A New Jersey woman was hospitalized for liver damage after taking high doses of turmeric. Research has associated popular herbal supplements like turmeric with liver toxicity and damage. Experts ...

Red Yeast Rice Red yeast rice is a traditional Chinese medicinal agent prepared by culturing the yeast Monascus purpureus with rice. This process produces a group of compounds called monacolins ...

Abstract Solvent extraction of red pigments from fermented solids is reported. The pigments were produced by solid-state fermentation of oil palm frond (OPF) biomass with the food-safe fungus Monascus ...

Discussion Workers of I. purpureus can perceive task recognition signals of non-nestmate workers, and respond accordingly. Not only are the CHC profiles of the antennae, legs, and abdomens different ...

Age, growth and mortality of dog snapper Lutjanus jocu (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) in the northeast coast of Brazil ...

Polysaccharides from functional foods have been proved to have diverse bioactivities, but little is known about what exactly happens to these polysaccharides after oral administration and even less ...