<i>Litsea cubeba</i> essential oil: chemical profile, antioxidant activity, cytotoxicity, effect against <i>Fusarium verticillioides</i> and fumonisins production

Pante, Giseli Cristina; Castro, Juliana Cristina; Lini, Renata Sano; Romoli, Jéssica Cristina Zoratto; Almeida, Rafaela Takako Ribeiro de; Garcia, Francielle P.; Nakamura, Celso Vataru; Pilau, Eduardo Jorge; Filho, Benício Alves de Abreu; Machinski, Miguel

doi:10.1080/03601234.2021.1890519

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“…Table 3 lists the yield and grouped compounds of L. cubeba fruit essential oil from both extraction methods at different harvesting times, accounting for 99.03–99.71% of the total essential oil. Regardless of the extraction method used, the main component identified in L. cubeba fruit essential oils was geranial (α-citral), neral (β-citral) and D-limonene, which is consistent with previous studies [ 45 , 46 ]. Concerning the composition of L. cubeba fruit essential oil, it was found that harvesting time indeed had a notable influencing factor on both extraction types.…”

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Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction of Essential Oils from Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers. at Different Harvesting Times and Their Skin-Whitening Cosmetic Potential

Qiu

Wang

2022

Antioxidants

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Litsea cubeba fruit, which has the highest content of essential oils in the plant, is an important woody oil plant resource. In this study, the influence of the solvent-free microwave extraction (SFME) and hydrodistillation (HD) techniques on the extraction of L. cubeba fruit essential oils was investigated in terms of yield, kinetics, and chemical composition, where the former conditions were optimized by the response surface design. The maximal essential oil yield was obtained under the optimal SFME process conditions (442 W and 24 min), where the irradiation time was the most important variable (p < 0.0001). Regardless of the extraction method used, the influence of harvesting time on L. cubeba fruit essential oils were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed afterwards, where the SFME essential oil from July showed its superiority over the others regarding its higher extraction yield and better bioactivities. Compared with the HD method, the SFME approach could significantly enhance the yield of essential oils extracted from June to August by nearly 47% with the advantages of saving energy and low environmental impact. Interestingly, the SFME method could selectively extract monoterpene hydrocarbons such as D-limonene with relation to different compositions and bioactivities. Moreover, SFME essential oil showed a better inhibitory effect on tyrosinase and melanogenesis, indicating its skin-whitening potential as a new promising natural cosmetic ingredient.

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Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction of Essential Oils from Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers. at Different Harvesting Times and Their Skin-Whitening Cosmetic Potential

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Wang

2022

Antioxidants

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“…The minimum inhibitory concentration of Fusarium verticillioides was 125 µg/mL and the inhibitory effect was dose dependent. The antioxidant effect of Litsea cubeba essential oil was evaluated by DPPH and ABTS methods, showing excellent antioxidant activity [ 76 ]. Bomfim et al reported that Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil (REO) had a similar effect.…”

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Toxic Mechanism and Biological Detoxification of Fumonisins

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Food safety is related to the national economy and people’s livelihood. Fumonisins are widely found in animal feed, feed raw materials, and human food. This can not only cause economic losses in animal husbandry but can also have carcinogenicity or teratogenicity and can be left in animal meat, eggs, and milk which may enter the human body and pose a serious threat to human health. Although there are many strategies to prevent fumonisins from entering the food chain, the traditional physical and chemical methods of mycotoxin removal have some disadvantages, such as an unstable effect, large nutrient loss, impact on the palatability of feed, and difficulty in mass production. As a safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly detoxification technology, biological detoxification attracts more and more attention from researchers and is gradually becoming an accepted technique. This work summarizes the toxic mechanism of fumonisins and highlights the advances of fumonisins in the detoxification of biological antioxidants, antagonistic microorganisms, and degradation mechanisms. Finally, the future challenges and focus of the biological control and degradation of fumonisins are discussed.

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“…Currently only a few results can be found which compare the antioxidant activity of LCEO. Pante et al [ 37 ] found out the total antioxidant capacity of LCEO 104.4 mmol Trolox per mg of sample. She et al [ 33 ] found that the IC 50 values for DPPH radical scavenging were 8.56%, 6.59%, and 4.72%, and varied depending on the month of harvesting.…”

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Role of Litsea cubeba Essential Oil in Agricultural Products Safety: Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Applications

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Galovičová

Vuković

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Plants

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The essential oil from Litsea cubeba (LCEO) has good antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-insect properties, which gives it the potential for use as a natural additive to food resources and food products in order to prevent spoilage and extend shelf life. In this study the biological activity related to food preservation was observed. The main volatile organic compounds were geranial (39.4%), neral (29.5%), and limonene (14.3%). Antioxidant activity was 30.9%, which was equal to 167.94 µg of Trolox per mL of sample. Antimicrobial activity showed the strongest inhibition against Serratia marcescens by disk diffusion method and minimum inhibitory concentrations MIC 50 and MIC 90 were the lowest for Micrococcus luteus with values 1.46 and 3.52 µL/mL, respectively. Antimicrobial activity of the LCEO vapor phase showed strong inhibition of microorganisms on apples, pears, potatoes, and kohlrabies. Over 50% of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and yeasts were inhibited by a concentration of 500 µL/mL. The inhibition of microorganisms was concentration dependent. Anti-insect activity was also strong, with 100% lethality of Pyrrhocoris apterus at a concentration of 25%. These results suggest that LCEO could be potentially used as a food preservative.

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Litsea cubeba essential oil: chemical profile, antioxidant activity, cytotoxicity, effect against Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisins production

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction of Essential Oils from Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers. at Different Harvesting Times and Their Skin-Whitening Cosmetic Potential

Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction of Essential Oils from Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers. at Different Harvesting Times and Their Skin-Whitening Cosmetic Potential

Toxic Mechanism and Biological Detoxification of Fumonisins

Role of Litsea cubeba Essential Oil in Agricultural Products Safety: Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Applications

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