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JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 83-94Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2015.06.060
Keywords
Antioxidant power; Cholesterol; Cytotoxicity; Solanum lycopersicum; alpha-tomatine
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- GenoPOM-pro Project [PON02_00395_3082360]
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The changes in antioxidant content of tomato fruits at different ripening stages (mature green, breaker and mature red) were determined and hydrophilic extracts were tested on normal and cancer cells. Large differences existed in the content of bioactive compounds at different ripening stages, with breaker tomatoes containing a higher content of hydrophilic antioxidants. We demonstrated a high cytotoxic effect of alpha-tomatine in green, but not in breaker, tomato extracts on all cell lines analysed. Cell death was found to be an apoptotic independent mechanism, probably due to alpha-tomatine binding to cell membrane cholesterol, disruption of cell integrity and necrosis. These results help in understanding which harvesting stage corresponds to the highest functional power of tomato fruits and may lead to the development of tomato-based functional foods. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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