Bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity evolution during the ripening process of 12 Opuntia spp. fruit accessions
| Autor: | José Manuel Pinedo-Espinoza, Juan Gabriel Ramírez-Pimentel, Gabriel Iturriaga de la Fuente, Rubén Jiménez-Alvarado, Alma Delia Hernández-Fuentes, Juan Carlos Raya Pérez, César Leobardo Aguirre-Mancilla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
030109 nutrition & dietetics Antioxidant Agricultural development ABTS DPPH medicine.medical_treatment fungi food and beverages Ripening Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Arid Crop 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Pigment chemistry visual_art Botany medicine visual_art.visual_art_medium Animal Science and Zoology Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture. 29:138 |
| ISSN: | 2079-052X |
| DOI: | 10.9755/ejfa.2016-09-1324 |
| Popis: | Opuntia spp. is easily adaptable to arid and semiarid climates, and represents a valuable alternative for the agricultural development in dry regions. Twelve accessions of Opuntia spp. fruits were characterized to know the evolution of their bioactive compounds concentration such as phenolics, flavonoids and pigments (Isobetanins, betanins, indicaxanthins and total betalains) during their ripening process. DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging capacity were determined and correlated with pigments and bioactive compounds concentration. Bioactive compounds and pigments concentration increased along ripening. Higher concentration of total betalains were found in ripe ꞌBondaꞌ (O. guerrana Griffiths) and ꞌRojo Tolucaꞌ (Opuntia robusta var. Larreyi) accessions, being of 78.96 ± 0.54 mg 100 g-1 DW and 69.87 ± 0.29 mg 100 g-1 DW respectively. Findings in this work can help to select Opuntia spp. accessions with high potential to be established as a valuable crop in the arid zones of Mexico. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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