What is it about?
The golden berry is a fruit with numerous health benefits and is a source of bio active molecules. This study compared dried golden berry fruits powder with the use of plant byproducts (wheat bran and golden berry peels) to improve biscuit safety. The novel golden berry biscuits looked like the traditional biscuits in color and sensory characteristics but had excellent baking, textural and rheological properties. The golden berry fruits exhibited the best antimicrobial and anti fungal properties and showed acceptable inhibition of toxigenic fungi and mycotoxin production. On the basis of these results, it is recommended that use of the dried golden berry fruits powder materials be used as food preservatives and food additives to increase the safety and shelf life of food products.
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Why is it important?
The importance of this work that; the discovering of modern sources of bio active material which provide both the supplementary nutritional and increase the safety for the final products
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I hope this article makes what people might think is a boring, slightly abstract area like health economics and measuring things like health, kind of interesting and maybe even exciting. Because the way we spend money on health and social care is not just a problem for politicians, managers and researchers to worry about - it is an issue that touches every single human being on this planet in one way or another. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope you find this article thought-provoking.
Dr Ahmed Noah Badr
National Research Centre, Egypt
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This page is a summary of: Innovative Nutritious Biscuits Limit Aflatoxin Contamination, Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, March 2019, Science Alert,
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2019.133.142.
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