• Cherry fibers isolated from harvest residues as valuable dietary fiber and functional food ingredients 

      Basanta, Maria Florencia; de Escalada Pla, Marina Francisca; Raffo Benegas, Maria Dolores; Stortz, Carlos Arturo; Rojas, Ana Maria Luisa (Elsevier, 2014-04)
      Residues discarded at cherry fruit harvesting were extracted with ethanol from ‘Chelan’, ‘Brooks’ and ‘Sunburst’ varieties to obtain cherry fibers constituted by the cell wall polysaccharides, applicable as functional food ...
    • Compositional changes in cell wall polysaccharides from five sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars during on-tree ripening 

      Basanta, Maria Florencia; Ponce, Nora Marta Andrea; Salum, Maria Laura; Raffo Benegas, Maria Dolores; Vicente, Ariel Roberto; Erra Balsells, Rosa; Stortz, Carlos Arturo (American Chemical Society, 2014-12)
      Excessive softening is a major cause of postharvest deterioration during transportation and storage of fresh cherries. In continuing our studies to identify the factors determining the textural differences between sweet ...
    • Plum (Prunus salicina) peel and pulp microparticles as natural antioxidant additives in breast chicken patties 

      Basanta, Maria Florencia; Rizzo, Sergio Anibal; Szerman, Natalia; Vaudagna, Sergio Ramon; Descalzo, Adriana Maria; Gerschenson, Lia Noemi; Perez, Carolina Daiana; Rojas, Ana María (2018-04)
      Fiber microparticles (MPCs) separately obtained from peel and pulp of Japanese plum residues contained co-extracted β-carotene, lutein, and α- and γ-tocopherols, as well as polyphenols (cyanidins, quercetin derivatives, ...
    • Role of "well known" proteins on cell wall degradation and softening 

      Vicente, Ariel Roberto; Rodoni, Luis Maria; Salato, Gloria Silvia; Basanta, Maria Florencia; Ponce, Nora Marta Andrea; Stortz, Carlos Arturo; Raffo Benegas, Maria Dolores; Powell, Ann L.T.; Bennett, A.B.; Labavitch, John Marcus (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2015-03-25)
      Fruit softening has been largely associated with cell wall degradation by a number of loosening proteins. Firmness is a major quality attribute of fresh cherries and also an important factor affecting the susceptibility ...