期刊
PLANTS-BASEL
卷 9, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants9111623
关键词
pachycereus weberi; escontria chiotilla; antioxidant activity; phenolic compounds; betalains; food composition; food analysis; cytotoxicity
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [492030]
- Opciones de vida para comunidades vulnerables
- Water Center
- Bioprocess Group
- Synthetic Biology Strategic Focus Group [0821C01004]
- Research Chair Funds at Tecnologico de Monterrey [GIEE 0020209I13]
Mexico has a great diversity of cacti, however, many of their fruits have not been studied in greater depth. Several bioactive compounds available in cacti juices extract have demonstrated nutraceutical properties. Two cactus species are interesting for their biologically active pigments, which are chico (Pachycereus weberi (J. M. Coult.) Backeb)) and jiotilla (Escontria chiotilla (Weber) Rose)). Hence, the goal of this work was to evaluate the bioactive compounds, i.e., betalains, total phenolic, vitamin C, antioxidant, and mineral content in the extract of the above-mentioned P. weberi and E. chiotilla. Then, clarified extracts were evaluated for their antioxidant activity and cytotoxicity (cancer cell lines) potentialities. Based on the obtained results, Chico fruit extract was found to be a good source of vitamin C (27.19 +/- 1.95 mg L-Ascorbic acid/100 g fresh sample). Moreover, chico extract resulted in a high concentration of micronutrients, i.e., potassium (517.75 +/- 16.78 mg/100 g) and zinc (2.46 +/- 0.65 mg/100 g). On the other hand, Jiotilla has a high content of biologically active pigment, i.e., betaxanthins (4.17 +/- 0.35 mg/g dry sample). The antioxidant activities of clarified extracts of chico and jiotilla were 80.01 +/- 5.10 and 280.88 +/- 7.62 mg/100 g fresh sample (DPPH method), respectively. From the cytotoxicity perspective against cancer cell lines, i.e., CaCo-2, MCF-7, HepG2, and PC-3, the clarified extracts of chico showed cytotoxicity (%cell viability) in CaCo-2 (49.7 +/- 0.01%) and MCF-7 (45.56 +/- 0.05%). A normal fibroblast cell line (NIH/3T3) was used, as a control, for comparison purposes. While jiotilla extract had cytotoxicity against HepG2 (47.31 +/- 0.03%) and PC-3 (53.65 +/- 0.04%). These results demonstrated that Chico and jiotilla are excellent resources of biologically active constituents with nutraceuticals potentialities.
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