Antioxidant capacity and vasodilatory properties of Mediterranean food: The case of Cannonau wine,myrtle berries liqueur and strawberry-tree honey |
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Authors: | Carlo Ignazio Giovanni Tuberoso Mladen Boban Ersilia Bifulco Danijela Budimir Filippo Maria Pirisi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari, Italy;2. Department of Pharmacology, University of Split, School of Medicine, Soltanska 2, 21000 Split, Croatia;3. Institutt for Indremedisin, Universitetet i Bergen, Laboratoriebygget, 8.etg. Rom 8390, Jonas Lies vei, 5021 Bergen, Norway |
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Abstract: | The aim of this work was to use different assays to evaluate the antioxidant and vasodilatory properties of three typical food products from the Mediterranean area and to correlate these activities with their phenolic content. For this purpose, red wines Cannonau, liqueurs obtained by cold maceration of myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) berries and bitter honeys obtained from strawberry-tree flowers (Arbutus unedo L.) were analysed. The total phenolic (TP) content was measured spectrophotometrically with a modified Folin–Ciocalteau method and phenolic compounds were identified and dosed by HPLC-DAD and LC-MS/MS. Antioxidant activities were evaluated with DPPH, FRAP and ABTS assays and the in vitro vasodilatory effects were assessed using norepinephrine precontracted rat aortic rings. Cannonau wines and myrtle liqueurs showed high levels of TP (1978 ± 279 and 1741 ± 150 mg GAE/L, respectively), linearly correlated to the results of FRAP, ABTS, and DPPH assays. Their maximal vasodilatory activity was 61.7 ± 4.1% and 53.0 ± 3.0%, respectively. Although strawberry-tree honey contained relatively high levels of phenolic compounds (922 ± 38 mg GAE/kg), it did not induce vasodilation, even at the highest dose tested (0.206 g/L). These results indicate that foods with high levels of phenolic compounds should be studied using several different biological assays before being recommended to the general public as functional foods. |
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Keywords: | Antioxidant Direct vasodilatory effects Phenolic compounds Cannonau wine Myrtle liqueur Strawberry-tree honey |
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