Annalisa Chiavaroli, Fabrizio Masciulli, Cinzia Ingallina, Luisa Mannina, Maria Loreta Libero, Simonetta Cristina Di Simone, Alessandra Acquaviva, Nilofar, Lucia Recinella, Sheila Leone, Luigi Brunetti, Simone Carradori, Luca Cantò, Giustino Orlando, Gokhan Zengin, Abdullah Ibrahim Uba, Ugur Cakilcioğlu, Muzaffer Mukemre, Omer Elkiran, Maura Di Vito, Luigi Menghini, Claudio Ferrante
"Sulmona Red Garlic" is a well-known Italian traditional product. Bulbs, used for culinary purposes, have been largely investigated for their medicinal properties whereas aerial bulbils are usually removed as waste material. Here, for the first time, chemical composition and biological properties of the hydroalcoholic extract from aerial bulbils were investigated. Complementary information on metabolite composition were obtained using both NMR based untargeted and HPLC-DAD targeted methodologies. The NMR analysis revealed the presence of sugars, organic acids, amino acids, organosulphur compounds (methiin, alliin, allicin and cycloalliin), and other secondary metabolites...
January 2024: Food Research International