Consumption of peanut products improves memory and stress response in healthy adults from the ARISTOTLE study: a 6-month randomized controlled trial

Background: Peanuts are rich in bioactive compounds that may have a positive impact on memory and stress response. Objective: To evaluate the effect of regular consumption of peanut products on cognitive functions and stress response in healthy young adults. Design: A three-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted in 63 healthy young adults that consumed […]

Nuts: Natural Pleiotropic Nutraceuticals

Common nuts (tree nuts and peanuts) are energy-dense foods that nature has gifted with a complex matrix of beneficial nutrients and bioactives, including monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, high-quality protein, fiber, non-sodium minerals, tocopherols, phytosterols, and antioxidant phenolics. These nut components synergize to favorably influence metabolic and vascular physiology pathways, ameliorate cardiovascular risk factors and […]

Combining allergen components improves the accuracy of peanut allergy diagnosis.

Background: IgE to peanut often occurs in the absence of peanut allergy. Detection of allergen component sIgE has improved diagnosis and birthed molecular allergen component arrays, in which sensitisation to multiple allergen components can be measured simultaneously. Objective: To improve the diagnostic utility of serology for peanut allergy, by mapping interactions of sIgE to multiple […]

Irradiation technology: An Effective and Promising Strategy for Eliminating Food Allergens.

Food allergies are one of the major health concerns worldwide and have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent times. The elimination of food allergenicity has been an important issue in current research on food. Irradiation is a typical nonthermal treatment technology that can effectively reduce the allergenicity of food, showing great application prospects […]

Epigenetic programming underpins B‐cell dysfunction in peanut and multi‐food allergy.

Objective: Rates of IgE-mediated food allergy (FA) have increased over the last few decades, and mounting evidence implicates disruption of epigenetic profiles in various immune cell types in FA development. Recent data implicate B-cell dysfunction in FA; however, few studies have examined epigenetic changes within these cells. Methods: We assessed epigenetic and transcriptomic profiles in […]

The association between insulin resistance and the consumption of nut including peanut, pine nut and almonds in working-aged Korean population.

Objective: Studies have reported that nuts intake is potentially beneficial to cardiometabolic health. However, there have been heterogenous results regarding the association between nut intake/consumption and the risk of diabetes mellitus (DM). Insulin resistance (IR) is a major pathophysiology of DM. Thus, this study was to assess the association between nuts consumption and IR. Design: […]