Original scientific paper

Evaluation of Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Content, Antioxidant Capacity and Resveratrol of Selected Medicinal Plants of Northern Iran

Ruhollah Dastoor orcid.org/ORCID ; Department of Horticultural Science, University Campus 2, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
Davood Bakhshi orcid.org/ORCID ; Davood Bakhshi, Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
Alireza Aliakbar orcid.org/ORCID ; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

Abstract

Medicinal plants are source of bioactive molecules with antioxidant activity, which are well-known due to their health effects. Identification and quantitation of these compounds helps to evaluate the therapeutic properties of medicinal herbs. In this study total phenolic and flavonoid content, antioxidant capacity and resveratrol in fourteen species were estimated using Folin-Ciocalteu method, aluminium chloride colorimetric assay, DPPH radical scavenging capacity and liquid chromatography, respectively. Among plant materials the highest total phenolic was observed in Iranian barberry (Berberis integerrima Bunge.) and the highest total flavonoid was recorded in persicaria bistorta (Polygonum bistorta L.), while remarkable high antioxidant capacity was noticed in small-flowered black hawthorn (Crataeagus pyntagyna Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd). Wild grape (Vitis vinifera L. ssp. silvestris) was the richest source of trans-resveratrol (14.0±0.90 mg/100g DW). Further studies of these herbs would help knowing pharmaceutical potential of the northern Iran plants.

Keywords

medicinal plant; flavonoid content; antioxidant capacity; resveratrol; phenolic; Iran

Hrčak ID:

203016

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/203016

Publication date:

10.6.2018.

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