Liver cancer, primarily hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), poses a major health burden globally due to its high mortality rate. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), natural byproducts of liver metabolism, trigger oxidative stress and contribute to HCC development. Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb. (CX), an Indonesian native plant, offers numerous benefits including attenuating oxidative stress and protectin…
The consumption of apples has shifted towards apple juice due to its convenience and potential for processing. Apples possess strong antioxidant qualities due to the high concentration of polyphenols. However, the processing of apple juice results in a significant loss of antioxidant activities, hence lowering the functional and nutritional value of the product. This study aims to increase …
The turkey berry was first found in 1899 in Columbia County, Florida, and has since spread to at least nine other nations in the Florida peninsula. Turkey berry (Solanum torvum), a nutrient-rich plant, offers significant medicinal and culinary benefits due to its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties. Despite its health advantages, its consumption is limited by its bit…
Modern food packaging provides a way to make food safe, reliable, shelf-stable and clean. Edible films, composed of biopolymers that biodegrade along with the food they contain, offer a preservation in structural integrity, and prevention in microbial growth as well as moisture loss. Edible films, crafted from abundantly found ingredients like carrageenan, offer a cost-effective and environ…
Pasta is a popular option for many consumers in the world wide. Colored pasta is one creative method to draw consumers' visual. Red fruit oil (RFO) is one of the natural colorants available. RFO has low solubility and sensitive to external conditions. An innovative solution to the problem is using encapsulation to convert oil-based components into powder-based ones. This study aims to examin…
Centella asiatica has been used for medicine, pharmaceuticals, and food supplementation, owing to its high phenolic and flavonoid content, as well as its significant antioxidant activity in the leaves. The need to transform its extract into powder form using microencapsulation is currently emerging, enabling convenience and versatility for various food industrial applications. Spray drying i…
The food technology industry is increasingly interested in innovative ways to include nutritious ingredients that promote health in food products. The leafy green plant that we used as a traditional medicine known as Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica), which is regional to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, has drawn a lot of interest from the food technology sector due to its potential to…
Utilizing natural antioxidants is a crucial method for controlling lipid oxidation in food, preventing deterioration and rancidity. Common natural antioxidants include green tea, rosemary, and tocopherol. Polyphenols in green tea and rosemary scavenge oxidation, inhibit free radical formation, and prevent lipid peroxidation. The phenolic compounds in tocopherol also contribute to antioxidan…
Excessive exposure toward sun exposure manifests various dermatological issues, including sunburn and skin aging, and subsequently leads to advanced conditions such as skin cancers, with UV-B playing a key role by causing oxidative stress and mutations. Sunscreen is necessary to prevent the detrimental consequences of UV-B radiation. However, the inconvenience and concerns over chemical ing…
Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can elicit both positive and negative effects on the skin. Among the three types of UV radiation, UVB (280-315 nm) is particularly detrimental, causing sunburns, skin cancer, and premature aging. Furthermore, UV exposure induces the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which the skin recognizes as external ROS. This study investigates …
One of the problems faced by palm oil industry and consumers is its susceptibility to lipid oxidation, leading to food deterioration. Therefore, there is a rise interest in antioxidant utilization, especially natural antioxidants to maintain the quality of oil and to prevent the oxidation. The objective of this study was to observe the effect of antioxidant utilization towards the oxidation lev…
Japanese curry is a popular and highly nutritious meal containing meat, vegetables, and abundant spices. Heat processing reduces the stability of meat towards oxygen, increasing the risks of food oxidation, leading to the destruction of the sensory properties and nutritional value of ready-to-eat meals. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a natural antioxidant that has been approved for use as…
Japanese curry is a popular dish which contains a high amount of spices, which provides the dish with quite a considerable amount of antioxidant activity. Even if curry may contain a high amount of spices, curry itself also contains a moderate amount of fat and oil which is involved in its production. Due to the moderate amount of fat and oil in curry, the product will be susceptible to auto-ox…
Avocado seed is more useful than just being a byproduct of avocado processing since it contains a lot of phenolic compounds. However, the phenolic compounds are rather prone to be damaged by environmental stress and by applying encapsulation techniques, they can be protected from the environmental stress. Thus, this study focuses on researching the effect of the presence of core and the core be…
Avocado seed (AS), a by-product of avocado, contains a high level of polyphenols which contributes to total antioxidant capacities (TAC) of avocado. However, polyphenols need to be encapsulated due to their sensitivity towards environmental stress. This study only observed the effect of the presence of core, the emulsification, coacervation, and freeze-drying steps of complex coacervation, and …
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) is a natural byproduct that plays many important roles for the body such as cell signaling, cell survival, and cell death. However, the accumulation of ROS can cause damage to the cell that leads to cell death and eventually to aging. To overcome that, various studies look for antioxidant substances, such as phenolic, flavonoids, and alkaloids. As the study of n…
Aging is a universal phenomenon which affects all living organisms; a gradual degradation of form and function as the body succumbs to ever accumulating adverse changes. The skin is the largest and most superficial organ of the human body; as such it is exposed to external stressors which would increase the production of ROS, the primary actor of the aging process. As a response, the cell wi…
Litsea oppositifolia is one of the species found in Indonesia and its pharmacological effects have not been well studied. Therefore, the antioxidant activity of L. oppositifolia stem extract was evaluated in human keratinocytes (HacaT cells) under H2O2-induced oxidative stress through related gene expression. The ethanol stem extract of L. oppositifolia was screened initially for its antioxidan…
Skin aging is an inevitable process in which the skin declines in quality which can be affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. One of the important factors contributing to skin aging is the accumulation of ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species). The ROS model was often used to study the effect of compounds that could affect skin aging and the most commonly used ROS model is H2O2, has been associate…
In the attempt of reducing fruit waste from fruit industry, thawed fruit and lemon waste (peel and pith) can be utilized to produce jam. Pectin, a vital gelling agent in jam making is abundant in lemon waste, however, its yield and effectiveness depends on the extraction method. In this study, the lemon pectin was extracted from using heat and strained with cheesecloth. The pectin was then adde…
The most important sources of biomolecules that can be screened from plant components are thought to be plant extracts. These biomolecules may be extracted from medicinal plants using a variety of solvents and extraction techniques. Due to their simplicity, effectiveness, and broad application, solvent extractions are the most widely used processes to create extracts from plant materials. Binah…
Snacks are often correlated with bad nutritional content due to high calories, fat, and carbohydrates with low essential protein, vitamins, and minerals. Moringa Oleifera and Lacryma Coix -Jobi L. could be the main ingredient for snacks due to their high fiber content, high antioxidant value, and low glycemic index. Both of the ingredients are easily cultivated and commonly found. However, …
Syzygium aromaticum, commonly known as cloves, is considered as one of the richest dietary sources of antioxidant and polyphenolic compounds. The bioactivity and antimicrobial activity of this spice is enhanced by using novel extraction techniques such as ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE). Sample-to-solvent ratio is one of the important factors that impact the functional properties of pl…
Black sapote is a fruit originating from Mexico that contains high antioxidant activity because of its varying phenolic compounds and micronutrients. Kombucha is one of the beverages that is fermented by a SCOBY to produce a unique and fizzy flavor. A SCOBY consists of acetic acid bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, and yeasts produce some acid for tart and fizzy flavour in kombucha. The effect …
The challenge of sustainability continues to grow harder as long as the world's population keeps increasing and more edible oils and fats are consumed. The environmental and reputational problems with palm oil (Elaeis guineensis), which has contributed to climate change and deforestation, have been particularly pronounced. Moving to an alternative vegetable oil as a functional edible oil, su…
The most well-known and frequently used vegetable oil in the world is palm oil, which is used to make a wide range of food products. The characteristics of a food product are not affected by palm oil, which is also highly stable, affordable, and widely available. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) with its high concentration of SFAs (>90%) is believed to have better oxidative stability when used as a fun…
The most well-known and frequently used vegetable oil in the world is palm oil, which is used to make a wide range of food products. The characteristics of a food product are not affected by palm oil, which is also highly stable, affordable, and widely available. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) with its high concentration of SFAs (>90%) is believed to have better oxidative stability when used as a fu…
Clitoria ternatea L. or butterfly pea has a lot of health benefit and is often consumed as highantioxidant flower tea due to its high bioactive content (Suarna & Wijaya, 2021). The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of the addition of soda and lime water towards the physicochemical properties, bioactive compound content, sensorial properties of the butterfly pea beverage. The results…
Skin aging is the accumulation of cellular waste that progressively leads to a loss of structural integrity and physiological function due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Although intrinsic aging is inevitable, it is highly influenced by extrinsic factors, including UV radiation, tobacco smoking and pollution. These repeated exposure causes the upper dermis fibroblasts to selectively los…
With the rising demand of convenient and readily-available food products along with consumer awareness of detrimental effects of excessive plastic usage and food waste, more interest has developed in bio-film packaging as a means to assist in decreasing the number of waste produced, both environmentally and food-wise. The main aim of this study is to observe the potential prolonging of shel…
The susceptibility of meat to quality and safety issues has brought numerous attempts to incorporate antioxidants and antimicrobial agents into the packaging to improve the shelf stability of meat. The study aims to develop chitosan film incorporated with Piper Cubeba essential oil (PCO) into chitosan film to improve the shelf life of beef shank cuts. 2% (w/v) chitosan films with 0-3% PCO we…
Indonesia is well known for its natural resources and cuisines that are rich in spices. Pangium edule or widely known as “kluwek” is one of the spices used in many traditional Indonesian cuisines. Research towards these specific spices, especially P. edule is still lacking, especially towards its potential use. The currently available research only focused on investigating the antioxidan…
“Kamlowelen” and “Kayu Bawang” are native papuan trees that have never been investigated before. Both tree barks are commonly used as a seasoning, tea, and medicine. In the present study, total phenolic content (TPC), DPPH assay, and phytochemical screening of tree barks extracted using five different solvents (Methanol, acetone, ethyl acetate, chloroform, and hexane) were analyzed.…
Wine is an alcoholic beverage which is produced through a fermentation process. Fruit wines are a type of wine created from various choices of base ingredients other than grapes. Black Sapote (Diospyros digyna) is an exotic fruit known to be found in tropical and subtropical areas. It is named after its black pulp and is widely accepted because of its sweetness and high antioxidant content. …
"Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is most common form of dementia and a neurodegenerative disease characterized by significant decline in cognitive ability that interferes with daily activities. This disease is characterized by accumulation of amyloid-β, NFTs, and oxidative stress in the brain of AD patient that leads to inflammation and neurotoxicity. Around 50 million people worldwide suffer from …