Cytotoxicity and Antioxidative Effects of Ethanolic Extract Green and Red Cultivar Ganyong Rhizome (Canna indica Linn) against Colon Cancer Cell Line WiDr

摘要

Ganyong is a food crops grown in Indonesia. Ganyong rhizome often called ganyong tuber has been used as food by people in antiquity. Now it's the utilization of tuber of this plant as food less interest. Ganyong tuber has a high fibre content, butyric acid and there is some secondary metabolite compounds include: alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, steroid and triterpenoid, phenolic. The Group of compounds most have activity as antioxidant and anticancer. Colon cancer sufferers in the world occupy third place, and will expected to go up in number due to dietary changes and less unhealthy activity. Ganyong who grew up in indonesia is composed of two varieties red and green ganyong and differences between these two varieties have not been much studied.