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Home - level Hydroponic Microgreens as Nutritional Supplements
Get PDFIn this industrial 2.0 world, people find no time to cook, prefer restaurant foods, chat items and fat-rich junk food. Most of them especially younger generation, follow similar food habits and patterns. Such food consumption habits may fail to provide vital nutrients to the body. Inadequate supply of nutrition for an extended period can result in health issues in human beings. To combat this situation, people are in dire need to find a ready- to- use alternative not only to restore their energy and wellbeing but also bring in changes in their food choices. Scientists and health specialists consider microgreens as a functional food that can be consumed with anything, either in raw or cooked forms. Researches further ascertain microgreens to be rich precursors of essential nutrients compared to mature vegetables and plants. A growing interest among people about microgreens as a popular and an emerging new clause of edible plant variant is gaining momentum. Prospects for growing them in households further prove as multiplier effect, mainly because people have come to know about their beneficial roles. They are easy to grow inside homes, consume less resource and lend well for hydroponic system. This article presents the findings of a micro-level study on microgreens growing conducted reusing wasted water from Reverse osmosis purifiers adopting hydroponics (soilless technique). Test findings revealed that greens grown adopting this technique also to yield edible, sumptuous micro greens as time plus cost effective and healthy nutritional supplements
Nutrients and nutraceutical content of polished and unpolished kodo millet – a quantitative analysis
Get PDFKodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) is an ethnic underutilized millet variety of south India with bounty of health benefits due to the abundance of dietary fiber antioxidant and minerals like iron. This gluten free wonder millet can be a healthy alternate dietary source for diabetic, obesity and CVD patients. Scientific evidence based studies on nutritional quality of this millet both in polished and unpolished form is less. The current study aims at “Analyzing the quantum of nutrients and nutraceutical present in polished and unpolished Kodo Millet”. Both polished and unpolished Kodo millets were procured from local market, cleaned to remove dirt, dust and stone. The cleaned millets were dried powdered and sieved using 60 mesh sieves (250 Micron) . The powdered millet flour was stored in airtight container. Nutritional content of Kodo millet was analysed for macro, micro nutrients and nutraceutical content of both polished and unpolished form using standard AOAC method - 20th edition (2016). The analysed nutrient content were compared statistically at 99% and 95 % confidence interval (t-test). The result shows that, the quantum of carbohydrate present in polished kodo millet was 10.53 % lesser than the milled parboiled rice and 8.1 % lesser than the brown rice and 11.61 % lesser than the raw milled rice. The total dietary fibre content of unpolished kodo millet was 12.98 gm, this value was almost double the amount of total dietary fibre present in samai (7.72 gm). Crude fibre content of unpolished kodo millet was noted as 7.66 gm – which is more than seven times the crude fibre content of raw and parboiled rice (0.2 gm) and more than six times the crude fibre content of whole wheat (1.2gm) respectively as per Nutritive value of Indian food
Rational cubic trigonometric exponential Bézier curve
Get PDFThe cubic trigonometric basis functions are constructed by including two exponential functions with five shape parameters and a tension parameter. Also, the properties of the basis functions are discussed. We propose to define the rational cubic trigonometric exponential Bezier curve with weight and the continuity condition of the curve. Visual effects of parameters and tension parameter along with weight are presented. We compare the proposed method of constructing the desired curve with the existing method. The conic sections of the curve are also discussed
Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of mothers on the nutritional status of school children – A study from south India
No full textUndernutrition is a major serious health concern that contributes to mortality and morbidityamong young children in India. There are few studies on the relationship of mother’s nutritionKnowledge, Attitude and Practice on the nutritional status of school children. It is a cross-sectionalstudy aimed to associate the nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of mothers and thenutritional status of children. About 100 children and their mothers were selected, according to theinclusion criteria, such as children with the specified age group between 6-12 years. We collected theinformation related to socio demographic profile, Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of mother usingthe developed questionnaire adopted from FAO manual. The nutritional status of the children wasassessed through anthropometric measurement. The SPSS 16.0 version was used for the statisticalanalysis. The study results showed that the illiterate mother secured higher mean KAP scores.Although, the socio economic status of the family influenced the nutritional Knowledge, Attitudeand Practice score of the mother, the statistical significance was not found. The higher meannutrition knowledge, attitude and practice score of the mother was associated highly with the highermean height, weight and BMI of the children
Optimisation and development of aegle marmelos incorporated prunus amaygdalus var dulcis gum capsule film
Get PDFPrunus amaygdalus var dulcis gum commonly known as almond gum is a polymer. Capsules made upof almond gum was used as a stand-in to gelatin capsule and the fusion of Aegle marmelos was found to helpprevent peptic ulcer. Anti-bacterial property of almond gum helps increasing the shelf life of capsules. Tostandardize and formulate Aegle marmelos incorporated Prunus amaygdalus var dulcis gum capsule and toassess the microbial and solubility properties of Aegle marmelos incorporated Prunus amaygdalus var dulcisgum capsule. The samples were formulated and standardized using five grams of almond gum and one gramof Aegle marmelos. Glycerol and sorbitol were used as plasticizers. Hydroxy Propyl Methyl Cellulose andcarrageenan gum were used as a binding agent for the formulation of Aegle marmelos incorporated almondgum capsule and it entails antioxidant, anti-ulcerative and anti-bacterial property. Predominantly, the antiulcerative property was due to the tannin content. The microbial content and solubility properties were alsodetermined and compared with gelatin capsules. The swelling property and moisture content of the sampledecreased as the concentration increased. The total bacterial count of Aegle marmelos incorporated almondgum capsule of AMV1 was 5.0± 0.042 CFU/g and for AMV2 was 7.0±0.023 CFU/g when compared withstandard (98.0 ± 0.05 CFU/g) and is significant at 5% level. The water solubility content of standard was 25%and for AMV1 and AMV2 was 80% and 97% respectively and found to be significant at 5% level. Theswelling index of AMV1 was higher at 40 % when compared to standard (20%) and AMV2 (30%) and is dueto presence of high volume of water using method I. Using method II, the swelling index of AMV1 was higherat 9.3 compared to other two samples of standard (-6.3) and AMV2 (-3.8) and is because of the mediumdensity of the material. The moisture content of AMV1 was higher at 23% as determined by two methodswhen compared with standard and AMV2. The tannin content in Aegle marmelos helps to prevent peptic ulcerin individuals and almond gum, a natural polymer is a best vegetarian capsule alternative to gelatin. capsule.The present study proved that anti-bacterial and solubility properties of Aegle marmelos incorporated almondgum and is far better in health perspective as compared to normal commercial capsule
Study of Effect of Substrate Temperature on Structure, Morphology and optical Properties of Spray Deposited Cu2ZnSnS4 Nano Thin films.
No full textCu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) films for different substrate temperatures were deposited by using simple chemical spray technique. Analytical reagent Grade; Copper chloride (CuCl2), Zinc chloride (ZnCl2), Tin chloride (SnCl4.5H2O) and thiourea (SC(NH2)2) were used as Cu+, Zn+, and Sn+ and ion sources respectively. A set of five CZTS films was deposited using five different substrate temperatures (175, 200, 250, 275, and 300 ). The structure, Morphology, Elemental analysis and optical properties of these films were studied using X-ray diffratometer (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis (EDX) and UV-Visible spectroscopy techniques respectively. The XRD spectra showed that all films are polycrystalline and exhibit kesterite tetragonal crystal structure with preferential orientation along (112) direction. The crstallinity was found increased with substrate temperature. The calculated crystallite size was increased with increase in substrate temperature. The surface morphology of CZTS films was improved with increase in substrate temperature. The film sample deposited for 275 represent excellent spherical granules CZTS crystals of increasing size from 640 nm to 1.8 μm arranged in regular fashion with some void spaces. The purity of the composition was investigated using Elemental analysis of the deposited films. The optical band gap was estimated using Tauc plots. The band gap obtained was to be in the range of 1.4 to 1.6 eV
Scientometric analysis of mammalian microbiome research
Get PDFOver the past few decades, microbiota research has been gaining the attention of the researchers working on the concepts of health–enhancement and overall–wellbeing. The mammalian microbiome has been progressively acknowledged as a developing research area resulting in an increased number of publications. This study intends to use scientometric and bibliometric analysis to evaluate the research development and evolution of publication patterns in the field of mammalian microbiome between 2007 and 2020. 512 published articles were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection and were analyzed. We assessed the quantity and quality of research output through statistical methods of bibliometric indicators, comprising a number of publications, citations, productive authors, journals and countries, using a bibliometric analysis. Scientometric analysis was performed using main path analysis, bibliometric coupling, co-word co-occurrence and co-author analysis, systematically characterizing and visualizing the trend and delivering a pivotal review of the mammalian microbiome research status quo. The results identified an increase in the number of publications over time showing the rapid research growth, with top productive countries recording the highest number of research outcomes with influential research. The bibliographic coupling revealed the most shared papers that form landmark papers and the co-author analysis indicated the most influential authors in mammalian microbiome research. The evolutionary path of the mammalian microbiome research was traced using the main path analysis identifying the milestone papers. The frequently occurred words were enumerated from co-word, co-occurrence networks. The information from this study could be a transcript for a comprehensive understanding of current mammalian microbiome research and can also direct the future and emerging trends in this research realm
Evaluation of Percentage corrosion inhibition efficiency of mild steel with derivatives of Oxazolone
Get PDFCarbon Steel is one of the most widely used material in the transportation pipelines of Oil and Gas industry. However, they are prone to corrosion in acidic environment. As preventive measure various mitigation techniques are employed to bring a stag to its corrosion, one of which is the use of inhibitors. In the paper, the study of the inhibitive properties of two oxazolone derivatives have been reported. The compounds were synthesized at ease and in high yield. The corrosion studies were performed on carbon steel in three different concentrations of HCl (1N, 1.5N and 2.0N) solutions using weight loss coupon (gravimetric) method. 1N HCl solution was found to have the most effective inhibition property for the oxazolone derivatives. % Inhibition efficiency was found to be maximum with 100 ppm of inhibitor concentration. The results revealed oxazolone derivatives as promising effective corrosion inhibitors
Phytochemical screening and Antivectoral activity of Muntingia calabura
Get PDFMosquitoes are the vectors of many severe diseases like malaria, dengue, yellow fever, filariasis, chikunguniya, west nile virus, western equine encephalitis and considered as one of the life threatening creatures in the world. The present study aims to identify the phytochemical compounds and larvicidal activities of the two extracts, ethanol and chloroform, present in the leaves of Muntingia calabura against the filarial vector Culex quinquefasiatus and to compare the efficiency of these two extracts. The plant leaves were collected, dried and powdered and the extracts were prepared using chloroform and ethanol and then series of tests were conducted. The eggs were collected, hatched and reared in the laboratory. The colony of larval instars were kept in glass beaker along with dechlorinated water and added with desired concentrations of plant extract and the mortality rate were calculated. The mortality of larvae was observed at 48hrs. The LC50 and LC90 values of M.calabura leaf extracts were depicted and for the each test the concentration of the extract is increased. It was observed that the mortality increases as the concentration of extract increases. Among the two extracts, Muntingia calabura ethanol leaf extract was found to be more effective than the chloroform extract against the filarial vector Culex quinquefasiatus which is cost efficient and ideal ecofriendly approach for the control of mosquitoes
Comparative study on nutrients of microgreens cultivated in soil, water and coco pith
Get PDFMicrogreens, a trending food product is gaining popularity due to its properties viz flavour component, as a garnish and also high in phytonutrients. These are young, tender and edible cotyledonary leafy greens which requires 7-8 days to grow and are harvested after sprouting as shoot. It requires a protected environment and can be cultivated in any medium. They are a rich source of bioactive components. The shelf-life of microgreens is too short due to rapid deterioration. They can contribute, directly or indirectly, to preserve and improve the biodiversity and environmental sustainability, increase food and nutritional security. Soil cultivation is the commonly used cultivation technique. This method breaks down the soil crust, making easy penetration of water, nutrients, and air, in turn making it available for the plant. Hydroponics method provides healthy, clean and grit-free seedlings. It is a speedy process as all the nutrients required are directly absorbed by the plant. Coir pith cultivation enhances the nutrient content, water holding capacity, maintains moisture and reconditions the soil. Hence a comparative study of micronutrients and phytochemicals of the microgreens as well as of their cultivation and growth pattern was planned with the above background. The study provided the benefits for consumption of the microgreens which are less popular in Indian cuisine