Browsing by Author "Herrera Agudelo, Jessica"

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Elaboración de productos sucedáneos con base en levadura nutricional para desarrollar nuevas propuestas veganas
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2022-01-07) Herrera Agudelo, Jessica; Paredes Bacuilima, Tomas Rolando; Sánchez Jáuregui, Claudio Esteban
The proposed intervention project aims to apply nutritional yeast as an aroma and flavor agent in five plant-based substitute products with the purpose of developing a vegan gastronomic proposal. The application of this product opens the possibilities of developing new recipes or restructuring classic preparations in vegan version by giving it a more appetizing aroma and more attractive flavors. This project includes an updated literature review on nutritional yeast and its bromatological properties, it also compiles the development of the five substitute products and the execution of a gastronomic proposal of 20 vegan recipes. Both the products and the dishes created were subjected to tasting analysis by an expert panel to assess their organoleptic attributes. The substitute products developed were: mozzarella cheese, mayonnaise, Spanish sauce, seitan and fermented vegetable drink, all of them based on plants which in turn were given aroma and flavored with nutritional yeast; after this, a gastronomic proposal of four recipes for each of them was recreated with these substitute products, in this offer classics of international cuisine were made in their vegan adaptation in order to determine how much it resembles in aroma, flavor and texture to their original versions. From the analysis obtained from the development of substitute products and the recipes produced from them, it allowed to demonstrate the relevance of nutritional yeast as an aroma and flavor agent in the production of plant-based dishes, allowing the diversification of vegan proposals increasing their attractiveness and palatability. KEYWORDS: Nutritional yeast. Vegan. Substitute. Tasting.
Interacciones medicamento–nutriente y medicamento–planta medicinal en el tratamiento farmacológico de la epilepsia con ácido valproico: revisión sistemática cualitativa
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2020-08-28) Cabrera Benavides, Fabiola Marisol; Herrera Agudelo, Jessica; Orellana Paucar, Adriana Monserrath
BACKGROUND. The importance of studying drug-medicinal plant interactions lies at the critical point of being able to identify and prevent adverse effects in the future and at the same time modulate potential beneficial interactions.(1) In the United States, the Poison Control Center has reported nearly 200,000 hospital admissions due to the adverse drugs events. Psychiatric - drugs such as antidepressants, selective serotonin receptor inhibitors are responsible for 30.3% of cases, atypical antipsychotics 24.1% and other types of antidepressants 21.5% of them. (2) In this country, it has been reported that 20% of the population consumes herbal medicines with other medicines simultaneously and 70% of them do not report this information during consultation with their treating physician.(1) GENERAL AIM. To synthesize the scientific evidence about the clinically relevant aspects of drug-nutrient and drug-medicinal plant interactions in the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy with valproic acid. METODOLOGY. Qualitative systematic review that analyzed articles of primary origin about reported interactions between valproic acid with nutrient / food or with medicinal plants. RESULTS. By applying the search equation and the search criteria, 909 articles were obtained, 12 studies were discarded, and the remaining 10 articles met the inclusion criteria. Of these, seven articles reported nutrient-drug interactions of pharmacokinetic type and one of them corresponds to medicinal plant-drug interaction. On the other hand, one reported a pharmacodynamics nutrient-drug interaction due to exacerbation of side effects related to liver dysfunction, and 2 articles reported absence of interaction.