Nutritional characterization and phenolic profiling of moringa oleifera leaves grown in chad, sahrawi refugee camps, and Haiti

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 18923-18937

  Leone, Alessandro ^a   Fiorillo, Giovanni ^a   Criscuoli, Franca ^a   Ravasenghi, Stefano ^a   Santagostini, Laura ^a   Fico, Gelsomina ^a   Spadafranca, Angela ^a   Battezzati, Alberto ^a   Schiraldi, Alberto ^a   Pozzi, Federica ^b   Di Lello, Sara ^c   Filippini, Sandro ^d   Bertoli, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b AVSI Foundation   (Italy)

^c ACRA Foundation ^*  (Italy)

^d ACRA Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Chad; Ferulic acid; Flavonoids; Haiti; Moringa oleifera; Phenolic acids; Proximate analysis; Sahrawi; Salicylic acid

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYFERULIC ACID GLUCOSIDE; BETA CAROTENE; DI(DIHYDROCAFFEOYL)SPERMIDINE; DIFERULOYL (5OH FERULOYL)SPERMIDINE; FERULIC ACID; GLUCOSINOLATE; KAEMPFEROL; MORINGA OLEIFERA EXTRACT; PHENOL; PHYTATE; PUTRESCINE DERIVATIVE; QUERCETIN; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTIOXIDANT ASSAY; ARTICLE; FOOD QUALITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION MONITORING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PLANT LEAF; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; CHAD; CHEMISTRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; HAITI;

MORINGA OLEIFERA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CHAD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; FOOD ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAITI; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84939244400     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms160818923     Document Type: Article

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