Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 119, Issue 4, Pages 1647-1655Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.08.048
Keywords
Hazelnut skin; Roasting; Polyphenols extraction; Total antioxidant activity
Funding
- Regione Piemonte and Fondazione Cariplo
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The thin brown perisperm (skin) that envelops hazelnut kernels is usually removed after roasting process, leading a phenolic-rich by-product. Principal aim of this work was to characterise the total antioxidant activity of phenolic extracts obtained from roasted Nocciola Piemonte PGI hazelnuts skin. Different extraction solvents (methanol, acidified methanol, ethanol, acidified ethanol, and acetone/water) and different protocols (cold solvent-assisted extraction and semi-automated Soxhlet extraction) were employed. The influence of different roasting degree (180 degrees C/10 min and 180 degrees C/20 min) was also investigated. DPPH center dot and ABTS(center dot+) radical-scavenging methods, ferrous ions chelation activity and inhibition of lipid peroxidation investigated in this study demonstrated significant antioxidant properties for hazelnut skin phenolics. The main mechanism involved appeared the antiradical activity, strictly related to the total phenolic content (r = -0.8798 and -0.8285 for DPPH center dot and ABTS(center dot+) assays, respectively). The acidification of extraction solvents led to a significant decrease of antiradical activity, whilst the different roasting conditions significantly influenced the chelation activity and the inhibition of lipid peroxidation. showing higher effectiveness for high-roasted hazelnut skin extracts. Conversely, the direct measure of the antioxidant capacity of defatted hazelnut skins revealed higher ABTS' scavenging properties for medium-roasted sample. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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