There are many pharmaceutical companies in Alabama, with the bioscience sector contributing an estimated $7.3 billion annually. The prominent company such as Southern Research has produced FDA-approved anticancer drugs. There are other big biopharma and biotech companies such as Evonik, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and SiO2 Materials Science. Pharmaceutical Companies in Alabama, U.S. List … Read more
Anacardium occidentale (cashew) is a plant from the Anacardium species. Though only the cashew nut and the cashew apple is edible and utilized as functional food, cashew leaf and the shell contains secondary metabolites which have medicinal values, and are utilized for various purposes. Cashew apple has minerals, vitamins, with the vitamin C content about … Read more
Cashew plant, or kaju (Anacardium occidentale), which yield the cashew nut and apple, is an evergreen plant of the sumac family (Anacardiaceae), the same family as mango and pistachio nut. The name cashew came from the Portuguese word, Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). Cashew is originally from northeast Brazil but was spread to … Read more
Palm wine is an alcoholic beverage produced from the fermentation of sap of different palm species. Alongside other fermented traditional beverages in Africa, such as Pito, Teji, Togwa, Burukutu, Sherbote, it has good content of probiotics. Palm wine is tapped through a series of steps that stimulate the flow of the sap. This involves perforation … Read more
Palm kernel oil is derived from the palm seed or nut or palm kernel of the palm fruit, unlike the palm oil that is obtained from the fruit (mesocarp) of the palm fruit. Palm kernel is a source of oil and dietary protein. The palm kernel or nut is oval, brown, with a hard shell. … Read more
Palm oil, or palm fruit oil, is obtained from the pulp of the fruit of the palm tree (Elaies guineensis). It is one of the most used edible vegetable oil, used to prepare a variety of dishes and for industrial purposes. It has become the third most utilized cooking oil in the globe. The tropical tree’s … Read more
Scallion also called green onions, salad onions, spring onions, or green bunch onions are a vegetable of the Alium onion species harvested at the immature stage before the bulb fully develops. It has a white base that did not fully develop into a bulb, and long green stalks. The white part has more flavor than … Read more
Onion (Allium cepa L.), also called common onion or bulb onion, is a biennial or perennial is a vegetable belonging to the Allium genus, and Liliaceae family. The Allium genus also contains leeks (Allium ampeloprasum), scallions (Allium fistulosum), shallots (Allium cepa var. aggregatum), and garlic (Allium sativum). The Latin word, cepa means “onion”. Onion may … Read more
Myrrh is the extract produced by the secretory tissues of the bark of the Commiphora species. The pale-gray discharge or a reddish-brown resin from the Commiphora are used as fragrance in perfume, cosmetics, aromatherapy, ointment, bouquet and in traditional medicine. Other therapeutic benefits have since been discovered. They belong to the family, Burseraceae. It is … Read more
Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BCPL) has 4 factories, with two of them in West Bengal, one in Mumbai and one in Kanpur. They produce capsules, tablets, granules, powders, oral liquid, drops, injectables, transfusions, ointments. There are many medical facilities in Kolkata, Durgapur and Siliguri cities of West Bengal. READ ALSO: List of Pharmaceutical Companies … Read more
