IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ijag24/340574.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Determination of minerals, vitamin content and antioxidant activity of cucumber and watermelon fruits from South-Western part of Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Omoniyi, Modupe A.
  • Alli, Aduradara M.

Abstract

Fruits are indispensable in today’s world owing their tremendous health benefits. Cucumber and watermelon are commonly consumed fruits worldwide. In this study, antioxidant potential of crude methanol extract of different concentrations of cucumber and watermelon were screened for antioxidant activity using total phenolic content, ferric reducing power (FRAP), ferric thiocyanate (FTC) tests and free radical scavenging (DPPH) assay. They are good source of calcium, magnesium and copper with appreciable amounts of vitamin C (143.360 ± 101.400 mg/100 g) for cucumber and vitamin A (90.980 ± 22.860 mg/100g; 29.475 ± 0.575 mg/100 g) for both watermelon and cucumber respectively. It was found that polyphenolics compounds were maximum in watermelon (87.04 ± 0.55 mg/g GAE in concentration 100 mg/mL). The extracts showed a potent DPPH free radical scavenging activity; cucumber had maximum percentage inhibition at 20 g/mL concentration (29.2%) compared to watermelon at 40 g/mL concentration (13.5%). These fruits also exhibited fairly good antioxidant activity with in both FRAP (0.517 mg/100 g; 0.317 mg/100 g) and FTC (17.2%; 31%) methods for watermelon and cucumber respectively.

Suggested Citation

  • Omoniyi, Modupe A. & Alli, Aduradara M., 2021. "Determination of minerals, vitamin content and antioxidant activity of cucumber and watermelon fruits from South-Western part of Nigeria," International Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (IJAGST), SvedbergOpen, vol. 1(1), February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijag24:340574
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.340574
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/340574/files/Omoniyi.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.340574?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Crop Production/Industries;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ijag24:340574. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inrapfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.