cyanogenic glycoside

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cy·a·no·gen·ic gly·co·side

a glycoside capable of generating CN^- on metabolism (for example, amygdalin).

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This process promotes enzymatic degradation of cyanogenic glycosides. If the soaking or drying time is too short, enzymatic degradation will be inadequate, and cyanogenic glycosides remain high (5).

Outbreak of Cyanide Poisoning Caused by Consumption of Cassava Flour--Kasese District, Uganda, September 2017

The occurrence of the compound taxiphyllin, which is a cyanogenic glycoside in raw shoots and its side effect on human health claim to introduce something new way of processing using scientific input to exclude the toxic compound without disturbing the nutrient reserve.The biosynthetic precursors of the cyanogenic glycosides are different L-amino acids, which are hydroxylated, then the N-hydroxylamino acids are converted to aldoximes and these are converted into nitriles and hydroxylated to a-hydroxy nitriles and then glycosylated to cyanogenic glycosides (29).

Microbial Fermentation by Traditional Process using Intrinsic Microflora Reduces the Cyanide Content of Bamboo Shoots

Cyanogenic glycosides. National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/ v30jel8.htm.

Amygdalin, quackery or cure?

But shoots should be properly processed as they contain high level of toxic cyanogenic glycosides. Using improved shoot processing methods based on scientific approach instead of crude and unhygienic ones will not only reduce toxic cyanogenic compound but also retain the nutritional values.

The nutritional facts of bamboo shoots and their usage as important traditional foods of Northeast India

Under normal physiological conditions, tissues of cyanophoric plants do not contain free cyanide; rather they contain cyanogenic glycosides, which upon hydrolysis by endogenous glycosidase yield free cyanide which could be toxic to the consumer [8, 9].

Effect of garri processing effluents [waste water] on the cyanide level of some root tubers commonly consumed in the South East of Nigeria

Seasonal variation in the production of tannins and cyanogenic glycosides in the chaparral shrub, Heteromeles arbutifolia.

Is separating resource competition from allelopathy realistic?

Concentration of saponins, cyanogenic glycosides and alkaloids of trees species consumed by cattle in acahuales of low deciduous forest.

NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION, IN VITRO DEGRADATION AND POTENTIAL FERMENTATION OF TREE SPECIES GRAZED BY RUMINANTS IN SECONDARY VEGETATION (ACAHUAL) OF DECIDUOUS FOREST

Both plants had more steroids and flavonoids except for the two phytochemicals, anthraquinones and cyanogenic glycosides which were absent.

Phytochemical and antibacterial properties of the ethanolic leaf extract of Merremia peltata (L.) Merr. and Rubus spp

Quantification of cyanogenic glycosides in seedlings of three Macadamia (Proteaceae) species.

Effect of harvesting frequency, variety and leaf maturity on nutrient composition, hydrogen cyanide content and cassava foliage yield

Whole-bowel irrigation does offer an opportunity to completely cleanse the gastrointestinal tract of poisonous plant matter and should be reserved for patients who have ingested significant amounts of poisonous plant matter that will release toxins slowly over time in the gastrointestinal tract, such as apple or apricot kernels containing cyanogenic glycosides or oleander seeds containing cardiotoxic glycosides.

The syndromic classification, differential diagnosis, management, and prevention of potentially fatal plant poisonings in Louisiana and the Gulf South

The research has shown that the concentration of cyanogenic glycosides, which break down to release toxic hydrogen cyanide, increased in plants in elevated CO2.

New crops needed in case of continued rise in CO2 levels

Cyanogenic glycosides included hydrocyanic acid (HCH), found in peach and cherry pits.