Nutrient composition and antioxidant activity of 10 pepper (Capsicum annuun) varieties

European Food Research and Technology - Tập 224 - Trang 1-9 - 2006
J. L. Guil-Guerrero1, C. Martínez-Guirado1, Ma del Mar Rebolloso-Fuentes1, A. Carrique-Pérez1
1Área de Tecnología de Alimentos, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Almería, Spain, España

Tóm tắt

The nutritional composition of 10 pepper varieties collected from greenhouses in Almería (Spain), and unanalyzed until now, was determined. The analyzed principles included: Moisture, crude protein, available carbohydrates, lipids, dietary fiber, ashes, energy value, Vitamin C, fatty acids, carotenoids, minerals, nitrate and oxalic acid. The output of the analyses showed higher Vitamin C and carotenoid amounts in these pepper varieties than in conventional ones. The antioxidative capacity of the extracts, evaluated both with the β-carotene breaching and the 2,2,-diphenyl-1-picrylhydracyl (DPPH·) radical scavenging methods, has shown that the antioxidant activity of the extracts of some varieties was comparable with those of the commercial antioxidants used with comparative purposes.

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