring secondary plant metabolites, primarily present in different herbs and spices, such as basil or fennel seeds. Thus, alkenylbenzenes, such as safrole, methyleugenol, and estragole, can be found in different foods ...
Andreas Eisenreich, Mario E. Götz, Benjamin Sachse, Bernhard H. Monien, Kristin Herrmann, Bernd Schäfer   +5 more
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The effect of drying of Piper hispidinervium by different methods and its influence on the yield of essential oil and safrole

Information Processing in Agriculture, 2023
The Piper hispidinervium leaves and thin stems were dried under laboratory and field conditions. Laboratory drying was performed using a shade dryer operating with and without forced convection and an oven dryer operating at 30 and 40 °C.
Helder Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Alberdan Silva Santos   +1 more
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Mixture of organic pollutants is associated with cognitive aging. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract INTRODUCTION Environmental organic pollutants impact brain function and cognitive aging, but the effect of real‐world complex mixtures of these pollutants is unexplored. METHODS Using data collected at two time points from 170 cognitively normal adults, we used hierarchical Bayesian kernel machine regression to examine the association between ...
Kalia V, Manz KE, Benavides J, Song S, Vollmer BL, Yan B, Goldsmith J, Pennell KD, Stern Y, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Miller GW, Habeck C, Gu Y.   +12 more
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Myristicin and Elemicin: Potentially Toxic Alkenylbenzenes in Food

Foods, 2022
Alkenylbenzenes represent a group of naturally occurring substances that are synthesized as secondary metabolites in various plants, including nutmeg and basil. Many of the alkenylbenzene-containing plants are common spice plants and preparations thereof
Mario E. Götz, Benjamin Sachse, Bernd Schäfer, Andreas Eisenreich   +3 more
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Nutmeg Beyond Spice: A Review on Its Therapeutic Potential, Safety and Industrial Promise. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
This review highlights the current findings on the pharmacological potential of M. fragrans, focusing on its health benefits and applications. M. fragrans contains alkaloids, terpenoids, phenols, flavonoids and glycosides; with myristicin, macelignan, safrole and sabinene as prime bioactive components.
Tariq D, Sultan MT, Noman AM, Raza H, Akram S, Mohamed HM, Khan MA, Imran M, Imran M, Hussain M, Memon AG, Atif M, Mohamed GA, Ibrahim SRM, Jbawi EA.   +14 more
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Modification of Synthesis Process of Lawang’s Bark (Cinnamomum cullilawan Blume) as a Cancer Drug Precursor

Jurnal Penelitian Hasil Hutan (Journal of Forest Products Research), 2016
Piperonal as a precursor of cancer drug (Curcumin analogues) can be synthesized from extract of lawang’s bark (Cinnamomum culilawan Blume) with multiple stages, among others: isolation of  essential oils, isolation safrole, safrole isomerization, and ...
Imanuel Berly Delvis Kapelle, Tun Tedja Irawadi, Meika Syahbana Rusli, Djumali Mangunwidjaja, Zainal Alim Mas'ud   +4 more
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In Vitro Antifungal Activity and Chemical Composition of Piper auritum Kunth Essential Oil against Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium equiseti

Agronomy, 2021
The essential oils of plants of the genus Piper have secondary metabolites that have antimicrobial activity related to their chemical composition. The objective of our work was to determine the chemical composition and evaluate the antifungal activity of
César Chacón, Emanuel Bojórquez-Quintal, Goretty Caamal-Chan, Víctor M. Ruíz-Valdiviezo, Joaquín A. Montes-Molina, Eduardo R. Garrido-Ramírez, Luis M. Rojas-Abarca, Nancy Ruiz-Lau   +7 more
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of an essential oil from the seeds of Myristica fragrans Houtt. (nutmeg oil) for all animal species (FEFANA asbl)

EFSA Journal, 2023
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of an essential oil from the seeds of Myristica fragrans Houtt.
EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Vasileios Bampidis, Giovanna Azimonti, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Secundino López Puente, Francesca Marcon, Baltasar Mayo, Alena Pechová, Mariana Petkova, Fernando Ramos, Yolanda Sanz, Roberto Edoardo Villa, Ruud Woutersen, Paul Brantom, Andrew Chesson, Josef Schlatter, Johannes Westendorf, Paola Manini, Birgit Dusemund   +22 more
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First phytochemical description of essential oils from Piper cachimboense (Piperales, Piperaceae) [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 2018
Piper cachimboense is recorded only for the Amazon region of Brazil and Colombia, and the objective of this study was to report the first phytochemical assessment of the composition of the essential oils (EOs) from this species collected in the Amazon ...
Diones KRINSKI, Luís Amilton FOERSTER, Cicero DESCHAMPS   +2 more
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Occurrence of Alkenylbenzenes in Plants: Flavours and Possibly Toxic Plant Metabolites

Plants, 2023
Alkenylbenzenes are naturally occurring secondary plant metabolites. While some of them are proven genotoxic carcinogens, other derivatives need further evaluation to clarify their toxicological properties.
Mario E. Götz, Andreas Eisenreich, Janine Frenzel, Benjamin Sachse, Bernd Schäfer   +4 more
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