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alfalfa sprout — Ingredient · Foodgeist
Ingredient
alfalfa sprout
Aroma profile
Derived from this ingredient’s flavor compounds
phenolic×2
green
grassy
grassygreen_sharp
no aroma
lime
apple
cocoa
Taste profile
Derived from this ingredient's compounds · measured taste classes
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Molecular affinity
Pairs well with — ingredients that share aroma compounds
“This reaffirms the FDA recommendation that raw alfalfa sprouts should be considered potentially contaminated and avoided by persons at high-risk such as the elderly, young children, and immunocompromised persons.”
alfalfa sprouts→ caused →Salmonella stanley infections
year: 1995cases: 242+location: United States and Finland
“Alfalfa sprouts grown from contaminated seed caused an international outbreak of > or =242 S. stanley infections in > or =17 US states and Finland.”
What science says
safety threshold
“This reaffirms the FDA recommendation that raw alfalfa sprouts should be considered potentially contaminated and avoided by persons at high-risk such as the elderly, young children, and immunocompromised persons.”
raw alfalfa sprouts→should be avoided by→high-risk individuals
“The aqueous PPE extracts at 25 mg/mL applied on alfalfa sprouts reduced psychrophilic bacteria (1.12 Log CFU/100 g) and total coliforms (1.23 Log CFU/100 g) and increased the antioxidant capacity of the treated sprouts (55.13 µmol TE/100 g (DPPH) and 126.56 µmol TE/100 g (ABTS)) compared to untreated alfalfa.”
aqueous pomegranate peel extract (PPE)→increases→antioxidant capacity of treated alfalfa sprouts
“The aqueous PPE extracts at 25 mg/mL applied on alfalfa sprouts reduced psychrophilic bacteria (1.12 Log CFU/100 g) and total coliforms (1.23 Log CFU/100 g) and increased the antioxidant capacity of the treated sprouts (55.13 µmol TE/100 g (DPPH) and 126.56 µmol TE/100 g (ABTS)) compared to untreated alfalfa.”
aqueous pomegranate peel extract (PPE)→reduces→psychrophilic bacteria and total coliforms in alfalfa sprouts
“ASEA significantly reduced IL-6 and IL-1beta production and the NF-kappaB trans-activation activity of mitogen-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. ... The ASEA and PDTC groups had significantly lower serum TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-1beta levels at 9 hr after LPS challenge, and significantly higher survival rates than the control group.”
