Open AccessTotal Flavonoids, Total Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activity from Fruits, Leaves, Twigs and Flowers of Mesua ferrea L.
Author(s) -
Prakit Chaithada,
Juthamas Supapan,
Phetcharat Rodthuk,
Saowalak Chainarong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
walailak journal of science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.146
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2228-835X
pISSN - 1686-3933
DOI - 10.48048/wjst.2018.3946
Subject(s) - dpph , dichloromethane , chemistry , antioxidant , methanol , traditional medicine , solvent , food science , botany , biology , organic chemistry , medicine
The objective of this study was to compare antioxidant activity from crudes of fruits, leaves, twigs and flowers of Mesua ferrea L. with hexane, dichloromethane and methanol by controlling time and temperature in the solvent extraction. All crude extracts were investigated for their antioxidant capacity in 1,1-diphenenyl-2-picryhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging. The results indicated that the high polar solvent exhibited the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity. The methanol extracts of leaves show the highest activity with IC50 of 89.94±0.65 μg/mL. The flowers, twigs and fruits methanol crude extracts show IC50 of 94.26±5.93, 94.45±1.67 and 722.94±5.85 μg/mL, respectively. The methanol extracts of leaves also had the highest total flavonoids content (325.79±3.08mgQE/g). The methanol extract of flowers and the dichloromethane extract of fruits presented higher total phenolic contents than the other extracts which contained 769.11±46.64 mgGAE/g and 703.62±12.62 mgGAE/g, respectively, followed by the methanol extract of leaves (348.36±38.53 mgGAE/g).