Herbal-medicine

sour cherry kernel
Sour cherry seeds arise as a waste material during processing of the fruits into processed products such as canned or frozen sour cherry, and sour cherry juice. This study aimed to investigate the chemical composition of the kernels in depth for potential utilization as a source of oil, protein and dietary fibers. The kernel was found to contain 17.0% of oil, 29.3% of proteins and 30.3% of dietary fibers. Conventional hexane and supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-co2) were used to extract oil from the kernels. The kernel oil was found to contain palmitic acid (6.4%), stearic acid (1.2%), oleic acid (46.3%), linoleic acid (41.5%), and linolenic acid (4.6%). Extraction technique had no significant effect on fatty acid composition of kernel oil. The oil extracted by hexane contained significantly higher levels of tocopherols and -carotene than the oil extracted by sc-co2.
 
Details : The effect of ethanol used as a co-solvent in both extraction techniques on the composition of oil was determined. Using ethanol with both hexane and sc-co2increased total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity and -carotene content of oil. Roasting kernels at 160c for 30 min decreased total tocopherols (9.8%), but increased total phenolic content (4.5 times) and hydroxymethylfurfural (1.4 mgl) in resulting oil


Herbal-medicane

Iran, in terms of geographic situation, climate and one thousand years history in traditional medicine, and also having well-known philosophers, has special and outstanding position all around world. According to this ecology, Iran has 11 climates from 13 common international climates which turns Iran to origin of more than 1000 different plant species and this rate is two to three times more than plant species in Europe. This diversity and valuable medicinal properties break Iran into the list of main countries with herbal medicine potentiality. Recent researches have shown that over 2300 species of Iran plants hold medicinal, hygienic and cosmetic properties. Moreover, 1728 species of aforementioned plants are recognized as originally domestic plants which growing up solely in Iran and are considered as exclusive capacity in our country.