TY - JOUR
T1 - Compositional features and biological activities of wild and commercial Moringa oleifera leaves from Guinea-Bissau
AU - Fernandes, Ângela
AU - Liberal, Ângela
AU - Pinela, José
AU - Finimundy, Tiane C.
AU - Bancessi, Aducabe
AU - Ćirić, Ana
AU - Soković, Marina
AU - Catarino, Luís
AU - Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.
AU - Barros, Lillian
N1 - Funding Information#
FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology#
national funds FCT/MCTES to CIMO#
grant UIDB/00690/2020#
and to the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c)#
grant UIDB/00329/2020#
FCT, P.I. through the institutional scientific employment program-contract#
contracts of A. Fernandes and L. Barros#
contract of J. Pinela CEECIND/01011/2018#
grants of A. Liberal, through the INTERNOVAMARKET-FOOD project#
and A. Bancessi (FCT) FRH/BD/135356/2017#
FEDER-Interreg España-Portugal programme#
projects 0377_Iberphenol_6_E and TRANSCoLAB 0612_TRANS_CO_LAB_2_P#
and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia# grant 451-03-68/2020-14/200007#
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Moringa oleifera Lam. is a nutraceutical edible plant used to fight malnutrition in developing countries. This investigation describes the nutritional, chemical and bioactive assets of wild and commercially acquired M. oleifera leaves from Guinea-Bissau. Both samples presented significant differences in the contents of almost all the analysed parameters. Carbohydrates and proteins were the major constituents of the leaves, which also showed an interesting profile of tocopherols, organic acids, unsaturated fatty acids, and phenolic compounds. The infused extract of the commercial leaf sample was more effective than other preparations against lipid peroxidation and oxidative haemolysis. In turn, higher antibacterial activity was achieved with hydroethanolic and infused extracts of the wild sample, which extracts also displayed superior antifungal activity. Overall, the commercially acquired M. oleifera leaves stand out with better quality profiles than the wild collected, which aroused interest in studying the processing methods used locally to process this functional food.
AB - Moringa oleifera Lam. is a nutraceutical edible plant used to fight malnutrition in developing countries. This investigation describes the nutritional, chemical and bioactive assets of wild and commercially acquired M. oleifera leaves from Guinea-Bissau. Both samples presented significant differences in the contents of almost all the analysed parameters. Carbohydrates and proteins were the major constituents of the leaves, which also showed an interesting profile of tocopherols, organic acids, unsaturated fatty acids, and phenolic compounds. The infused extract of the commercial leaf sample was more effective than other preparations against lipid peroxidation and oxidative haemolysis. In turn, higher antibacterial activity was achieved with hydroethanolic and infused extracts of the wild sample, which extracts also displayed superior antifungal activity. Overall, the commercially acquired M. oleifera leaves stand out with better quality profiles than the wild collected, which aroused interest in studying the processing methods used locally to process this functional food.
KW - Antioxidant/antimicrobial
KW - Functional foods
KW - Moringa oleifera leaves
KW - Nutritional composition
KW - Phenolic compounds
KW - Quality parameters
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fbio.2021.101300
DO - 10.1016/j.fbio.2021.101300
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85112623596
SN - 2212-4292
VL - 43
JO - Food Bioscience
JF - Food Bioscience
M1 - 101300
ER -