Friday, 04 December 2009 18:44
Mogadouro, Northeastern part of
Portugal, in early November becomes the the capital of mushrooms, a festival organized by the group «
Pantorra». Each fall for more than a decade the group has met to study and celebrate the medical value of the humble fungus call the mushroom. So far the group has found some 500 native species of mushroom that thrive in he region including the Parque Natural do Douro Internacional. The antioxidant composition and properties of 18 Portuguese wild mushrooms (
Clitocybe alexandri,
Cortinarius glaucopus,
Fistulina hepatica,
Hydnum repandum,
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca,
Hypholoma capnoides,
Laccaria amethystina,
Laccaria laccata,
Lactarius aurantiacus,
Lactarius salmonicolor,
Lepista inversa,
Lepista sordida,
Mycena rosea,
Russula delica,
Russula vesca,
Suillus collinitus,
Suillus mediterraneensis,
Tricholoma sulphureum) were evaluated, in order to contribute to the overall characterization of these products. Their radical-scavenging capacity, reducing power and inhibition of lipid peroxidation measured in liposome solutions was fully studied. Furthermore, the tocopherols composition was determined by HPLC-fluorescence.
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