Determinação de compostos bioativos e capacidade antioxidante em sucos frescos e pasteurizados de laranja

• Autor(a) principal: Alegre, Gabriela Fabiana Soares [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/121868
• topic: Suco de laranja; Vitamina C; Flavonoides; Carotenoides; Compostos bioativos; Suco de laranja Pasteurização; Hesperidina; Orange juice

Orange juice is source of beneficial compounds to health, such as vitamin C, flavonoids and carotenoids, which give also antioxidant properties. Although much be investigated on their bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacity resulting, there are few studies that report estimating the antioxidant potential in fresh and pasteurized juices of orange, which are the main forms available for consumption in Brazil. Thus the aim of this study was to observe the differences in the antioxidant potential in these two types of juices. For this vitamin C content, phenolics, carotenoids and flavonoids (flavanones glycosides narirutin, naringin, hesperidin and flavones polymethoxylated sinensetin, nobiletin and tangeritin) were measured, and the antioxidant capacity determined by three different assays, FRAP, ORAC, and MTT the latter being used for the first time with orange juice. Of the three trials used the ORAC was what showed better results (up to 700 times greater than MTT and 50 times greater than FRAP) and that may have greater biological relevance because it involves the generation of free radicals (peroxyl) of pathological significance, yet the MTT method proved to be a viable alternative to measure the antioxidant capacity of orange juice, with the samples reduced the reagent, demonstrating its reducing character. Pasteurization seem to influence the phenolic content and total carotenoids, with the pasteurized juice lower concentration compared to the fresh juice. Regarding the content of vitamin C, ranging 325-530 mg / L, was no significant difference between fresh and pasteurized juices. With regard to the fresh juice flavonoids had higher concentrations of flavanones glycosides, hesperidin is the predominant (2637-3558 mg/L), while the pasteurized juice had higher levels of flavones polymethoxylated, nobiletin having the highest concentration (10.86 to 16 mg/L). The juices showed similar responses from the antioxidant assays, indicating...