Toxicological and Sedative Effects of Chipilin () Leaf Extracts Obtained by Maceration and Supercritical Fluid Extraction.

Chipilin () is consumed as a vegetable in the preparation of traditional dishes. As a folk medicine, Chipilin extracts are used as a hypnotic and sedative agent; however, there are few reports that support these uses. This study aimed to characterize the compounds present in Chipilin leaf extracts and to investigate their sedative effect using zebrafish as an model.

Microbial community structure, physicochemical characteristics and predictive functionalities of the Mexican tepache fermented beverage.

Tepache is a native beverage from Mexico, which is usually elaborated with pineapple shells, brown cane sugar and is fermented naturally. Beneficial health effects have been attributed to its consumption; however, the total ecosystem of this beverage including chemicals (substrates for microbial growth, prebiotics, etc) and microbiota (probiotics), and potential functionality had not been studied. In this work, the analysis of the tepache beverage for its physicochemical characteristics, as well as its structure of microbial communities and the predictive metabolic functionalities was carried out.