Renata Dias de Mello Castanho Amboni

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the viability and physical properties of Bifidobacterium BB-12 microencapsulated by spray drying with partial replacement of reconstituted skim milk (RSM), as encapsulating agent, with the prebiotics inulin, oligofructose, and oligof fructose-enriched inulin (at a ratio of 1:1, 200g L−1 total concentrations).

TL;DR: Results have shown that the generated regression models adequately explained the data variation and significantly represented the actual relationship between the independent variables and the responses.

TL;DR: The composition of cacao pod husks, the main waste product of cocoa production, and some of the characteristics of their water-soluble pectins were investigated in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, pectin was extracted from passion fruit peel using three different acids (citric, hydrochloric or nitric) at different temperatures (40-90°C), pH (1.2-2.6) and extraction times (10-90min), with and without skins using a 24 factorial design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity of six apple cultivars grown in southern Brazil and found that genotype is the main factor that determines the composition of bioactive compounds in apples.