Ethnic food beverages with heavy metal contents: Parameters for associated risk to human health, North-East India.

Food beverage consumption is a worldwide age-old practice. It is also a common run-through habit among the tribes of North Eastern parts of India. The food beverage group is a traditionally fermented rice-based beverage by community of Assam, the largest plain tribe.

Procyanidin A2, an anti-diabetic condensed tannin extracted from , reduces elevated G-6-Pase and mRNA levels in diabetic mice and increases glucose uptake in CC1 hepatocytes and C1C12 myoblast cells.

To reduce the global burden of diabetes in an affordable way great attention has been paid to the search for functional foods and herbal remedies. One of the most popularly used functional foods in the North Eastern region of India is tender shoots of DC. In the current study identification of active anti-diabetic constituent of the tender shoots of was guided through α-glucosidase inhibition and procyanidin A2 was identified with IC 0.

In vitro and in vivo anti-diabetic and hepatoprotective effects of edible pods of Parkia roxburghii and quantification of the active constituent by HPLC-PDA.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Parkia roxburghii G. Don. is a traditional medicinal plant and its pods are extensively used as food and medicine.

Fenton oxidation and combined Fenton-microbial treatment for remediation of crude oil contaminated soil in Assam - India.

The study is aimed at the remediation of soil spiked with crude oil (5%) by employing Fenton oxidation, biological treatment and combined Fenton-biological treatment. A spiked concentration of 5% crude oil was selected on the basis of contamination levels of 0-5% as found in the soil of upper Assam oil fields (India). The degradation of the aliphatic fraction (C14-C28) of the crude oil was investigated by gas chromatography.