An Optimised Aqueous Extract of Phenolic Compounds from Bitter Melon with High Antioxidant Capacity

• Egile Nagusiak: Sing Pei Tan (Egilea), Costas Stathopoulos (Egilea), Sophie Parks (Egilea), Paul Roach (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: MDPI AG, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Bitter melon (Momordica charantia L.) is a tropical fruit claimed to have medicinal properties associated with its content of phenolic compounds (TPC). The aim of the study was to compare water with several organic solvents (acetone, butanol, methanol and 80% ethanol) for its efficiency at extractin...