Journal of Hebei University (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 106-112.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2019.01.018

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Qualities and antioxidant activities of lotus leaf wax layer treatment and lotus petioles

GUO Chunyan, ZHANG Nan, XUE Jingjing, LIU Zhaoning, WEI Ran, CHU Jianzhou, YAO Xiaoqin   

  1. College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
  • Received:2018-05-15 Online:2019-01-25 Published:2019-01-25

Abstract: The paper mainly discussed the qualities and the antioxidant activities in the polished lotus leaves, the unpolished lotus leaves and the lotus petioles, in order to exploring whether the wax layer on lotus leaves affect the qualities of lotus leaves, and to indentifying the quality and antioxidant activity of lotus petioles. The results showed that the active and nutritional ingredients(except for vitamin C content)of the unpolished lotus leaves were significantly higher than that of the polished lotus leaves. The antioxidant activities of the polished lotus leaves were significantly higher than that of the unpolished lotus leaves. Lotus petioles showed high alkaloid content and powerful antioxidant activity. Therefore, lotus petioles have great potential to be utilized.

Key words: lotus leaf, lotus petiole, polish, active ingredients, antioxidant activity

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