A5016658631- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Hops Chemistry and Applications
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Tea Polyphenols and Effects
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Food Quality and Safety Studies
- Chromatography in Natural Products
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
- Light effects on plants
- Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Growth and nutrition in plants
University of Teramo
2016-2024
In this study, freeze-drying microencapsulation was proposed as a technology for the production of powdered hop extracts with high stability intended additives/ingredients in innovative formulated food products. The effects different carriers (maltodextrin, Arabic gum, and their mixture 1:1 w/w ratio) on physical techno-functional properties, bitter acids content, yield polyphenols encapsulation efficiency powders were assessed. Additionally, powders' evaluated 35 days at temperatures...
This study was aimed to unravel the effect of raw materials (barley and wheat), wheat concentration (0, 25, 40, 100 %), species (common durum), beer style (Blanche Weiss), yeast (US-05 WB-06) on chemical composition, volatiles, sensory profile craft beers by using a multivariate statistical approach. Beer samples were analysed for their volatiles data processed unsupervised analyses, PLS regression multi-omics approach multi-block PLS-DA. Multi-block variable sparsification used as an...
This study investigated the use of conventional and innovative extraction methods to produce food-grade hop extracts with high antioxidant capacity content in bioactive compounds. Conventional extractions (CONV) were performed under dynamic maceration at 25 60 °C; using two ultrasound systems, a laboratory bath (US) high-power (HPUS), high-pressure industrial process. For CONV, US, HPUS effect time was also tested. Experimental results showed that method, temperature, affect different extent...
The Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) of common wheat different origin (variety and altitude cultivation) craft beers produced by using the themselves were analyzed SPME GC-MS. VOCs kernels compared, 14 flavor-active compounds identified. Principal component analysis was used to describe changes in profile volatiles induced beer processing. A unifying approach Generalized Procrustes (GPA), which considers overall characteristics datasets, permitted linking those define a flavor pattern....
Abstract The effect of dipping and vacuum impregnation (VI) pretreatments with lemon juice solution on the quality stability organic conventional frozen apples was investigated. Fresh were characterized; showed, at equal starch ripeness index, a lower sugar content, higher acidity than ones. polyphenol content slightly in ones while polyphenoloxidase activity similar. No differences color firmness evidenced. Dipping affected apples’ by determining an increase lightness (ΔL * ≈ 4) h° (Δh° 6)...
Climate changes associated with global warming are increasingly affecting the quality of cultivated crops. Cultivation at different altitudes and similar latitudes may offer an extraordinarily useful opportunity to obtain a diversificated dataset climate variables further investigate their effect on crop quality. This study evaluated indices - temperature, rainfall precipitation solar radiation data commercial parameters volatile organic compound (VOC) profile wheat harvest.Three common...
This study explores the effect of spray-drying (SD) inlet temperatures (T
A deeper knowledge of the effect wheat origin on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) profile craft beer is crucial for its quality improvement and local product valorisation. The VOCs 17 beers obtained by common durum, heritage modern, varieties grown in different fields sited at altitudes was analysed. Data were processed multivariate analysis using approaches. Partial least square (PLS) evidenced that concentration highest source variance, followed by, species, ancientness, altitude...
Different Solina wheat accessions (n = 24) collected in the Abruzzo region (Italy) were studied using 45,000 SNP markers generated from DarTseq platform. The structure of genetic data was analyzed by Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Cluster analysis that revealed existence two main clusters (Clu1 Clu2) characterized samples with different geographical origin. dataset further merged a public one provided CIMMYT containing 25,963 genotypes all over world. occupied vast space, thus...
Raw materials are recognized to affect the sensory profile of 'Blanche' craft beers and their 'terroir'. Two common wheat (Triticum aestivum, L.) were harvested in three experimental fields with different pedo-climatic conditions altitudes, then used for beer production. The taste flavour analysed by (panel consumer test) SPME GC-MS analyses. Panel dataset was processed multivariate statistical analyses: a principal component analysis (PCA) revealed that formulation main source variation...
Nowadays, there is a growing interest in botanicals for human nutrition and care. Arbutus unedo wild berries are edible medicinal fruits that contain many healthy bioactive components, which can be considered valuable resource the food ingredient market nutraceutical cosmetic sectors. In present study, polyphenols vitro antiradical hypoglycemic activities of five Italian accessions A. were investigated, their chemical profiles treated by means unsupervised chemometric techniques like...
Solina is an example of a bread wheat landrace that has been conserved in situ for centuries Central Italy. A core collection lines sampled areas at different altitudes and climatic conditions was obtained genotyped. clustering analysis based on wide SNP dataset generated from DArTseq outlined the existence two main groups, which, after Fst analysis, showed polymorphism genes associated with vernalization photoperiod response. Starting hypothesis pedoclimatic environments which were may have...
This study investigates the influence of spray-drying (SD) inlet temperature (Tinlet) and wall material composition (W) on chemical physico-chemical properties microencapsulated hop extracts (MHE). Hop extract was formulated with maltodextrin (MD) gum Arabic (GA) used in single or combination (1:1 w/w) β-cyclodextrin (βCD). Two different Tinlet were tested (120 °C 150 °C). After SD, MHE characterised for their physical techno-functional properties, bitter acids (BA) polyphenol content (TPC),...
Hop extracts represent a natural alternative to synthetic food additives because of their high content bitter acids and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with bittering, flavoring, antimicrobial properties. However, broader uses hop as techno-functional ingredients rely on the identification sustainable affordable extraction technologies allowing diversify processes produce characterized by different compositions and, consequently, qualitative Thus, this study is aimed evaluate compare...