Phytochemical screening, Sun Protection Factor (SPF) and sugar analysis of jatobá fruits (Hymenaea martiana Hayne): A native medicinal plant from the San Francisco Valley

Abstract

Hymenaea martiana is a native medicinal plant from the Caatinga, but biochemical studies of the fruit have not yet been reported. Thus, this study aimed to determine sugars and secondary metabolites, as well as assess the sunscreen potential of H. martiana fruits. The fruits were collected in Petrolina and separated into pulp and seeds. The sugar analysis investigated the presence of glucose, xylose, cellobiose, arabinose and xylitol. The determination of secondary metabolites was made through phytochemical screening and sunscreen activity was assessed with the spectrophotometric method. On the fruit pulp, carbohydrates with a great biotechnological potential were identified. The substances found in the phytochemical screening showed great antioxidant, photoprotective and medicinal potential. With the pulp extract, the sun protection factor values obtained were not significant and for the extract from the seeds, the values were 4.54 ± 0.11. Although the values found are below the recommended, the fruit extracts of H. martiana could be used in future development of sunscreen products providing several benefits to the formulation.Practical Application: Determination of sugars, metabolites and sunscreen activity from Jatobá fruits. Application in food and cosmetics industries.

Atividades antioxidante e inibitória da acetil colinesterase do extrato das folhas de Hymenaea rubriflora / Antioxidant and acetylcholinesterase inhbition activity from Hymenaea rubriflora Ducke (Fabaceae) leaf extract

“…Phytochemical screening promotes a guidance of potent biological activities present in biomolecules (AZMIR et al, 2013). A similar phytochemical profile was found by Bezerra et al (2013) on H. coubaril extract testing positive for the same metabolites class, as also for H. eriogyne and H. martiana, except for tannins (OLIVEIRA et al, 2019;SILVA et al 2019). The concentration of phenolic compound and flavonoids were 286.02 ± 1.75 GAE/mg.DW and 23.19 ± 2.38 QE/mg.DW, respectively.…”

“…A variety of pharmacological activity from Hymenaea genus (Fabaceae) is noticed in the literature. Studies have been shown a potent microbiological, antioxidant, myorelaxant and antinociceptive activity (BEZERRA et al, 2013;OLIVEIRA et al, 2016;BONIFACE et al, 2017;OLIVEIRA et al, 2019;SILVA et al, 2019;VERAS et al, 2020). Hymenea rubriflora Ducke, also known as "Jatobá" or "Tamarindo", is a botanical species endemic form Brazil, edible and used on traditional medicine, it occurs at Brazilian atlantic forest (LIMA & PINTO, 2015), recent studies proved it effectiveness as antimicrobial (SILVA et al, 2020).…”

A Systematic Review of the Photoprotective Potential of Native Edible Plants from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

“…Most articles [57][58][59][60][61][62][63] used the methodology proposed by Mansur et al [64], which employs UV/Vis spectroscopy to measure the SPF. Couteau et al [65] used a similar method described by Diffey and Robson [66].…”

“…The study by Oliveira et al [63] also performed a phytochemical analysis of the pulp and seed of H. martian, identifying flavonoids and tannins, mono and diterpenes and anthracene derivatives for pulp, and seed identified flavonoids and tannins and anthracene derivatives.…”

Herbivory and leaf traits of Amazonian tree species as affected by irradiance

“…For H. courbaril , there are several reports of phenolic compounds, terpenes and alkaloids in different structures of this plant (Crankshaw & Langenheim 1981; Imai et al 2008; Veggi et al 2014). Most total phenolics in this genus are condensed tannins, which are known to be involved in antibacterial and antifungal action (Crankshaw & Langenheim 1981; Oliveira et al 2019). In the present study, the highest variation in total phenolic compounds was in H. courbaril , which had intermediate values for total and condensed tannins.…”