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Antioxidants (Basel). 2016 Aug 02;5(3). doi: 10.3390/antiox5030026.

Antioxidant Properties of Water-Soluble Gum from Flaxseed Hulls.

Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)

Fatma Bouaziz, Mohamed Koubaa, Francisco J Barba, Shahin Roohinejad, Semia Ellouz Chaabouni

Affiliations

  1. Enzyme Bioconversion Unit (UR13ES74), National School of Engineering, Sfax University, Sfax 3030, Tunisia. [email protected].
  2. Département de Génie des Procédés Industriels, Laboratoire Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable (UTC/ESCOM, EA 4297 TIMR), Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne Cedex 60203, France. [email protected].
  3. Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de València, Avda, Vicent Andrés Estellés, s/n 46100 Burjassot, València 46940, Spain. [email protected].
  4. Burn and Wound Healing Research Center, Division of Food and Nutrition, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 7198754361, Iran. [email protected].
  5. Enzyme Bioconversion Unit (UR13ES74), National School of Engineering, Sfax University, Sfax 3030, Tunisia. [email protected].
  6. Common Service Unit of Bioreactor Coupled with an Ultrafilter, National School of Engineering, Sfax University, Sfax 3030, Tunisia. [email protected].

PMID: 27490574 PMCID: PMC5039575 DOI: 10.3390/antiox5030026

Abstract

Soluble flaxseed gum (SFG) was extracted from flax (Linum usitatissimum) hulls using hot water, and its functional groups and antioxidant properties were investigated using infrared spectroscopy and different antioxidant assays (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS), reducing power capacity, and β-carotene bleaching inhibition assay), respectively. The antioxidant capacity of SFG showed interesting DPPH radical-scavenging capacity (IC50 SFG = 2.5 mg·mL(-1)), strong ABTS radical scavenging activity (% inhibition ABTS = 75.6% ± 2.6% at 40 mg·mL(-1)), high reducing power capacity (RPSFG = 5 mg·mL(-1)), and potent β-carotene bleaching inhibition activity (IC50 SFG = 10 mg·mL(-1)). All of the obtained results demonstrate the promising potential use of SFG in numerous industrial applications, and a way to valorize flaxseed hulls.

Keywords: antioxidant properties; flax hull; flaxseed gum

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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