Chemical, Bioactive, and Antioxidant Potential of Twenty Wild Culinary Mushroom Species
Abstract
The chemical, bioactive, and antioxidant potential of twenty wild culinary mushroom species being consumed by the people of northern Himalayan regions has been evaluated for the first time in the present study. Nutrients analyzed include protein, crude fat, fibres, carbohydrates, and monosaccharides. Besides, preliminary study on the detection of toxic compounds was done on these species. Bioactive compounds evaluated are fatty acids, amino acids, tocopherol content, carotenoids (?-carotene, lycopene), flavonoids, ascorbic acid, and anthocyanidins. Fruitbodies extract of all the species was tested for different types of antioxidant assays. Although differences were observed in the net values of individual species all the species were found to be rich in protein, and carbohydrates and low in fat. Glucose was found to be the major monosaccharide. Predominance of UFA (65-70%) over SFA (30-35%) was observed in all the species with considerable amounts of other bioactive compounds. All the species showed higher effectiveness for antioxidant capacities. ? 2015 S. K. Sharma and N. Gautam.
Journal
BioMed Research International
Access Type
Open Access
Collections
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Overview of extraction of astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis using CO2 supercritical fluid extraction technology vis-a-vis quality demands
Saini, Khem Chand; Yadav, Digvijay Singh; Mehariya, Sanjeet; Rathore, Parikshita; Kumar, Bikash; Marino, Tiziana; Leone, Gian Paolo; Verma, Pradeep; Musmarra, Dino; Molino, Antonio (Elsevier, 2021-04-19)Microalgae biomass have been used as a source of nutrient-rich food, feed, and health-promoting compounds. Among the several commercially available microalgae, Haematococcus pluvialis is the most abundant source of natural ... -
Pharmacological potential of serially extracted Solanum xanthocarpum fruit extracts and their phytochemical characterization
Kumar, Shashank; Pandey, Abhay K. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022-05-23)Pharmacological potential of serially extracted Solanum xanthocarpum fruit (SXF) extracts in terms of antioxidant, anticancer, and antibacterial activities was evaluated. Chemical characterization of the potent extract was ... -
Photoprotective, antioxidant screening and new ester from dry root extracts of Potentilla atrosanguinea (Himalayan cinquefoil)
Kaur, Rajbir; Singla, Ramit; Jaitak, Vikas (Elsevier, 2016)In vitro photoprotective and antioxidant activities of dried aqueous-methanolic (H2O/MeOH) crude extract and ethyl acetate (EtOAc), n-butanol (n-BuOH) as well as aqueous (H2O) fractions of roots of western Himalayan plant ...