Fruit epicatechin, content

Most native Brazilian fruits have high flavonol content, mainly quercetin derivatives, when compared to well-known fruit sources such as apples (Genovese et al. 2008 Aheme and O Brien 2002). For example, Mana-cubiu Solarium sessiliflorum Dunal) was shown to be a very rich source of hydroxyciimamic acids, typical of members of the Solanaceae family, and also exhibited high antioxidant capacity by the ORAC method. Catechin and epicatechin were detected in tucuma (79 mg/100 g DW) and graviola Annona muricata L) (31 mg/100 g of sample DW) (Genovese etal. 2008). 

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