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Authors and Affiliations

1. Dairy Department, Food Industries and Nutrition Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, 12622, Egypt

   Tarek Nour Soliman & Tarik Nour Soliman

2. Food Toxicology and Contaminants Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, 12622, Egypt

   Ahmed Noah Badr & Yehia Hassan Abu Sree

3. Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (ASRT), 101 Kasr Al-Ainy St, Cairo, Egypt

   Ahmed Noah Badr

4. Botany Department, Faculty of Women for Arts, Science, and Education, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

   Feriala A. A. Abu Safe

5. Department of Chemistry, Poznań University of Life Science, ul. Wojska Polskiego 75, 60- 625, Poznań, Poland

   Karolina Hoppe

6. Medicinal Chemistry Department, Minnesota University, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

   Ahmed Noah Badr & Wayne T. Shier

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Conceptualization , Tarek Nour Soliman, and Ahmed Noah Badr; Data curation , Karolina Hoppe, W. T. Shier, Yehia Hassan Abu Sree, and Tarek Nour Soliman; Formal analysis , Feriala A Abu Safe, Ahmed Noah Badr, and Tarek Nour Soliman; Investigation , Karolina Hoppe, Ahmed Noah Badr, and Tarek Nour Soliman; Methodology , Ahmed Noah Badr and Tarek Nour Soliman; Resources , Feriala A. Abu Safe, Ahmed Noah Badr, and Yehia Hassan Abu Sree; Software , Yehia Hassan Abu Sree, Karolina Hoppe, Feriala A. Abu Safe, and Tarik Nour Soliman; Validation , Tarek Nour Soliman, Yehia Hassan Abu Sree, Karolina Hoppe; Writing—original draft , W. T. Shier and Karolina Hoppe; Writing—review & editing , W. T. Shier and Ahmed Noah Badr. All authors have read, revised, and accepted the final manuscript form.

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