Comparison of antioxidant, antibacterial and anti-proliferative activities and prebiotic effects of extracts from Red Pitaya (Hylocereous polyrhizus), White Pitaya (Hylocereus undatus) and Papaya (Carica papaya)
Red pitaya fruit has generated a lot of interest as a source of functional food. This study was conducted to evaluate total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity and radical scavenging activity of the hexane, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), ethyl acetate (EA) and methanol extracts of peel and flesh of r...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature review
- 3. Antioxidant capacity, total phenolic content and radical scavenging activity of flesh and peel of red pitaya, white pitaya and papaya
- 4. Antibacterial activity of flesh and peel of red pitaya, white pitaya and papaya
- 5. In vitro cytotoxic effects of flesh and peel of red pitaya, white pitaya and papaya
- 6. Determination of prebiotic oligosaccharides composition in red pitaya, white pitaya and papaya
- 7. The effect of prebiotics from red pitaya, white pitaya and papaya on the growth, viability and activity of bifidobacterium spp
- 8. General discussion and conclusion