Extraction of phenolic principles: value addition through effective sample pretreatment and operational improvement

Edible plants generally green leafy vegetables contain bioactive Phenolics and antioxidant principles which are important in maintaining the oxidative balance of the human body and are used widely as dietary supplements. Optimal extraction of such principles is the need of the hour for the nutraceut...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of food measurement & characterization 2019-03, Vol.13 (1), p.177-186
Main Authors: Chouhan, Kavi Bhushan Singh, Tandey, Roshni, Sen, Kamal Kumar, Mehta, Rajendra, Mandal, Vivekananda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic waves
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Chemistry/Food Science
Cost analysis
Dietary supplements
Engineering
Flavonoids
Food Science
Functional foods & nutraceuticals
Original Paper
Phenolic compounds
Phenols
Plant extracts
Plants (botany)
Pretreatment
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Edible plants generally green leafy vegetables contain bioactive Phenolics and antioxidant principles which are important in maintaining the oxidative balance of the human body and are used widely as dietary supplements. Optimal extraction of such principles is the need of the hour for the nutraceutical industries. The work presents three innovative sample pretreatment such as providing additional heat to the thimble, use of microwave pretreated sample and pretreatment with acoustic waves. These modifications are intended to improve the working efficiency and output of traditional Soxhlet extraction and make it at par with modern extraction techniques. Extraction of plant phenolics/flavonoids from edible leaves of Amaranthus viridis Linn (Amaranthaceae) and their subsequent HPTLC mapping was used as the performance indicator. Check of nutraceutical and biological integrity upon application of such pretreatment methods was performed. SEM analysis was carried out to get a true inside of the exctraction events occurring internally. Such findings can be helpful for small scale industries who cannot afford costlier modern extraction methods. Four assumptions have been proposed which can be a critical in impriving any extraction method.
ISSN:2193-4126
2193-4134
DOI:10.1007/s11694-018-9931-0