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Table 3 Antioxidant activity of jojoba hull extracts at room temperature

From: Effective treatments of jojoba and jatropha hulls to obtain phytochemical compounds for industrial, nutritional, and pharmaceutical uses

Treatment 1 g meal: 30 ml solvent three times, each time ultrasound for 1 h then soaking 24 h

DPPH scavenging effect (% ± SD)

Hydrogen peroxide scavenging effect (% ± SD)

Total reductive capability (m/g) ± SD.

Ethanol:1 N HCl

70:30

87.6 ± 0.01

13.4 ± 0.10

15.9 ± 0.01

Ethanol:0.5 N HCl

70:30

89.4 ± 0.03

12.0 ± 0.06

17.0 ± 0.02

Ethanol:1 N NaOH

70:30

8.2 ± 0.02

12.6 ± 0.05

6.4 ± 0.04

Ethanol:0.5 N NaOH

70:30

43.6 ± 0.05

11.7 ± 0.03

9.7 ± 0.03

1 N NaOH

100 ± 0.01

100 ± 0.01

53.8 ± 0.1

0.5 N NaOH

100 ± 0.01

100 ± 0.01

40.7 ± 0.07

1 N HCl

93.9 ± 0.04

4.9 ± 0.02

2.4 ± 0.05

0.5 N HCl

94.8 ± 0.10

2.2 ± 0.05

1.3 ± 0.01

1 N NaOH then neutralize with 1 N HCl

73.6 ± 0.20

ND

72.8 ± 0.20

0.5 N NaOH then neutralize with 0.5 N HCl

77.0 ± 0.20

ND

67.4 ± 0.10

1 N HCl then neutralize with 1 N NaOH

87.6 ± 0.01

ND

5.7 ± 0.03

0.5 N HCl then neutralize with 0.5 N NaOH

90.0 ± 0.07

ND

4.4 2

BHT

51.5 ± 0.3

23.7 ± 0.4

1.1 ± 0.1

  1. Results are mean values of three replicates ± standard deviation