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Studies on Antimicrobial and Antioxidative Substance of Yuzu (Citrus junos hort. ex Tanaka) Seed
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Yukiko Nakazono ,
Yuka Watanabe ,
Fumio Hashinaga
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Kenjiro Tadera
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ABSTRACT
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A yuzu (Citrus junos hort. ex Tanaka) seed extract with 80% methanol showed a potent antimicrobial activity against Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enteritidis. The antimicrobial substance was purified by adsorption column chromatography and identified as p-methoxycinnamic acid by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of p-methoxycinnamic acid against M. luteus, S. aureus, E. coli and S. enteritidis were 80, 60, 50 and 60 μg mL-1, respectively. In addition, this structure suggested that p-methoxycinnamic acid had the antioxidative activity and we investigated also the antioxidative activity. The antioxidative activity of p-methoxycinnamic acid was about 70-80% of that of BHA, BHT and α-tocopherol.
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