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Original Articles

TLC Fingerprint of Flavonoids and Saponins from Passiflora Species

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Pages 2285-2291 | Received 24 Jul 2004, Accepted 22 Mar 2005, Published online: 06 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

Several Passiflora species, known in Brazil as maracujás, are used as flavour and as juice in food industries, whereas passionflower extract has an ancient tradition in folk medicine as a sedative. Due to few phytochemical and pharmacological studies, there are no quality criteria for these Passiflora species as raw material. In this work, we present unique fingerprints of fourteen samples of Passiflora species relating to the presence of flavonoids and saponins. These chemical characterisations can provide, for example, authentication of samples, detection of adulterations, and differentiation between closely related species.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Prof. Gilson R. P. Moreira (Departamento de Zoologia, UFRGS, Brazil) and Prof. Cláudio Mondin (Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil) for locating, collecting and identifying the plant material. This work was supported by FAPERGS and CNPq (Brazil). We would like to thank an IFS (International Foundation for Science, Sweden) grant, code F/3081‐1 to GG.

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