Antioxidant Activity of Selected Spanish Wines in Corn Oil Emulsions

• Published in: Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 2000-11, Vol.48 (11), p.5581-5587
• Main Authors: Sánchez-Moreno, Concepción, Satué-Gracia, M. Teresa, Frankel, Edwin N
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antioxidants - isolation & purification; Antioxidants - pharmacology; Biological and medical sciences; California; Corn Oil; Emulsions; Food additives; Food industries; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; General pharmacology; Kinetics; Lipid Peroxidation - drug effects; Medical sciences; Oxidation-Reduction; Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Spain; Wine - analysis; Wine - classification
• ISSN: 0021-8561; 1520-5118
• DOI: 10.1021/jf000664s

Wines contain phenolic compounds that may be useful for preventing lipid oxidation as dietary antioxidants. This study was aimed at evaluating the antioxidant activity in corn oil emulsions of seventeen selected Spanish wines and two California wines. The inhibition of hydroperoxide formation at 10 μM gallic acid equivalents (GAE) varied from 8.4% to 40.2% with the red wines, from 20.9% to 45.8% with the rosé wines, and from 6.5% to 47.0% with the white wines. The inhibition of hydroperoxide formation at 20 μM GAE varied from 11.9% to 34.1% with the red wines, from 0.1% to 34.5% with the rosé wines, and from 3.3% to 37.2% with the white wines. The inhibition of hexanal formation at 10 μM GAE varied from 23.6% to 64.4% with the red wines, from 42.7% to 68.5% with the rosé wines, and from 28.4% to 68.8% with the white wines. The inhibition of hexanal formation at 20 μM GAE varied from 33.0% to 46.3% with the red wines, from 11.3% to 66.5% with the rosé wines, and from −16.7% to +21.0% with the white wines. The antioxidant effect decreased with increasing concentration. This antioxidant activity was related to the five main groups of phenolic compounds identified in wines by HPLC. The relative antioxidant activity correlated positively with the total phenol content of wines (by the Folin−Ciocalteu method and by HPLC), benzoic acids, anthocyanins, flavan-3-ols, and flavonols, for the inhibition of hydroperoxides and hexanal at 10 and 20 μM GAE. Keywords: Wine; corn oil emulsions; hydroperoxides; hexanal; antioxidant activity; prooxidant activity