药食保健野菜——苋菜的开发利用

苋菜是一种具有较高利用价值的药食两用蔬菜,对其进行开发利用已成为国内外医疗保健、食品、化工领域的研究热点。介绍了苋菜的识别特征、固有营养价值、保健作用、微量元素与食疗原理,提出了苋菜资源的开发利用方向。     

用苋菜红体系催化光度法测定痕量碘

提供了痕量碘新的催化光度法测定方法,避免了原方法使用的剧毒试剂。新方法以草酸钠为活化剂,以高碘酸钾氧化苋菜红的催化反应为基点。方法的检出限为8×10~(-10)g/mL,测定碘离子量的线性范围为2.5×10~(-9)～1.3×10~(-7)g/mL,大多数常见离子不干扰测定。     

High cadmium pollution risk on vegetable amaranth and a selection for pollution-safe cultivars to lower the risk

A pot experiment was carried out by growing 29 different genotypes (Amaranthus spp.) of vegetable amaranth under low- (0.12 mg·kg^-1) and middle- (0.40 mg·kg^-1) cadmium (Cd) exposure. The result showed that amaranth was vulnerable to cadmium (Cd) contamination in soil. Variations of Cd concentrations in both roots and edible parts among genotypes were significant (P<0.001) in both treatments. Cd concentrations in edible parts of the tested genotypes grown under low- and middle-Cd levels were significantly correlated (p<0.01), implying that Cd-accumulating property of amaranth is genotype-dependent. Differences in Cd chemical forms between cv. Nanxingdayemashixian (cv. Nan), a selected typical pollution-safe cultivar (Cd-PSC), and cv. Pennongjianyexian (cv. Pen), a selected typical non-Cd-PSC, under different Cd exposure conditions were compared. It was found that the alternation of Cd in F_NaCl (Cd form extracted by 1 mol·L^-1 NaCl) may be a key factor in regulating Cd accumulation of different amaranth genotypes and that the protein-binding Cd is considered to be associated with Cd translocation. The results indicated that amaranth is capable of enduring high level of Cd pollution when grown as vegetable crop, and accordingly, consuming vegetable amaranth would bring high health risk. Therefore, adopting Cd-PSC strategy would help reducing the risk of Cd pollution in amaranth. In this study, cv. Nan was identified as a Cd-PSC and recommended to be applied production practice.