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Cruciferous Vegetables and Their Bioactive Metabolites: from Prevention to Novel Therapies of Colorectal Cancer

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2022
The Brassicaceae family, known as cruciferous vegetables, includes many economically important species, mainly edible oil plants, vegetable species, spice plants, and feed plants.
D. Ağagündüz, Teslime Özge Şahin, Birsen Yılmaz, Kübra Damla Ekenci, Şehriban Duyar Özer, R. Capasso   +5 more
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Heavy metals assessment in water, soil, vegetables and their associated health risks via consumption of vegetables, District Kasur, Pakistan

SN Applied Sciences, 2021
The consumption of contaminated vegetables has a great impact on human health. Due to this fact, we conduct the study to estimate the heavy metals in groundwater, soil, and vegetables by using the atomic adsorption spectroscopy (AAS) and find out the ...
Imtiaz Ashraf, Faizan Ahmad, A. Sharif, Adnan Raza Altaf, H. Teng   +4 more
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Levels of heavy metals in soil and vegetables and associated health risks in Mojo area, Ethiopia

PLoS ONE, 2020
Health implications to the population due to the consumption of contaminated vegetables has been a great concern all over the world. In this study, the levels of heavy metals (Cr, Cd, Zn, Fe, Pb, As, Mn, Cu, Hg, Ni and Co) in soil and commonly consumed ...
Hailu Reta Gebeyehu, Leta Danno Bayissa
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Fruits, vegetables, and health: A comprehensive narrative, umbrella review of the science and recommendations for enhanced public policy to improve intake

Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 2020
Fruit and vegetables (F&V) have been a cornerstone of healthy dietary recommendations; the 2015–2020 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that F&V constitute one-half of the plate at each meal.
T. Wallace, R. Bailey, J. Blumberg, B. Burton-Freeman, C. Chen, K. Crowe-White, A. Drewnowski, S. Hooshmand, Elizabeth J Johnson, Richard D. Lewis, R. Murray, S. Shapses, D. Wang   +12 more
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Comparison of Traditional and Novel Drying Techniques and Its Effect on Quality of Fruits, Vegetables and Aromatic Herbs

Foods, 2020
Drying is known as the best method to preserve fruits, vegetables, and herbs, decreasing not only the raw material volume but also its weight. This results in cheaper transportation and increments the product shelf life, limiting the food waste.
Á. Calín-Sánchez, L. Lipan, M. Cano-Lamadrid, A. Kharaghani, Klaudia Masztalerz, Á. Carbonell-Barrachina, A. Figiel   +6 more
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Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa

Genome Biology, 2021
Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely unknown.
Xu Cai, Lichun Chang, Tingting Zhang, Haixu Chen, Lei Zhang, Runmao Lin, Jianli Liang, Jian Wu, Michael Freeling, Xiaowu Wang   +9 more
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Unravelling the Genetic Architecture of Rust Resistance in the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by Combining QTL-Seq and GWAS Analysis

Plants, 2022
The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important legume crop directly used for human consumption worldwide. Bean rust, caused by Uromyces appendiculatus, is a devastating disease and usually causes severe loss of seed yield and pod quality ...
Xinyi Wu, Baogen Wang, Yan Xin, Ying Wang, Shuo Tian, Jian Wang, Xiaohua Wu, Zhongfu Lu, Xinjiang Qi, Liming Xu, Guojing Li   +10 more
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Low-income consumers' attitudes and behaviour towards access, availability and motivation to eat fruit and vegetables [PDF]

, 2003
To determine low-income consumers' attitudes and behaviour towards fruit and vegetables, in particular issues of access to, affordability of and motivation to eat fruit and vegetables.
Bobbin, R.F., Dibsdall, L.A., Frewer, L.J., Lambert, N.   +3 more
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Microbial Contamination, an Increasing Threat to the Consumption of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Today's World

International Journal of Microbiology, 2020
Microbes are found all over the globe with some few exceptions, including sterilized surfaces. They include normal flora that is nonpathogenic, which contribute to the larger percentage, and pathogenic species which are few.
G. I. Balali, D. Yar, Vera Gobe Afua Dela, Priscilla Adjei-Kusi   +3 more
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Development of a core set of single nucleotide polymorphism markers for genetic diversity analysis and cultivar fingerprinting in cowpea

Legume Science, 2021
Cowpea is an important legume crop worldwide. However, the diversity and relationship of current accessions remain unclear due to a lack of robust genetic information.
Xinyi Wu, Baogen Wang, Suqi Wu, Sujuan Li, Yan Zhang, Ying Wang, Yanwei Li, Jian Wang, Xiaohua Wu, Zhongfu Lu, Guojing Li   +10 more
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