Studies on bio-antioxidants——Ⅱ.An ESR study on the antioxidant efficiency of ascorbyl palmitate in micelles

The kinetics for the reaction of ascorbyl palmitate and 4-hydroxy-TEMPO,4-methoxy- TEMPO or 4-hexanoyloxy-TEMPO in CTAB and SDS micelles was studied by ESR spectroscopy. It was found that the behavior of ascorbyl palmitate is remarkably different from ascorbic acid in their antioxidant activity in micelles.The predominant factors governing the activity in micelles involve the lipophilicity of the antioxidant and the oxidant,the charge type of the substrates and the concentra- tion of the surfactant.As high as 2×10~4 fold rate variation was observed by changing the lipophilicity of the antioxidant and the microenvironment of the reaction medium.

Retardation of 4-Hydroxy-2-Transnonenal (HNE), a Toxic Aldehyde Formation by Antioxidants in Heat-Treated Corn Oil at Frying Temperature

The antioxidative properties of four antioxidants such as rosemary extracts (RE), tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), ascorbyl palmitate (AP), citric acid (CA) and their mixtures were investigated on the formation of 4-hydroxy-2-transnonenal (HNE) in commercial corn oil heated at 185°C for up to 6 hours. Among the antioxidants 100 ppm RE and a mixture of 200 ppm tertiary butylated hydroquinone (TBHQ) + 100 ppm ascorbyl palmitate (AP) + 50 ppm citric acid (CA) exhibited excellent antioxidative activity, as determined by the thiobarbituric acid reaction (TBARS) assay, measuring the formations of the secondary lipid oxidation products and by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), measuring the formation of the toxic α, β-unsaturated hydroxyaldehyde HNE after heat treatment of corn oil at 185°C up to 6 hours. TBHQ, AP and CA alone did not show much protective properties. The synergistic effects of TBHQ + AP + CA mixture shown to reduce the formation of HNE after 6 hours heat-treated corn oil by 27%. RE 100 ppm was also found to be a very effective antioxidant, reducing the formation of HNE after 6 hours heat-treated corn oil in the same condition by 29%.