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978-3-030-78444-7
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human health and the economy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) reported that approximately 48 million Americans get sick, 128,000 are hos-
pitalized, and 3000 die each year from food poisoning. As specified by the CDC, the
known pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and parasites) account for most foodborne ill-
nesses, hospitalization, and death in the United States. Opuntia spp. are, to a great
extent, dispersed in Africa, Asia, America, and the Mediterranean bowl. This plant
is utilized as a dietary and pharmaceutical operator in a different dietary and value-
added push. Even though contrasts within the phytochemical composition exist
between wild and tamed (Opuntia ficus-indica) Opuntia spp., all Opuntia vegetative
(pear, roots, cladodes, pulp, and seeds) display useful properties as anticancer and
antimicrobial agents (flavonoids, and ascorbate), and as antimicrobial (phenolicacids) agents. Other phytochemical components (soluble fibers and biopeptides)
have been shared in the antimicrobial character of Opuntia spp. Bioactive peptides
are composed of a few amino acids linked by covalent bonds called amide bonds or
peptides. Depending on their grouping of amino corrosive, these peptides may influ-
ence the body’s major frameworks such as resistant, stomach related, cardiovascu-
lar, and anxious system. The bioactive peptides can be utilized as valuable
nourishment additives. Their grouping measures contrast from 2 to 20 amino cor-
rosive buildups, but a few peptides have a long chain of amino corrosive (lunasin 43
amino corrosive). Bioactive peptides have the plausibility to be utilized as charac-
teristic nourishment added substance and pharmaceuticals constituents to avoid
nourishment harming and nourishment added items due to their antioxidant and/or
antimicrobial impacts. Moreover, natural molecules from Opuntia spp. ought to be
planned in vitro, in vivo, in situ, and in a way to assess the risks to humans, animals,
and food chains. This chapter is an upgrade on the bioactive molecule’s properties
of Opuntia spp. and their potential intrigued as antimicrobial
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