Antioxidant activity, phenolic content and fatty acid profile for seeds Physalis angulate L / Atividade antioxidante, teor de fenólicos e perfil de ácidos graxos de sementes da Physalis angulate L

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Tânia Granzotti da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Scudeler, Cintia Granzotti da Silva, Simionatto, Euclésio, da Silva, Rogério Cesar de Lara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/22053
• topic: Medicinal plant; DPPH; Gas chromatography; fatty acids; phenols.

Brazil has a large diversity of plants that have not been discovered, or have been little studied before their potential in treating various diseases. The Physalis angulata L., family Solanaceae is popularly known as "Winter Cherry", "camapum", "bag guy", among others, and is used in folk medicine for various treatments. This study were evaluated the antioxidant potential and phenols for leaves, fruit peels, and the chromatographic profile of fatty acids of the ground cherry seeds. For the determination of antioxidant potential was used the method free radical DPPH (0.004%) and rutin as positive standard. The phenolic content was determined by the Folin-Ciacalteu method. The profile of fatty acids of the seeds was analyzed by gas chromatography with flame ionization detector (GC-FID). Through this evaluation gave significant results to test the antioxidant in leaves showing inhibition values of the 98.15%. However, the fruit pulp showed a percentage of 90.87% of antioxidants against the DPPH. For extracts of bark and fruits also yielded satisfactory results as the antioxidant potential. The fruit pulp was also rich in phenolic compounds having a contente of 113.18 mg GAE / mg extract. The chemical composition for the fatty acids present in seeds have a high content of linoleic acid (C18:2n6c) with 69.9%. Further studies should be conducted in relation to compounds present in Physalis angulata, so you can develop new products to benefit human health.