Zhaoshuo Yu

Saudi Arabia is seeking to reposition halal from a label focused on religious permissibility to a broader trust mark that explicitly encompasses food safety, quality and nutrition. This matters because halal markets are expanding globally and because, in many non-Muslim settings, ‘halal’ is still reduced in public discourse to slaughter practices rather than understood as a holistic system of standards.

Abstract Plant-derived self-assembled nanoparticles, especially from food–medicine homology sources, are gaining attention, yet their structure–function relationships remain unclear. This study identified such nanoparticles from leaf decoction of Eucommia ulmoides, a key plant in traditional Asian medicine and diet, termed EUPs. These spherical particles (~287.8 nm) were primarily composed of polysaccharides and polyphenols, with 268 polyphenolic compounds detected via UPLC–QTOF–MS.