Publications by authors named "Elisa Dufoo-Hurtado"
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- - This pilot study looked at how eating pistachios affects both cognitive ability and mood in overweight young adults, with participants consuming 28 g of pistachios daily for 28 days.
- - Results showed significant improvements in various health indicators, including reductions in waist circumference and cholesterol levels, and increases in plasma antioxidant activity after pistachio consumption.
- - Participants also demonstrated enhanced cognitive functions such as decision-making and attention, and experienced positive changes in mood, including reduced anxiety and anger, highlighting pistachios' potential benefits.
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- Chronodisruption in people with obesity is associated with unhealthy gut bacteria, increasing the risk of chronic diseases; dietary changes known as chrononutrition may help.
- An experiment using spent coffee grounds (SCG) and their fiber improved gut microbiota diversity and reduced harmful strains in an obese donor's microbiome.
- Both SCG and its dietary fiber showed potential prebiotic effects that could help alleviate health issues related to chronodisruption, although they did not significantly improve certain specific bacterial groups.
Pomegranate (PMG; L.) fruits possess a well-balanced nutrient/phytochemical composition, with proven adjuvant benefits in experimental cancer chemotherapy; however, such bioactivity could be affected by PMG's phenogenotype (varietal). Here, the chemical and phytochemical (UPLC-DAD-MS) composition, antioxidant capacity and anticancer potential [in vitro (MTT assay) and in silico (foodinformatics)] of three PMG fruits of different aryl color [red (cv.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronodisruption leads to obesity and other metabolic disorders that can be alleviated by food-derived potential chronobiotics, such as phytomelatonin (PMT), phenolic compounds (PCs) and dietary fiber rich pistachios. Pistachios with (PN + SC) or without (PN) the seed coat were investigated for their in vitro chronobiotic potential since they are one of the main reported PMT sources. Consequently we evaluated the bioaccessibility, permeability, and biosynthesis of pistachio chronobiotics, particularly PMT, during gastrointestinal and colonic fermentation.
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