Use of the attenuation of luminol-perborate chemiluminescence with flow injection analysis for the total antioxidant activity in tea infusions, wines, and grape seeds.

摘要

This study establishes a simple and fast flow injection analysis methodology for the determination of the antioxidant activity in wines, tea infusions, and grape seeds, based on the inhibition effect of their natural antioxidants on the Co(II)/EDTA-induced luminol-perborate chemiluminescence. At the optimum operational conditions, the antioxidant activity was measured by plotting the inhibition percentage vs logarithm of sample mass to calculate the IC 50 (mass of sample needed to reduce in 50% the chemiluminescence in absence of the antioxidant). The method was examined with pure phenolic compounds for the purpose of relating the molecular structure with the response of the method, and then with the composition of tea infusions, wines, and grape seeds on the antioxidant activity. The results revealed that the white and green tea samples and the red wine had a stronger antioxidant activity because these showed smaller IC 50. Results showed good agreement with the total biophenolic content determined by the Folin-Ciocalteu method.