Antioxidant Activity and Volatile Composition of Red Araçá Pulp Under Different Drying Conditions

Table 3

Antioxidant capacity of extracts obtained from araçá dried under different conditions.

Run	Drying conditions	TPC (mgGAE/100 garaçá)^a	IC50 (µgaraçá/mL)^a	AAT (mgascorbic acid/100 garaçá)^a
1	40°C/1.5 m/s	556.28 ± 1.71	1554.36 ± 17.39	1563.88 ± 61.99
2	60°C/1.5 m/s	347.23 ± 1.28	1945.94 ± 18.15	1165.42 ± 39.53
3	40°C/2.5 m/s	392.84 ± 3.57	1688.02 ± 11.28	1829.47 ± 16.10
4	60°C/2.5 m/s	524.09 ± 0.84	1490.79 ± 1.97	1752.81 ± 2.61
5	50°C/2.0 m/s	542.68 ± 4.35	1265.21 ± 3.24	1916.10 ± 0.05

TPC: total phenolic assay by the Folin–Ciocalteu method; IC₅₀: inhibitory concentration defined as the concentration of extract required to inhibit the production of DPPH radicals by 50%; AAT: total antioxidant activity by the phosphomolybdenum reducing method. ^aAverage value and standard deviation of triplicate runs.