ADVANCE REVIEW ON NUTRITIONAL PHYTOCHEMICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF CHILI

India is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of chili peppers. It is one of the important commercial crops and a major constituent of Indian diet. It has green color and attain red color on ripening. Chili peppers produces alkaloid compound, capsaicinoids, responsible for the hotness. Chili also contain carotenoids, phenols, foliates and oxidative product which show many biological activities in the human body. It is a good source of minerals like iron, magnesium and potassium, vitamins like A, C, B, E and P and dietary fibers. The nutrient values of Chili depend upon the variety and their stages of maturity. Chili has nutritional values, antimicrobial and pharmacological properties. Chili have many biochemical and pharmacological properties like antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, antiallergenic and anti-carcinogenic. Chili is used in the pharmaceutical industry because of its pharmacological properties. Chili plays important role to increase immunity, anti-ulcer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-hemorrhoid agent. The extracts of chilli are used to alleviating the pain of arthritis, headaches, burns and neuralgia. It have the power to boost immune system and lower cholesterol, effective in heart disorders. This is the advance study to made a review of chili focusing mainly on its nutritional phytochemical, pharmacological and antimicrobial and clinical uses

Application of Taguchi method for optimizing the process parameters for the removal of copper and nickel by growing Aspergillus sp.

In the present study, the process parameters affecting biosorption were optimized by adopting Analysis of Mean (ANOM) approach for maximizing the percentage removal of copper and nickel by growing Aspergillus sp. in batch reactor using Taguchi method. The process parameters include inoculum concentration, initial metal concentration, pH and temperature. The optimized conditions were found to be 15% v/v inoculum concentration, 50 mg l−1 concentration of copper/nickel, pH 4 and temperature 30 °C. The percentage contribution of each process parameter on the removal of copper/nickel determined using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method followed the order: concentration of copper/nickel>inoculum concentration>pH>temperature. The percentage removal of copper and nickel realized in the confirmatory experiments carried out at optimized conditions was found to be higher than that obtained in all the test runs of Taguchi design, thereby supporting the accuracy of optimization of process parameters under the given set of experimental conditions. Keywords: Heavy metal, Biosorption, Aspergillus Sp., Optimization, Taguchi desig