Aye Aye Myint  Jaehoon Kim

Vol. 30,  No. 3, pp. 195-202, Sep.  2024
10.7464/ksct.2024.30.3.195

Allium hookeri root Subcritical water Bioactive compounds severity

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Plant polyphenols have attracted attention recently because of their abundance in the human diet, high antioxidant effects, and ability to prevent various diseases associated with oxidative stress, such as cancer and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, this study demonstrated the extraction of bioactive phenolic compounds from Allium hoorkei root (AHR) using subcritical water extraction (scWE) under various temperatures (120 ~ 160 oC) and times (30 ~ 180 min) at a fixed pressure (10 MPa) and AHR to water ratio (1:20, w/w). Furthermore, this study used severity factors, the combined effect of the temperature and time, in order to optimize the conditions for achieving a high yield and efficient recovery of target bioactive phenolic compounds while minimizing the degradation of the extracted products and maintaining a high selectivity. Subcritical water extraction at 160 oC for 30 min (severity of 3.24) produced a relatively high yield (88%) and high number of bioactive compounds including total phenolic contents (31.3 mg GAE/g dry AHR) and rare sugars (D-picose, D-talose, and D-tagatose) compared to Soxhlet extracts obtained from extraction for 8 h with water and 75% ethanol. As a result, the extracts obtained from the green scWE process may have high potential applications in medicines and functional foods because of their high bioactivity and safety.