Essays on Glycosides

Abstract

Oxidation is a common problem in olive oil due to its high content of unsaturated fatty acid, this leads to nutritional losses and quality degradation, especially under microwave heating. A number of studies have been done to add natural antioxidants to reduce oxidation. This project examines the possible application of olive leaves to reduce or inhibit olive oil oxidation under microwave heating. Olive leaves were able to increase the total polyphenol content as well as reducing the peroxide value in olive oil. However, the microwave heating caused severe quality degradation (increasing peroxide value and reducing total polyphenol) especially after 10 ...

Do natural supplements work?

Natural supplements are very popular right now all over the world and have been there for many years acting as an alternative t the manmade prescription drugs. The supplements usually come from plants. It has been said that herbs are a natural way in the treatment of depression, relieving symptoms of menopause and warding off flu, colds and others. Just for the reasons that a supplement is natural does not mean that it has no risks of side effects when it is taken . An example is the St. John’s Wort which is used by thousands of people daily to treat ...

Johann Friedrich Miescher was the first one to introduce us about his finding of an acidic substance which was weak in nature and was present in the nuclei of the WBC present in human beings and the first name given to this substance was “nuclien”. It took few more years for Miescher to research and find out the two components present in the unknown substance and they were “protein” and “nucleic acid”.

As the research on the nucleic acid progressed, it was found that they were the primary components present in chromosomes and a close analysis of the constituents revealed ...