Table 1.
Percent inhibition of pancreatic lipase activity and cholesterol micellar solubility as affected by varying concentrations of crude polyphenols (20–100 μg/mL) extracted from bignay Kalabaw fruits subjected to steam-blanching and water-blanching.
| Percent Inhibition per Process Treatment | Concentration of Crude Polyphenols Test Solutions (μg/mL) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 | |
| Pancreatic lipase inhibition (%) | |||||
| Control (Fresh) | 43.5 ± 6.50a | 40.6 ± 4.16a | 42.1 ± 5.36a | 46.4 ± 1.84a | 46.7 ± 3.84a |
| Steam-blanched | 37.6 ± 10.40b | 40.5 ± 2.80b | 39.5 ± 6.66c | 36.8 ± 2.20b | 37.5 ± 5.08b |
| Water-blanched | 34.4 ± 3.84c | 32.3 ± 2.75c | 40.0 ± 2.60b | 40.0 ± 3.20c | 38.8 ± 2.63c |
| Cholesterol micellar solubility inhibition (%) | |||||
| Control (Fresh) | 45.3 ± 1.25a | 44.9 ± 1.51b | 44.5 ± 0.96a | 43.8 ± 2.29ab | 44.6 ± 0.74ab |
| Steam-blanched | 44.9 ± 2.03ab | 48.6 ± 1.20a | 42.0 ± 1.78b | 42.3 ± 7.11b | 37.4 ± 2.23b |
| Water-blanched | 40.2 ± 2.53b | 40.9 ± 2.47ab | 43.4 ± 2.09ab | 46.0 ± 0.86a | 46.4 ± 0.93a |
Means in the same column (per inhibition type) followed by different letters are significantly different via Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) test at p ≤ 0.05.