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Rancimat and PDSC accelerated techniques for evaluation of oxidative stability of soybean oil with plant extracts

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Taking into account the importance of natural antioxidants in the preservation of oils and fats, the present study evaluated the antioxidant action of five plant extracts in the control of soybean oil stability, by means of the accelerated techniques Rancimat and PDSC. These plants are rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), and senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl). The plant extracts and also the synthetic antioxidant BHT were added to the samples of crude soybean oil at the concentration of 1,000 mg kg−1. The values of total phenolic contents ranged from 8.7 ± 0.4 to 63.0 ± 2.3 mg GAE g−1 extract and a strong positive correlation was observed between the total phenolic contents and the overall antioxidant activity of the plant extracts. Such high values indicate a good protection of the analyzed soybean oil, moreover for the Rosemary extract that was superior to the remaining extracts. In the Rancimat technique the rosemary extract was more effective than the synthetic BHT antioxidant. The OIT values of Rosemary extract and the BHT antioxidant were equivalent, and the former, showed the highest phenolic contents among the extracts, for all the performed tests, confirming that it is a powerful natural source of antioxidants.

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The authors acknowledge the Brazilian agencies FAPEAM, Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas, by the Ph. D. scholarship, and to MCT and FINEP.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos, CT, Campus I, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    A. M. T. M. Cordeiro, M. A. A. D. Silva & I. A. A. Silva

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química, CCEN, Campus I, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    M. L. Medeiros

  3. Campus de Pinheiro, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Pinheiro, MA, Brazil

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  4. Laboratório de Combustíveis e Materiais—LACOM, Departamento de Química, CCEN, Campus I, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    A. L. Souza, N. Queiroz & A. G. Souza

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Cordeiro, A.M.T.M., Medeiros, M.L., Silva, M.A.A.D. et al. Rancimat and PDSC accelerated techniques for evaluation of oxidative stability of soybean oil with plant extracts. J Therm Anal Calorim 114, 827–832 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-013-3036-0

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