Abstract

ANTIOXIDANT STUDY OF BETULA CYLINDROSTACHYS

Suman Rawat* Ankita Sharma and Arti Tomar

Abstract

The present study was aimed at evaluating the antioxidant activities of Betula cylindrostachys known for their medicinal properties in folk medicine. In an effort to reduce the undesirable consequences of synthetic food conservatives in human health and food industries, scientists have recently changed their interest to search new conservatives. Antioxidants are important inhibitors of lipid peroxidation not only as a defense mechanism of living cells against oxidative damage but also for food preservation. The free-radical scavanging activities of prepared extracts of Betula cylindrostachys were carried out using DPPH (1,1–Diphenyl-2-Picryl-Hydrazyl). The results showed that all extracts of Betula cylindrostachys had radical scavanging activity. This study showed that methanolic extract of Betula cylindrostachys possess maximum antioxidant activity i.e. 66.99% out of all the extracts. Further research should be carried out to isolates compounds with radical scavanging capacity for industrial applications.

Keywords: Antioxidant activity, Betula cylindrostachys., Free Radical scavanging Activity.