Changes in total and individual crocetin esters upon in vitro gastrointestinal digestion of saffron aqueous extracts

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 5318-5327

  Kyriakoudi, Anastasia ^a   Tsimidou, Maria Z ^a   O'Callaghan, Yvonne C ^b   Galvin, Karen ^b   O'Brien, Nora M ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

bioaccessibility; crocetin esters; gardenia; in vitro gastrointestinal digestion; saffron; stability

Indexed keywords

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; BIOACCESSIBILITY; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; DEGRADATION REACTION; GARDENIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DIGESTION; SAFFRON; UV-VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTERIFICATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ESTERS;

ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID; CROCETIN; CROCIN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMET ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROCUS; DIGESTION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; FRUIT; GARDENIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PANCREAS JUICE; SPICE; STOMACH MUCOSA; U937 CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAROTENOIDS; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; CROCUS; DIGESTION; ESTERIFICATION; FRUIT; GARDENIA; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOCYTES; MOUTH MUCOSA; PANCREATIC JUICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPICES; U937 CELLS;

GARDENIA;

EID: 84878648675     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf400540y     Document Type: Article

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