Claim · model-written summary
O. stricta had the highest total antioxidant capacity among the three Opuntia species.
- Taxon
- O. stricta
Opuntia strictae2 - Outcome
- total antioxidant capacitye2
- Direction
- higheste2
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Verbatim
e2“O. stricta was particularly rich in ascorbic acid and exhibited the highest total antioxidant capacity”
Title
Abderrahmane Hadini; Mounsef Neffa; Sanae Baddaoui; et al. Antioxidants 2026. doi:10.3390/antiox15040416
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation O. ficus-indica had the highest total phenolic and flavonoid contents among the three Opuntia species.
- Observation O. ficus-indica had the strongest radical scavenging and reducing capacities among the three Opuntia species.
- Observation O. stricta was particularly rich in ascorbic acid.
- Observation Metabolomic profiling of the cladode extracts found a predominance of phenolic acids and flavonoids.
- Observation Piscidic acid was a major constituent of the cladode extracts.
- Observation Isorhamnetin derivatives and organic acids were also detected in the cladode extracts.
- Intervention effect None of the cladode extracts induced genotoxic effects in the comet assay compared with the negative control.
- Intervention effect The cladode extracts differed significantly from the oxidative damage induced by hydrogen peroxide.