Nutritional profile of indigenous cultivar of black cumin seeds and antioxidant potential of its fixed and essential oil

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1321-1330

  Sultan, Muhammad Tauseef ^a   Butt, Masood Sadiq ^a   Anjum, Faqir Muhammad ^a   Jamil, Amer ^a   Akhtar, Saeed ^b   Nasir, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIGELLA SATIVA;

EID: 68949172512     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Abdel-Aal, E.S.M. and R.S. Attia. 1993. Characterization of black cumin (Nigella sativa) seeds. 2-Proteins. Alex. Sci. Exch., 14: 483-496.
2. Abu-Jadayil, S., S.K.H. Tukan and H.R. Takruri. 1999. Bioavailability of iron from four different local food plants in Jordan. Pl. Foods. Human. Nut., 54: 285-294.
3. Al-Jassir, S.M. 1992. Chemical composition and microflora of black cumin (Nigella sativa) seeds growing in Saudi Arabia. Food Chem., 45: 239-242.
4. Al-Saleh, I., A.G. Billedo and I.I. El-Doush. 2006. Levels of selenium, DL-a-tocopherol, DL-g- tocopherol, all-trans-retinol, thymoquinone and thymol in different brands of Nigella sativa seeds. J. Food Comp. Anal., 19: 167-175.
5. th Ed. AOCS, Campaign, Illinois, USA.
6. th Ed. AACC, St. Paul, MN, USA.
7. Anonymous. 2003. Official Methods of Analysis.13th Ed. Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC), Washington, DC, USA.
8. Ashraf, M., Q. Ali and Z. Iqbal. 2006. Effect of nitrogen application rate on the content and composition of oil, essential oil and minerals in black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) seeds. J. Sci. Food Agric., 86: 871-876.
9. Atta, M.B. 2003. Some characteristics of nigella (Nigella sativa L.) seed cultivated in Egypt and its lipid profile. Food Chem., 83: 63-68.
10. Atta-ur-Rahman, S. Malik, H. Cun-Hung and J. Clardy. 1985a. Isolation and structure determination of nigellicine, a novel alkaloid from seeds of Nigella sativa. Tetrahedron. Lett., 26: 2759-2562.
11. Bendahou, M., A. Muselli, M. Grignon-Dubois, M. Benyoucef, J.M. Desjobert, A.F. Bernardini and J. Costa. 2008. Antimicrobial activity and chemical composition of Origanum glandulosum Desf. Essential oil and extract obtained by microwave extraction: comparison with hydrodistillation. Food Chem., 106: 132-139.
12. Black, M., J.D. Bewley and P. Halmer. 2006. The Encyclopedia of Seeds: Science, Technology and Uses. CAB International. Cambridge, USA.
13. Brand-Williams, W., M.E. Cuvelier and C. Berset. 1995. Use of a free radical method to evaluate antioxidant activity. Lebensm. Wiss. Technol., 28: 25-30.
14. Bukhari, A.A. 1985. Sahih-ul-Bukhari (Arabic). Federal Ministry of Education, Govt. of Pakistan, Islamabad.
15. Burits, M. and F. Bucar. 2000. Antioxidant activity of Nigella sativa essential oil. Phytother. Res., 14: 323-328.
16. Cheikh-Rouhou, S., S. Besbes, B. Hentati, C. Blecker, C. Deroanne and H. Attia. 2007. Nigella sativa L.: Chemical composition and physicochemical characteristics of lipid fraction. Food Chem., 101: 673-681.
17. Cheikh-Rouhoua, S., S. Besbesa, G. Lognayb, C. Bleckerc, C. Deroannec and H. Attia. 2008. Sterol composition of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) and Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) seed oils. J. Food Comp. Anal., 21: 162-168.
18. El-Dhaw, Z.Y. and N.M. Abdel-Munaem. 1996. Chemical and biological values of black cumin seeds. J. Agric. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 21: 4149-4159.
19. El-Tahir, K.E., M.M. Ashour and M.M. Al-Harbi. 1993. The cardiovascular effects of the volatile oil of black seed (Nigella sativa) in rats:elucidation of the mechanism(s) of action. Gen. Pharmacol., 24: 1123-1131.
20. Erkan, N., G. Ayranci and E. Ayranci. 2008. Antioxidant activities of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) extract, blackseed (Nigella sativa L.) essential oil, carnosic acid, rosmarinic acid and sesamol, Food Chem., 110: 76-82.
21. Gali-Muhtasib, H., M. Diab-Assaf, C. Boltze, J. Al-Hmaira, R. Hartig, A. Roessner and R. Schneider-Stock. 2004. Thymoquinone extracted from black seed triggers apoptotic cell death in human colorectal cancer cells via a p53-dependent mechanism. Int. J. Oncol., 25: 857-866.
22. Hameed, I., G. Dastagir and F. Hussain. 2008. Nutritional and elemental analyses of some selected medicinal plants of the family polygonaceae. Pak. J. Bot., 40(6): 2493-2502.
23. Hussein, M.R., E.E. Abu-Dief, M.H. Abd El-Reheem and A. Abd-Elrahman. 2005. Ultrastructural evaluation of the radioprotective effects of melatonin against X-ray-induced skin damage in Albino rats. Int. J. Exp. Pathol., 86: 45-55.
24. Jabeen, F., M. Shahbaz and M. Ashraf. 2008. Discriminating some prospective cultivars of maize (Zea mays L.) for drought tolerance using gas exchange characteristics and proline contents as physiological markers. Pak. J. Bot., 40(6): 2329-2343.
25. Katsanidis, E. and P.B. Addis. 1999. Novel HPLC analysis of tocopherols, tocotrienols and cholesterol in tissue. Free Rad. Biol. Med., 27: 1137-1140.
26. Mozzafari, F.S., M. Ghorbanli, A. Babai and M. Farzami Scpehr. 2000. The effect of water stress on the seed oil of Nigella sativa L. J. Essential. Oil Res., 12: 36-38.
27. Nickavar, B., F. Mojab, K. Javidnia and M.A. Roodgar Amoli. 2003. Chemical composition of the fixed and volatile oils of Nigella sativa L. Zeitschrift. Fur. Naturforschung., 58: 629-631.
28. Ramadan, M.F. 2007. Nutritional value, functional properties and nutraceuticals applications of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.): an overview. Int. J. Food Sci. Technol., 42: 1208-1218.
29. Ramadan, M.F. and J.T. Mörsel. 2002. Direct isocratic normalphase assay of fat-soluble vitamins and beta-carotene in oilseeds. Eur. Food Res. Technol., 214: 521-527.
30. Ramadan, M.F. and J.T. Mörsel. 2003. Analysis of glycolipids from black cumin (Nigella sativa L.), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) and niger (Guizotia abyssinica Cass.) oilseeds. Food Chem., 80: 197-204.
31. Scherer, R. and H.T. Godoy. 2009. Antioxidant activity index (AAI) by the 2,2-diphenyl-1- picrylhydrazyl method. Food Chem., 112: 654-658
32. Singh, N., M. Verma, D. Mehta and B.K. Mehta. 2005. Two new lipid constituents of Nigella sativa (Seeds). Ind. J. Chem., 44: 742-744.
33. Singleton, V.L., R. Orthofer and R.M. Lamuela-Raventos. 1999. Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of Folin-Ciocalteu reagent. Meth. Enzymol., 299: 152-178.
34. Taga, M.S., E.E. Miller and D.E. Pratt. 1984. China seeds as source of natural lipid antioxidation. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc., 61: 928-931.
35. Takruri, H.R.H. and M.A.F. Dameh. 1998. Study of nutritional value of black cumin seeds (Nigella sativa L.). J. Sci. Food Agric., 76: 404-410.
36. Thaipong, K., U. Boonprakob, K. Crosby, L. Cisneros-Zevallos and D.H. Bryne. 2006. Comparison of ABTS, DPPH, FRAP and ORAC assays for estimating antioxidant activity from guava fruit extracts. J. Food Comp. Anal., 19: 669-675.
37. Valko, M., C.J. Rhodes, J. Moncol, M. Izakovic and M. Mazur. 2006. Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem. Biol. Interact., 160: 1-40.
38. Wajs, A., R. Bonikowski and D. Kalemba. 2008. Composition of essential oil from seeds of Nigella sativa L., cultivated in Poland. Flavour Fragr. J., 23: 126-132.