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Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits

The fruits of eight myrtles, Myrtus communis L. accessions from the Mediterranean region of Turkey were evaluated for their antioxidant activities and fatty acid contents. The antioxidant activities of the fruit extracts were determined by using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and β-carotene-li...

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Autores principales: Serce, Sedat, Ercisli, Sezai, Sengul, Memnune, Gunduz, Kazim, Orhan, Emine
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20548930
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1296.59960
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author Serce, Sedat
Ercisli, Sezai
Sengul, Memnune
Gunduz, Kazim
Orhan, Emine
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description The fruits of eight myrtles, Myrtus communis L. accessions from the Mediterranean region of Turkey were evaluated for their antioxidant activities and fatty acid contents. The antioxidant activities of the fruit extracts were determined by using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and β-carotene-linoleic acid assays. The fatty acid contents of fruits were determined by using gas chromatography. The methanol extracts of fruits exhibited a high level of free radical scavenging activity. There was a wide range (74.51-91.65%) of antioxidant activity among the accessions in the β-carotene-linoleic acid assay. The amount of total phenolics (TP) was determined to be between 44.41-74.44 μg Gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/mg, on a dry weight basis. Oleic acid was the dominant fatty acid (67.07%), followed by palmitic (10.24%), and stearic acid (8.19%), respectively. These results suggest the future utilization of myrtle fruit extracts as food additives or in chemoprevention studies.
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spelling pubmed-28816532010-06-14 Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits Serce, Sedat Ercisli, Sezai Sengul, Memnune Gunduz, Kazim Orhan, Emine Pharmacogn Mag Original Article The fruits of eight myrtles, Myrtus communis L. accessions from the Mediterranean region of Turkey were evaluated for their antioxidant activities and fatty acid contents. The antioxidant activities of the fruit extracts were determined by using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and β-carotene-linoleic acid assays. The fatty acid contents of fruits were determined by using gas chromatography. The methanol extracts of fruits exhibited a high level of free radical scavenging activity. There was a wide range (74.51-91.65%) of antioxidant activity among the accessions in the β-carotene-linoleic acid assay. The amount of total phenolics (TP) was determined to be between 44.41-74.44 μg Gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/mg, on a dry weight basis. Oleic acid was the dominant fatty acid (67.07%), followed by palmitic (10.24%), and stearic acid (8.19%), respectively. These results suggest the future utilization of myrtle fruit extracts as food additives or in chemoprevention studies. Medknow Publications 2010 2010-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2881653/ /pubmed/20548930 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1296.59960 Text en © Pharmacognosy Magazine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Serce, Sedat
Ercisli, Sezai
Sengul, Memnune
Gunduz, Kazim
Orhan, Emine
Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title_full Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title_fullStr Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title_full_unstemmed Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title_short Antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits
title_sort antioxidant activities and fatty acid composition of wild grown myrtle (myrtus communis l.) fruits
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20548930
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1296.59960
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