Claim · model-written summary
All the essential oils showed some antioxidant capacity
- Taxon
- Piper guineense (African black pepper), Afromomum danielli (African cardamom) and Afrostyrax lepidophyllus (country onion)e0
- Outcome
- antioxidant capacitye3
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“essential oils from selected Nigerian spices [Piper guineense (African black pepper), Afromomum danielli (African cardamom) and Afrostyrax lepidophyllus (country onion)]”
e3“All the essential oils showed some antioxidant capacity”
Title
Nwachukwu; Chijioke N., Ogueke; Chika C., Onuegbu, N. C.; et al. Journal of Advances in Food Science & Technology 2025. doi:10.56557/jafsat/2025/v12i39227
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Afrostyrax lepidophyllus essential oil had higher total phenolic content (17.33 mg GAE/ml) than the other oils
- Observation Afrostyrax lepidophyllus essential oil had higher β-carotene (8.37mg/ml) than the other oils
- Observation Afrostyrax lepidophyllus essential oil had higher vitamin E (41.00mg/ml) than the other oils
- Observation Afrostyrax lepidophyllus essential oil had higher FRAP (604.90mg AA/g) than the other oils
- Observation Piper guineense essential oil had higher flavonoids (19.37 mg RE/ml) than the other samples
- Observation Piper guineense essential oil had higher DPPH activity (94.50 μg/mL) than the other samples