Supercritical fluid extraction and hydrodistillation for the recovery of bioactive compounds from Lavandula viridis L'Her

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Patricia Costa (Author) Other; Clara Grosso (Author) Other; Sandra Goncalves (Author) Other; Paula B Andrade (Author) FFUP; Patricia Valentao (Author) FFUP; Gabriela Bernardo Gil, MG (Author) Other; Anabela Romano (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Food Chemistry

Vol. 135 No. 3

Pages: 112-121

ISSN: 0308-8146

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Agrarian Sciences > Other Agrarian Sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-002-4AS

DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.04.108

Abstract (EN): The chemical profiles of bioactive essential oil and extracts obtained by hydrodistillation (HD) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), respectively, from Lavandula viridis were compared. The SFE was performed at 40 degrees C and at extraction pressures of 12 or 18 MPa in two different separators. Evaluation of the essential oil and SFE extracts by GC-FID and GC-IT-MS revealed that oxygen-containing monoterpenes were the major constituents in both cases, but there were important differences between the chemical profiles produced by the different extraction techniques. More compounds were isolated by HD but higher yields were achieved by SFE. Camphor was the main component identified in the essential oil (31.59 +/- 1.32%), and in extracts from the first (1.61 +/- 0.34%) and second SFE separators (22.48 +/- 1.49%) at 12 MPa. In contrast, the first separator SFE extract at 18 MPa (heavy compounds) was dominated by myrtenol (5.38 +/- 2.04%) and camphor (4.81 +/- 1.93%), whereas the second separator SFE extract (volatiles) was dominated by verbenone (13.97 +/- 5.27%). The essential oil and heavy compound extracts from the first separator possessed antioxidant and anti-cholinesterase activities. Our data show that phytochemicals from the aerial parts of L. viridis could be developed as natural antioxidant and anti-cholinesterase drugs, with particular applications in the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10