Chemical composition and biological activities of Ishpingo essential oil, a traditional Ecuadorian spice from Ocotea quixos (Lam.) Kosterm. (Lauraceae) flower calices

Food Chemistry

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 415-421

  Bruni, Renato ^a   Medici, Alessandro ^b   Andreotti, Elisa ^b   Fantin, Carlo ^b   Muzzoli, Mariavittoria ^b   Dehesa, Marco ^c   Romagnoli, Carlo ^d   Sacchetti, Gianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA SALESIANA   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Antifungal activity; Antioxidant activity; Cinnamaldehyde; Essential oil; Lauraceae; Methyl cinnamate; Ocotea quixos

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BENZALDEHYDE; BETA CAROTENE; CINEOLE; CINNAMALDEHYDE; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYDROGEN; LINOLEIC ACID; METHYLCINNAMATE; OCOTEA QUIXOS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RADICAL; SELINENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATOM; BLEACHING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DERMATOPHYTE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ECUADOR; ELECTRON; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FLOWER; FRUIT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OCOTEA; OCOTEA QUIXOS; OOMYCETES; OXIDATION; PATHOGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAURACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; OCOTEA; OCOTEA QUIXOS; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 0347949735     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2003.07.019     Document Type: Article

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