FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (11): 241-246.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201211051

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Optimization of Preparation Process for Antioxidant Peptides from Pumpkin Seed by Response Surface Methodology

FAN San-hong,MAO Qiang-qiang ,WANG Ya-yun,FENG Yu-wei,LIU Yan-rong   

  1. (College of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China)
  • Online:2012-06-15 Published:2012-07-27

Abstract: Pumpkin seed protein isolate was hydrolyzed by acidic protease to prepare antioxidant peptides. One-factor-at-a-time experiments were done to explore the effects of enzyme concentration, pH, temperature, substrate concentration and hydrolysis time on the scavenging activity of pumpkin seed hydrolysate against DPPH free radicals. Enzyme concentration, susbstrate concentration and hydrolysis time were identified as main affecting parameters and optimized using response surface analysis based on a three-variable, three-level Box-Behnken design. The optimal hydrolysis conditions were determined as hydrolysis temperature of 50 ℃, hydrolysis pH of 2.5, enzyme concentration of 6000 U/g, substrate concentration of 0.05 g/mL and hydrolysis time of 5 h. Under these conditions, the scavenging activity of DPPH free radicals was up to 92.82%.

Key words: response surface methodology, pumpkin seed, antioxidant peptide, enzymatic hydrolysis, optimzation

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