Abstract
Steviol glucosides (SGs) such as rubusoside (Ru), stevioside (Ste), rebaudioside A (RebA) and stevioside glucosides (SG) are herbal tea sweeteners that enhance the solubility and stability of a number of pharmaceutically important compounds. The complex of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) with 10% (w/v) each Ru, Ste, RebA or SG enhanced the water solubility of EGCG over 15 times to 345, 312, 341, or 320 mg/mL, respectively. The 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging (SC50) activities of EGCG, EGCG-Ru, EGCG-Ste, EGCG-RebA, and EGCG-SG in water were 5.88, 6.03, 6.52, 4.89, and 4.23 μg/mL, respectively. EGCGs complexed with different SGs maintained inhibitory activities against human intestinal maltase, human pancreatic α-amylase, and the growth of Streptococcus mutans, Helicobacter pylori, Salmonella typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, and Clostridium difficile. In glucose tolerance test using C57BL/6 mice, plasma glucose levels in mice treated with EGCG or EGCG-Ste complex were decreased by 9.34%, which was 31.08% lower than those treated with maltose. The efficient and cost-effective EGCG-SGs production method might be applicable to produce water soluble bioactive nutraceuticals in large scale.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 512-517 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Sept 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (IPET) through High Value-added Food Technology Development Program (1403-20160048) funded by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Republic of Korea and by a grant (NRF-2015R1D1A1A01056929; D. Kim, and 2015R1D1A4A01020522; T.T. Hanh Nguyen) of the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Biomedical Engineering