Title
Chenopodium quinoa Willd. (quinoa) grains: A good source of phenolic compounds
Date Issued
01 November 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pereira E.
Cadavez V.
Barros L.
Stojković D.
Sokovic M.
Calhelha R.C.
Ferreira I.C.F.R.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The ingestion of bioactive compounds has revealed health benefits, namely in the prevention and/or treatment of several diseases. This work aims to characterize the phenolic profile of three colour varieties of Chenopodium quinoa Willd. grains (black, red and white), and also evaluate their cytotoxic and antimicrobial activity. All varieties revealed the presence of phenolic compounds, namely, quercetin and kaempferol derivatives. In this study, quinoa grains did not reveal any anti-proliferative capacity in tumour cell lines, and, as expected, they were devoid of any toxicity. All of the analysed extracts possessed antibacterial and antifungal activities (inhibitory and bactericidal/fungicidal) against the microbial strains considered, exhibiting promising values of minimum bactericidal concentrations (mean MBC 0.153–0.916 mg/mL) and minimum fungicidal concentrations (mean MFC 0.211–0.884 mg/mL). Quinoa varieties represent a good source of bioactive compounds, interfering beneficially in the organism, specifically as antimicrobial agents. Thus, these extracts could be used in the development of bioactive ingredients.
Volume
137
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85088098553
PubMed ID
Source
Food Research International
ISSN of the container
09639969
Sponsor(s)
Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja 451-03-68/2020-14/200007 MPNTR
The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020); FEDER-Interreg España-Portugal programme for financial support through the project 0377_Iberphenol_6_E and TRANSCoLAB 0612_TRANS_CO_LAB_2_P; and L. Barros, R. Calhelha, and Gonzales-Barron thank the national funding by FCT, P.I. through the institutional scientific employment program contract. This work has also been supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia (451-03-68/2020-14/200007).
European RMinistério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior UIDB/00690/2020 MCTES
egional Development Fund ERDF
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia FCT
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