Tropical fruit peel powders as functional ingredients: Evaluation of their bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity

Fruit by-products such as peel often contain more bioactive compounds than the edible portion. Extracts of eleven tropical fruit peels were found to have high bioactive compound contents and high antioxidant activity. Green sugar apple and purple sugar apple peels had the highest total phenolics con...

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Main Authors: César A. Can-Cauich, Enrique Sauri-Duch, David Betancur-Ancona, Luis Chel-Guerrero, Gustavo A. González-Aguilar, Luis F. Cuevas-Glory, Emilio Pérez-Pacheco, Víctor M. Moo-Huchin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464617304905