FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (8): 125-127.

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Antioxidant Activity of Wild Edible Vegetable Yunnanopilia longistaminata

 LIU  Jian-Jun, XU  Li-Song, LIU  Xi-Kui   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resourses in West China,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming 650204,China;2.Department of Chemistry,Kunming College,Kunming 650031,China
  • Online:2008-08-15 Published:2011-08-26

Abstract: The antioxidant activities of the petroleum ether,EtOAc,BuOH and H2O extracts of Yunnanopilia longistaminata(W.Z.Li) C.Y.Wu & D.Z.Li,which is used as a wild edible vegetable in folk,were studied by the DPPH radical scavenging activity method. All the extracts exhibit weak scavenging activities on DPPH radical. The EtOAc extract and the BuOH extract exhibit relative good scavenging actions than the others,but their actions are much lower than that of BHA and VC,respectiveiy.

Key words: Yunnanopilia longistaminata, antioxidant activity, wild edible vegetable