Characterization, biological activities, and authentication of red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam) oil

Abstract

Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam) oil (RFO) is one of high value edible oils having many functional advantages for health. P. conoideus is a native plant from Papua province, Republic of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. RFO is good for diets and served as preventive agents for various diseases such as cancer and coronary disease so that RFO can be considered as functional edible oils. Because of its high quality, in Indonesia fats and oils market, RFO has a more expensive price (10-15 times) than other common edible oils like palm oil and corn oil. This fact attracts some unethical player to adulterate RFO with other lower priced-oils such as palm oil and corn oil. As a consequence, the authentication of RFO from any oil adulterants becomes important to ensure the quality and the authenticity of RFO. This article report some biological advantages of RFO and the characterization of RFO. FTIR spectroscopy in combination with multivariate calibrations has been reported as a powerful technique for the authentication of RFO from other oils and is the most reported techniques in some literature.

Comprehensive Review on Application of FTIR Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometrics for Authentication Analysis of Fats and Oils in the Food Products

“…Red fruit widely distributed at Papua Island, namely Papua (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea, having 55–100 cm long, 10–15 cm diameter, and 2–3 kg weight [ 78 ]. RFO is red in color due to high contents of carotenoids and is reported to have several biological activities including treating several degenerative diseases such as cancer, arteriosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, and diabetes mellitus [ 79 ]. The price of RFO in Indonesian market is 10–15 times higher than common vegetable oils; therefore, RFO is subjected to adulteration by unethical sellers to get economical profit.…”

Combination treatment of metformin and red fruit (Pandanus conoideus l.) extract increased pancreatic β cell density but had no effect toward fasting blood glucose and glycated albumin levels in diabetic male wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus)

“…7 In addition, Papuans believe that red fruit could cure degenerative diseases such as cancer, arteriosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and stroke. 8 Red fruit contains high natural antioxidant compounds, including carotene, betacarotene and α-tocopherol. It also contains other compounds such as omega-3, omega-9 and oleic acid which are active compounds that counteract the formation of free radicals in the body.…”

A Novel Sensitive Electrochemical Sensor Based on Nickel Chloride Solution Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for Curcumin Determination

“…Thus, it is of utmost importance to develop a simple, fast, accurate and inexpensive method to accurately measure curcumin. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [23,24], high performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) [25,26], high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) [27], ultraviolet visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) [28,29], resonance light scattering (RLS) [30], spectrofluorimetry (SF) [31] and capillary electrophoresis (CE) [32] are only some examples of the methods used for measuring curcumin until now. These methods enjoy high accuracy, remarkable sensitivity and desirable selectivity.…”