2017
Juan Ramírez-Godínez, Judith Jaimez-Ordaz, Araceli Castañeda-Ovando, Javier Añorve-Morga, Verónica Salazar-Pereda, Luis Guillermo González-Olivares, Elizabeth Contreras-López, Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 2017, 72 (1) 34?40.DOI: 10.1007/s11130-016-0582-1
Abstract
Since ancient times, ginger (Zingiber officinale) has been widely used for culinary and medicinal purposes. This rhizome possesses several chemical constituents; most of them present antioxidant capacity due mainly to the presence of phenolic compounds. Thus, the physical conditions for the optimal extraction of antioxidant components of ginger were investigated by applying a Box-Behnken experimental design. Extracts of ginger were prepared using water as solvent in a conventional solid?liquid extraction. The analyzed variables were time (5, 15 and 25 min), temperature (20, 55 and 90 C) and sample concentration (2, 6 and 10 %). The antioxidant activity was measured using the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl method and a modified ferric reducing antioxidant power assay while total phenolics were measured by Folin & Ciocalteu?s method. The suggested experimental design allowed the acquisition of aqueous extracts of ginger with diverse antioxidant activity (100?555 mg Trolox/100 g, 147?1237 mg Fe2+/100 g and 50?332 mg gallic acid/100 g). Temperature was the determining factor in the extraction of components with antioxidant activity, regardless of time and sample quantity. The optimal physical conditions that allowed the highest antioxidant activity were: 90 C, 15 min and 2 % of the sample. The correlation value between the antioxidant activity by ferric reducing antioxidant power assay and the content of total phenolics was R2?=?0.83. The experimental design applied allowed the determination of the physical conditions under which ginger aqueous extracts liberate compounds with antioxidant activity. Most of them are of the phenolic type as it was demonstrated through the correlation established between different methods used to measure antioxidant capacity.
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