Autor según el artículo: Cádiz-Gurrea, M.L. Fernández-Arroyo, S. Segura-Carretero, A.
Departamento: Medicina i Cirurgia
Autor/es de la URV: María de la Luz Cádiz-Gurrea, Salvador Fernández-Arroyo, Antonio Segura-Carretero
Resumen: The consumption of polyphenols has frequently been associated with low incidence of degenerative diseases. Most of these natural antioxidants come from fruits, vegetables, spices, grains and herbs. For this reason, there has been increasing interest in identifying plant extract compounds. Polymeric tannins and monomeric flavonoids, such as catechin and epicatechin, in pine bark and green tea extracts could be responsible for the higher antioxidant activities of these extracts. The aim of the present study was to characterize the phenolic compounds in pine bark and green tea concentrated extracts using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS). A total of 37 and 35 compounds from pine bark and green tea extracts, respectively, were identified as belonging to various structural classes, mainly flavan-3-ol and its derivatives (including procyanidins). The antioxidant capacity of both extracts was evaluated by three complementary antioxidant activity methods: Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC), ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC). Higher antioxidant activity values by each method were obtained. In addition, total polyphenol and flavan-3-ol contents, which were determined by Folin-Ciocalteu and vanillin assays, respectively, exhibited higher amounts of gallic acid and (+)-catechin equivalents.
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1422-0067
Página final: 20402
Volumen de revista: 15
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/15/11/20382
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI del artículo: 10.3390/ijms151120382
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Año de publicación de la revista: 2014
Página inicial: 20382