Antioxidant Capacity and Identification of Bioactive Compounds of Myrtus communis L. Extract Obtained by Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction

Pereira, P.; Cebola, M.J.; Oliveira, M.C.; Bernardo-Gil, M. G.

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Ultrasound-assisted extraction was used to investigate the polyphenolic compounds, particularly anthocyanins, present in myrtle alcoholic extracts. This type of extract is typical in the making of liqueurs obtained from herbs or plants, especially medicinal plants. The leaf extracts were found to contain flavonoids from the quercetin and myricetin families. Besides these, the berry extracts also showed the presence of anthocyanins, hydrolysable tannins and quinic acid. The antioxidant capacity was studied using the ORAC and TEAC methods and the polyphenol content was measured using the Folin–Ciocalteu method. The results showed that the values produced by the ORAC and TEAC methods were in agreement and that the antioxidant capacity correlated with the polyphenol content. The results showed that the leaf extracts exhibited higher antioxidant capacity than the berry extracts. The extraction method was easily implementable, and proved to be a swift method for obtaining bioactive compounds from vegetable matrices.

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Myrtus communis L. Antioxidant capacity HPLC–MS Ultrasound-assisted extraction

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/54312

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Pereira, P., Cebola, MJ., Oliveira, M.C. et al. Antioxidant capacity and identification of bioactive compounds of Myrtus communis L. extract obtained by ultrasound-assisted extraction. J Food Sci Technol 54, 4362–4369 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-017-2907-y