Experimental Botany and Nutraceutical Laboratory, Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, (UP) 273 009
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Online published on 31 October, 2013.
Flacourtia jangomas is an important nutraceutical plant belonging to family Flacourtiaceae. This plant is having many nutritional as well as medicinal usages. It is having good antioxidant activity. Different concentrations of fruit extracts of F. jangomas were evaluated for reducing activity by using Reducing power assay. The reducing activity increases with concentration. Unripe fruit sample shows the maximum value of 77.5% reducing activity whereas in ripe fruits it is 87.5%.
Reducing power assay, Antioxidant, Nutraceutical, Flacourtia jangomas
