Abstract
SUMMARY EVALUATION OF THE ANTIOxIDANT ACTIVITy USING THE B-CAROTENE/LINOLEIC ACID SySTEM AND THE DPPH SCAVENGING METHOD. The antioxidant activity of fruit extracts (acerola, acai, black-berry and strawberry) and pure compounds has been analysed by two methods: β-carotene/linoleic acid and DPPH•(2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging assay. First, those methodologies were adapted to be performed in microplates, in order to reduce the sample and reagent amounts, to increase the number of simultaneous analyses and to automate absorbance lectures. The results showed that the antioxidant activity of the fruit extracts was in accordance with those of pure ascorbic acid and phenolic compounds, in the two systems. The acerola extract, due to its high vitamin C content, acted as pro-oxidant, but acai, black-berry and strawberry extracts acted as antioxidants in β-carotene/
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