costus speciosus (koen) j.e. sm. plant and its extracts are used for treatment of fever, snake bites, jaundice, and as a purgative, astringent and antibacterial agent. in the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate in vitro antioxidant activity of different extracts of this plant by dpph radical scavenging activity, total antioxidant capacity, nitric oxide scavenging activity, ion c...

in this work, the study of various substituted kaempferol derivatives is presented. the bond dissociation energies (bde) have been calculated using b3lyp level and different basis sets in gas-phase. calculated results show that the bde values of substituted kaempferol range from about 77 to100 kcal/mol, demonstrating that kaempferol is an effective chain-breaking antioxidant that prevents lipid...

abstract effect of different concentrations of salicylic acid on postharvest life of kiwifruit (actinidia deliciosa) cultivar hayward at 0 ±.5 °c and 90-95% rh was studied. fruits were treated with salicylic acid (0, 1 and 2 mmol/l-1) and stored at 0±.5°c for 16 weeks. fruit quality attributes assessment including firmness, total acidity, soluble solid content, ascorbic acid, antioxidant activi...

objective: alchornea floribunda leaves are widely used in ethnomedicine for the management of immuno-inflammatory disorders. we investigated the in vivo and in vitro antioxidant activity of the leaf extract, fractions and isolated compounds of a. floribunda.materials and methods: the ethyl acetate fraction of the methanol leaf extract was subjected to several chromatographic separations to isol...

over the past decade, the chemical behavior of flavonoids as antioxidants has become the subject ofintense experimental research. in this paper, we use a quantum-chemical approach to shed light on thereactivity of four poly phenols, benzoic acid, vanilic acid, gallic acid and flavone . in order to establishthe most efficient theoretical methodology, different methods, either hartree—fock-based ...

the aim followed in the present study was to evaluate the antioxidant activity of individual vs. combined extracts of rosemary leaves and oak fruit to detect the possible interactions in their antioxidant activity following combination and in order to find a way to use oak fruit natural antioxidants as an available massive source in iran. towards this end, methanolic extracts of rosemary and oa...

chocolate milk is a popular tasteful dairy product and sugar is one of the main participants inits formulation. massecuit iii is a type of brown sugar consisting of phenolic compounds and other componentsthat might exhibit antioxidant activity and could improve and affect the nutritional properties of the food. theaim of the present study is to replace some or all of the white sugar used in the...

the genus verbascum l. belongs to the family scrophulariaceae and includes plants that have been used widely in traditional medicine for a long time. methanolic extracts of three verbascum species from flora of iran were in vitro screened for their possible antioxidant activities by three complementary test systems, namely dpph free radical-scavenging, metal chelating activity and β-carotene/li...

results the results of the study, using the two methods, showed that all methanol extracts of leaves and fruits of the six species possessed antioxidant activity. the antioxidant activity of the samples was compared with the antioxidant activities of butylatedhydroxytoluene (bht), as a synthetic antioxidant and α-tocopherol as a natural antioxidant. methanol extractions of pinus spp. leaves and...

in this work, the effect of three-day germination on proximate composition, total phenolic compounds, fatty acid profile, vitamin c content, radical scavenging activity, malondialdehyde content and reducing power of safflower seed was investigated. apart from ash, other parameters including oil, protein and crude fiber contents decreased significantly during germination. phenolics content incre...