Antioxidant Ability of Green Tea in Conjunction with Processing and Quality

摘要

First order interaction of antioxidant capability of epicatechin was investigated in vitro by methods of response surface and central composite general rotary design.The results indicated that based on molar concentration,the ability to scavenge free radicals were in the order:ECG > EC > EGCG > ECG × EGCG > EGC.This suggests that the antioxidant ability of individual catechin had positively interacted effects under physiological condition.The free radical scavenging ability changed during tea processing.As compared with the fresh tea leaves,the leaves after indoor-spreading and Yao-Qing had a higher IC50of for DPPH free radical scavenge,being increased by 11.01%.It is deduced that the process technology of indoor-spreading might improve the quality of manufactured green tea.