Composição Mineral e Capacidade Antioxidante de Citros Cultivados em Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: BARROS, Helena Rudge de Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1463
• topic: Citros; compostos fenólicos; minerais; capacidade antioxidante; Citrus; phenolic compounds; minerals; antioxidant capacity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

Fruits provide not only essential nutrients for the functioning of human life systems; but also bioactive compounds that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases. This protective effect has been attributed to antioxidant properties performed by bioactive compounds, which citrus fruits are important sources, such as ascorbic acid, phenolic compounds and also of some minerals. Brazil is one of the major citrus producers, and about 90% of this production is destined for the juice production, with a large production of waste that could be reused. Thus, aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the mineral composition, content of total phenolics, ascorbic acid content and antioxidant capacity of skin and pulp of five citrus varieties cultivated in Goiás. The results were subjected to analysis of variance and Tukey test (p <0.05) for comparison of means. In general, the peels showed higher levels of all compounds tested, with the exception of ascorbic acid in the orange pera pulp had the highest content of acid lime peel and Tahiti had the lowest content. Citrus showed high levels of potassium, calcium and magnesium, and the peels considered "sources" of these minerals. Concentrations of trace elements also were found, cofactors of antioxidant enzymes. The phenolic compounds of peels were from 2.5 to 4 times higher than the pulps, especially the orange peel lime. As for antioxidant capacity, tangerine peel Ponkã showed the best results. Citrus fruits are from a variety of bioactive compounds and the shells can be exploited to produce functional foods or replacing the use of synthetic antioxidants.