Antioxidant profiling of Latkan (Baccaurea ramiflora Lour.) wine

Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. (Family: Euphorbiaceae), locally know as Latkan, is a versatile plant with number of uses. Latkan wine is traditionally used in Malayasia and parts of India. In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the total phenols, flavonoids, flavonols and proanthocyanidins as well as DPPH scavenging activity of the wine, prepared from the fruit pulp, with respect to aging in comparison with the juice. The total phenols, flavonoids, flavonols and proanthocyanidins ranged from 141.27-313.78 mg GAE/L, 149.2-531.2 mg QE/L, 103.2-179.2 mg QE/L and 1.46-8.45 mu g catechin/L, respectively. The free radical seavenging activity by DPPH method showed the inhibition (%) of the samples in between 5.85-37%.