Antioxidant activities of some local bangladeshi fruits (Artocarpus heterophyllus, Annona squamosa, Terminalia bellirica, Syzygium samarangense, Averrhoa carambola and Olea europa).
In the present study, antioxidant activities of the fruits of A. heterophyllus, A. squamosa, T. bellirica, S. samarangense, A. carambola and O. europa were investigated. For this, at first matured fruits of them were sliced into small pieces and dried in the sun and finally crushed in a grinder to make powder. Ethanolic extracts of fruit powder were prepared using 99.99% ethanol. The antioxidative activities of these extracts were determined according to their abilities of scavenging 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical. It was demonstrated that all the ethanolic extracts of A. heterophyllus, A. squamosa, T. bellirica, S. samarangense, A. caranbola and O. europa showed antioxidant activities. The IC50 of the ethanolic extracts of A. heterophyllus, A. squamosa, T. bellirica, S. samarangense, A. carambola and O. europa were 410, 250, 34, 200, 30 and 76 microg/mL, respectively. Among them, A. carambola showed the highest antioxidant activities followed by T. bellirica, O. europa, S. samarangense, A. squamosa and A. heterophyllus indicating that fruits of A. carambola, T. bellirica and O. europa are very beneficial to human health.
Soubir
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Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh. titovbge@yahoo.com
D031041:Annona / Q000737:chemistry; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D031622:Artocarpus / Q000737:chemistry; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D000431:Ethanol / Q000737:chemistry; D005638:Fruit / Q000737:chemistry*; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000737:chemistry*; D031658:Olea / Q000737:chemistry; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction / Q000187:drug effects; D010851:Picrates / Q000737:chemistry; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D027842:Syzygium / Q000737:chemistry; D029766:Terminalia / Q000737:chemistry
D000975:Antioxidants; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds; D010851:Picrates; D010936:Plant Extracts; D000431:Ethanol; C004931:1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl