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The Effect of Chemical Composition of Wild Opuntia Ficus Indica Byproducts on its Nutritional Quality, Antioxidant and Antifungal Efficacy

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Biochemistry

Abstract

Wild Opuntia ficus-indica is a plant commonly grown in the desert. This study aimed to evaluate the chemical composition; fatty acids, macro and micro-elements, vitamin C, total phenolic and flavonoid contents of Opuntia Ficus indica byproducts (cladodes and fruit peels) on its nutritional quality, as well as, their antimicrobial, and antioxidant efficacy. Dietary fiber was 30.68 ± 5.28 in peels and 25.65 ± 3.07 in cladodes. The total phenolic content for each byproduct was estimated as 520±2.64 and 788±1.35 mg GAE/g for fruit peels and cladodes, respectively. Whereas flavonoids were estimated as 65.7±3.41 and 25.36 ± 1.55 mg Cat., /g for fruit peels and cladodes respectively. Results reflected considerable content of microelements and omega fatty acids. Eicosadionic was the major fatty acid component and it recorded 32.1 and 38.4% for fruit peel and cladodes, respectively. Byproducts extract demonstrated an efficiency against bacteria and toxigenic fungi. Inhibition impact of byproducts was very clear on Fusarium fungi using diffusion assay on agar media. The unique chemical composition and distinctive minor components of cladodes and peels reflected distinguishing bioactivity against harmful food-microorganisms. This could benefit for food safety particularly against toxigenic fungi. It could be concluded that Opuntia Ficus indica byproducts are promising for the application in the food industry

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2019.15895.1967

Keywords

Opuntia ficus indica byproducts, Chemical composition, nutritional components, antifungal activity, Antioxidant activity

Authors

First Name

Adel

Last Name

Abdel-Razek

MiddleName

Gabr

Affiliation

Fats and Oils Dept., National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt

Email

adelgabr2@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0003-1656-1358

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Shehata

MiddleName

G

Affiliation

Food Science and Technology, Arid-land research institute, City of Scientific Research and Technology. Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

gamalsng@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-0760-5945

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Badr

MiddleName

Noah

Affiliation

Food Toxicology and Contaminants Dept., National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt

Email

noohbadr@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-5588-6545

First Name

Karolina

Last Name

Gromadzka

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Poznan University of life Science, Poznan, Poland.

Email

karolina.gromadzka@up.poznan.pl

City

Poznan

Orcid

0000-0002-7496-0325

First Name

Lukasz

Last Name

Stępień

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland.

Email

lste@igr.poznan.pl

City

Poznan

Orcid

0000-0001-9740-9520

Volume

62

Article Issue

Special Issue (Part 1) Innovation in Chemistry

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9520

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2019-08-20

Publish Date

2019-12-01

Page Start

47

Page End

61

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Effect of Chemical Composition of Wild Opuntia Ficus Indica Byproducts on its Nutritional Quality, Antioxidant and Antifungal Efficacy

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22 Jan 2023