Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0412
ISSN: 2167-0412
University of Sfax, LASEM-ENIS, PB BPW 3038, Sfax, Tunisia
Research Article
Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents of Some Plant Extracts from Tunisia Southern Landscape by Using Different Extraction Techniques: The Case
of Retama reatam
Author(s): Asma Rejab and Hatem Ksibi*
Nowadays traditional medicine, a source of several bioactive molecules for therapeutic purposes, has become a cure for various diseases. In fact, the evaluation of plant exploitation has become progressively significant and this for their therapeutic effects of many traditional medicines may be due to the immense presence of natural antioxidants. In this respect, Retama reatam was chosen among six herbal Tunisian plants traditionally known for their therapeutic virtues, as the best source of total polyphenol content (1122,927g GEA/g extract) with an important extraction yield as ethanol is the solvent. The Soxhlet extraction always has the lowest value in total polyphenol content (164,857 GEA/g extract) for such solvent. The total flavonoid content of the different extracts is not significantly different from each other. However, the yield extraction remains higher for ethanolic extra.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2167-0412.19.8.337