Title
Anthocyanins derived only from delphinidin in the blue petals of Clitoria ternatea
Date Issued
01 January 2006
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Wongs-Aree C.
Schwartz S.
The Ohio State University
Publisher(s)
International Society for Horticultural Science
Abstract
Extracts from blue petals of Clitoria ternatea have been locally used as a food colorant and cosmetic substance. Anthocyanins extracted from blue C. ternatea petals were characterized using sequential extractions detected by a UV-spectrophotometer and a PDA (photodiode array detector)-HPLC. The patterns of aclyated anthocyanins and phenolic compounds of C. ternatea extracts were compared to known compounds from red grape and red radish extracts. Apart from anthocyanins, C. ternatea petals contained a lot of flavonoid compounds such as p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid. Monomeric anthocyanins of C. ternatea showed unusual appearance with being high stable in buffer pH 4.5. The anthocyanin spectrum performed m a rare pattern of 2 different optimum wavelengths (at 574 and 618 nm), which were disappeared after deacylation. This suggests that acylation at the B ring of the anthocyanins is a critical step in stability of C. ternatea anthocyanins. Moreover the results from alkaline-hydrolysis and acid-hydrolysis reactions revealed that anthocyanins of blue C. ternatea petals were only derived from an anthocyanidin form which is delphinidin.
Start page
437
End page
442
Volume
712 I
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-33749251628
Resource of which it is part
Acta Horticulturae
ISSN of the container
05677572
ISBN of the container
9066055391
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