A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Investigation of plant extracts for the protection of processed foods against lipid oxidation. Comparison of antioxidant assays based on radical scavenging, lipid oxidation and analysis of the principal antioxidant compounds




AuthorsSchwarz K, Bertelsen G, Nissen LR, Gardner PT, Heinonen MI, Hopia A, Huynh-Ba T, Lambelet P, McPhail D, Skibsted LH, Tijburg L

PublisherSPRINGER-VERLAG

Publication year2001

JournalEuropean Food Research and Technology

Journal name in sourceEUROPEAN FOOD RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

Journal acronymEUR FOOD RES TECHNOL

Volume212

Issue3

First page 319

Last page328

Number of pages10

ISSN1438-2377

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s002170000256


Abstract
Antioxidant activities of plant extracts from spices, coffee, tea, grape skin, and tomato peel slurry were evaluated using a number of analytical methods including the quantification of principal compounds. Similar rankings in the activities of these extracts were obtained by evaluating their efficiencies as scavengers of stable free radicals: Fremy-s salt, galvinoxyl or alpha,alpha -diphenyl-beta -picrylhydrazyl (DPPH). Similar results were obtained with the lipid oxidation assays based on thermal acceleration (formation of conjugated dienes in methyl linoleate at 40 degreesC or the Rancimat test at 100 degreesC with lard). Rankings of the extract activity obtained by scavenging of hydroxyl radicals generated in the Fenton reaction were similar to those obtained by an oxygen consumption assay with linoleic acid as substrate and metmyoglobin as catalyst. However, the results of the latter two assays differed from those of the other assays. In the overall ranking, coffee and rosemary extracts were amongst the most potent extracts whereas the tomato peel slurry showed no activity.



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