Antioxidant Study Of Cordia Dichotoma

The present study was aimed at evaluating the antioxidant activities of Cordia dichotoma known for their medicinal properties in folk medicine. In an effort to reduce the undesirable consequences of synthetic food conservatives in human health and food industries, scientists have recently changed their interest to search new conservatives. Antioxidants are important inhibitors of lipid per-oxidation not only as a defense mechanism of living cells against oxidative damage but also for food preservation. The free-radical scavenging activities of prepared extracts of Cordia dichotoma were carried out using DPPH (1,1–Diphenyl-2-Picryl-Hydrazyl). The results showed that all extracts of Cordia dichotoma had radical scavenging activity. This study showed that methanolic extract of Cordia dichotoma possess maximum antioxidant activity i.e. 66.99% out of all the extracts.Further research should be carried out to isolates compounds with radical scavenging capacity for industrial applications.