Color, betalain pattern, and antioxidant properties of cactus pear (Opuntia spp.) clones

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 442-451

  Stintzing, Florian C ^a   Herbach, Kirsten M ^a   Mosshammer, Markus R ^a   Carle, Reinhold ^a   Yi, Weiguang ^b   Sellappan, Subramani ^b   Akoh, Casimir C ^b   Bunch, Ron ^c   Felker, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c D'Arrigo Brothers   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Ascorbic acid; Betalains; Cactaceae; Cactus pear; Color; Gomphrenin I; Methionine betaxanthin; Opuntia; ORAC; Phenolics; Progeny; TEAC

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BETACYANIN; BETAINE; BETALAIN; BETAXANTHIN; COLORING AGENT; CYANINE DYE; GOMPHRENIN 1; METHIONINE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PHENOL; PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLONE; COLOR; DIODE; DIODE ARRAY DETECTOR; FRUIT JUICE; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA FICUS INDICA; OPUNTIA ROBUSTA WENDI; OXYGEN RADICAL ABSORBANCE CAPACITY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GENETICS; PROGENY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TROLOX EQUIVALENT ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BETALAINS; COLOR; FRUIT; OPUNTIA; PHENOLS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

CACTACEAE; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 12344290719     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf048751y     Document Type: Article

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