Revalorization of Almond By-Products for the Design of Novel Functional Foods: An Updated Review.
The search for waste minimization and the valorization of by-products are key to good management and improved sustainability in the food industry. The great production of almonds, based on their high nutritional value as food, especially almond kernels, generates tons of waste yearly. The remaining parts (skin, shell, hulls, etc.) are still little explored, even […]
A complete workflow for discovering small bioactive peptides in foods by LC-MS/MS: A case study on almonds.
Identification of bioactive peptides is an increasingly important target for food chemists, particularly in consideration of the widespread application of proteolytic enzymes in food processing. Because the characterization of small peptides by LC-MS/MS is challenging, we optimized a dimethyl labeling technique to facilitate small peptide identification, using almond proteins as a model. The method was […]
An Updated Overview of Almond Allergens.
Tree nuts are considered an important food in healthy diets. However, for part of the world’s population, they are one of the most common sources of food allergens causing acute allergic reactions that can become life-threatening. They are part of the Big Eight food groups which are responsible for more than 90% of food allergy […]
Effect of Almond Consumption on Metabolic Risk Factors—Glucose Metabolism, Hyperinsulinemia, Selected Markers of Inflammation: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Adolescents and Young Adults.
A large percentage of the Indian population has diabetes or is at risk of pre-diabetes. Almond consumption has shown benefits on cardiometabolic risk factors in adults. This study explored the effect of almond consumption on determinants of metabolic dysfunction-blood glucose, lipids, insulin and selected inflammatory markers in adolescents and young adults aged 16-25 years from […]
Selective limb removal pruning and reflective ground covers improve light and crop distributions in the lower zone of ‘Nonpareil’almond trees but not total yield.
Conventional planting and management systems for almond (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb) orchards involve trees trained from an early age to produce multiple large scaffold branches, which in mature orchards form closed light inefficient canopies. Treatments included a single round of selective limb removal pruning applied at the start of the research to remove […]
Pyrolysis of Almond (Prunus amygdalus) Shells: Kinetic Analysis, Modelling, Energy Assessment and Technical Feasibility Studies.
The aim of this work was to study the thermogravimetric analysis through the pyrolysis of almond (Prunus amygdalus) shells for evaluating its potential for bioenergy at different heating rates (10, 25, and 50 K min-1). The activation energy values for the process were of the range of 153.0, 152.02, and 152.73 kJ mol-1 as calculated by […]
A complete workflow for discovering small bioactive peptides in foods by LC-MS/MS: A case study on almonds.
Identification of bioactive peptides is an increasingly important target for food chemists, particularly in consideration of the widespread application of proteolytic enzymes in food processing. Because the characterization of small peptides by LC-MS/MS is challenging, we optimized a dimethyl labeling technique to facilitate small peptide identification, using almond proteins as a model. The method was […]
Acceleration of lipid oxidation in raw stored almond kernels in response to postharvest moisture exposure.
Background: Almonds are an important crop in California, and increased yields necessitate that dried in-hull almonds are stored in the field for longer periods increasing the potential for postharvest moisture exposure (e.g. rain, fog, etc.). Processors are increasingly drying these 'wet' almonds to a moisture content of <6% using low heat before the hulling and shelling […]
High-throughput Analysis of Aflatoxins in Cereals, Nuts and Processed Products Involving Automated Immunoaffinity Cleanup and Inline HPLC-Fluorescence Detection.
Background: The testing of aflatoxins (AFs) in fresh and processed foods is highly demanded to comply with trade regulations. Consequently, commercial laboratories face huge AF sample loads in food consignments. Worldwide, there is a rising interest to implement automation to increase sample throughput in AF analysis. Objective: This study sought to evaluate the performance of an automated […]
Field Survival of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on California Tree Crops.
Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a polyphagous insect pest that has invaded much of the United States, including California. Despite model predictions that regions in California like the agriculturally important Central Valley are suitable, H. halys populations and the occurring crop damage are distinctly lower than in regions of the East Coast. To evaluate […]