Journal
PLANT FOODS FOR HUMAN NUTRITION
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 218-223Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-009-0127-y
Keywords
Antioxidant activity; Caulerpa racemosa; Gracilaria tenuistipitata; Sargassum sp.; Seaweed extract; Ulva lactuca
Funding
- Thailand's Commission on Higher Education
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The aqueous extracts of four marine algae, Caulerpa racemosa var. macrophysa, Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. tenuistipitata, Sargassum sp., and Ulva lactuca, from the coastal areas in Southern Thailand, were prepared by boiling dried seaweed powder in water for 3 h, and by autoclaving each sample at 120 A degrees C for 3 h. They were then freeze-dried and evaluated for their antioxidant activities using DPPH (1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl), hydroxyl radical (OHaEuro cent) and superoxide anion (O (2) (aEuro cent a') ) scavenging assays. Boiling extracts of the seaweeds, except C. racemosa, were found to have higher total phenolic contents (TPC) than those obtained from the autoclave method. The antioxidant results also showed that O (2) (aEuro cent a') scavenging activity existed only in the boiling extracts of C. racemosa, G. tenuistipitata, and U. lactuca. In DPPH and OHaEuro cent assays, however, almost all the boiling extracts were less active than the autoclave ones. Among the four alga species, Sargassum sp. was the most active. Both extracts of this seaweed had the highest TPC and also displayed the strongest DPPHaEuro cent and OHaEuro cent inhibitory activities. A strong positive-correlation between the antioxidant potency and TPC of the autoclave extracts was found, while for the boiling extracts such relation was very weak. This result thus reflected that in addition to the phenolic compounds, there might be some other active components present in these extracts involved in the antioxidant activity.
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