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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Total Anthocyanin Content of Strawberry and the Profile Changes by Extraction Methods and Sample Processing.

Toktam Taghavi, Hiral Patel, Omololu E Akande, Dominique Clark A Galam

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toktam TaghaviAgricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8329-1792
Hiral PatelAgricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA.
Omololu E AkandeAgricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA.
Dominique Clark A GalamAgricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA.
Virginia State University · US

Funding

United States Department of Agriculture USDA-NIFA-Capacity Building Grant [grant number 2019-38821-29038], and the USDA-NIFA-Evans Allen [grant numbers 1015372].
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthocyanins are the primarily pigments in many flowers, vegetables, and fruits and play a critical role in human and plant health. They are polyphenolic pigments that are soluble in water and usually quantified by spectrophotometric methods. The two main methods that quantify anthocyanins are pH differential and organic solvent-based methods. Our hypothesis was that these methods extract different anthocyanin profiles. Therefore, this experiment was designed to identify anthocyanin profiles that are extracted by pH differential and organic solvent-based methods and observe their total anthocyanin content from strawberries. Six methods were tested in this experiment to quantify and profile anthocyanins in strawberry fruits by spectrophotometry and Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) respectively. Four methods used organic solvents (methanol, and chloroform-methanol) in different combinations. The next two methods were pH differential and a combination of organic solvent and the pH differential method. The results suggest that acidified chloroform-methanol extracted the highest anthocyanin content compared to water-based solvents. Methanol-water based solvents also performed better than methanol alone, because both methanol and water may extract different profiles of anthocyanins. Water-based extracts had the greatest absorbance at a lower wavelength (498 nm), followed by methanol (508 nm), and chloroform (530 nm). Chloroform-methanol solvent with higher pH (3.0) extracted pelargonidin as the main anthocyanin, while methanol and water-based solvents (with lower pH 1.0-2.0) extracted delphinidin as their main anthocyanin as identified by UHPLC. Therefore, chloroform-methanol and methanol-water solvents were the best solvents for extracting anthocyanins from strawberries. Also, freeze-dried strawberries had higher anthocyanin contents compared to fresh or frozen samples.

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chloroform extractflavonoidsmethanol extractorganic solventpH differentialultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)

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PMCPMC9027082
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