Aims: This research was designed to evaluate the Bisphenol A (BPA) level in five selected canned food products (sweet corn, baked bean, green pea, tomato paste and sardine) on sale in Lagos markets, South West Nigeria. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry and D...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5881
Objective: Energy drinks are popular and widespread and raising concerns about implications on human health. Hepatological, histological and renal function tests of Sprague-Dawley albino rats were investigated in rat liver, brain and kidney by administering “power-horse” energy d...
β-amylase (E.C.3.2.1.2) is a starch hydrolyzing enzyme fondly used in foods, pharmaceuticals, and brewing industries to convert starch into maltose. The aim of this study was to determine the physicochemical, kinetic, and thermodynamic properties, as well as the potential industr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrb/2022/v11i1208
β-amylase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes the α-1,4-glucan bonds from the non-reducing ends of starch and other carbohydrate polymers reducing it to maltose units. Maltose has much application with food processing and pharmaceutical industries. The enzyme was purified to apparent ho...
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Research Article10.9734/ijbcrr/2021/v30i130245