biotech
Mango Peel Extract Has Functional Food Potential
Filed in archive Food and Agriculture by ruth on July 25, 2007
Mango Peel Extract Has Functional Food Potential
According to a new research from India, mango peel extract is a rich, inexpensive source of antioxidants that can be potentially used in nutraceuticals and functional foods.

As reported in the journal Food Chemistry, acetone has been used to extract the antioxidants from the peel of both ripe and raw mangoes. When the antioxidant activity of the extract was measured, the extract has been found to be rich in anthocyanins, carotenoids and polyphenols.

In today's market, the main sources of polyphenols are green tea extracts, grape seed extracts and pine bark extracts.

Mango peels are a huge by-product of the mango processing industry and with this new finding can be put into good use and less problem of waste disposal.

Find more details from the full report.



Related Entries:

Permalink: Mango Peel Extract Has Functional Food Potential
Tags: polyphenols  antioxidants  mango  peel  extract  biotech  mango+peel  peel+extract 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/82702
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Mango Peel Extract Has Functional Food Potential:

  • Currently 7.00/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 7.00 out of 9 vote(s) cast.
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!