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DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.2046
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
KEYWORDS
antioxidant activity, Gardenia jasminoides var. radicans Makikno, Macroporous resins, response
surface methodology, yellow pigment
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G. jasminoides var. radicans Makikno is a rare natural water-soluble Agricultural University). 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH)
carotenoid, which mainly composed of crocetin and crocins (Yin & were purchased from Fuzhou Feijing Biotechnology Co. LTD in
Liu, 2018). It has been applied to foods, such as candy, noodles, and China. All aqueous solutions were prepared with distilled water.
beverages, as a natural food colorant due to its good water solubil- Other reagents were of analytic grade.
ity, low toxicity, and allergy (Bathaie et al., 2014; Xiao et al., 2017).
Besides, it is characterized by strong dyeing ability, high stability,
abundant nutritional value compared with other natural colorants 2.2 | Extraction of GYP and solvent selection
(Yang et al., 2009). In addition, pigments responsible for yellow,
orange are especially interested in food companies because they The dried gardenia fruit was crushed by a flour-mixing machine and
showed more widely applications than other colors of pigments the powder granularity was 0–1 mm. 0.5 g gardenia powder and dif-
(Hatzakis et al., 2019). Therefore, the demand for GYP production ferent solvents (distilled water, 60% methanol–water solution, 60%
and purification is increasing in the international markets. ethanol–water solution and 60% isopropanol–water solution) were
Nowadays, selecting an effective method to generate pigments added into a sealed test tube for extraction in designed extraction
is not easy, since the changes of temperature, pH, time et al may time, solvent concentration, liquid/solid ratio, and temperature.
be led to degrading some compounds related with color (Gimenez
et al., 2015; Li et al., 2020; Moller et al., 2020). Therefore, it is
a key step to control these variables influencing the process ef- 2.3 | Single-factor experiment
ficiency. Combining with the variables that offer the maximum
yield of the target compounds could provide an appropriate way The effect of every single factor on the extraction yield of GYP was
to solve the extraction limitations of pigments based on feasible evaluated by the single-factor experiment. The initial conditions
test conditions (Pinela et al., 2019). The response surface meth- were designed as followed ethanol concentration 60%, liquid/solid
odology (RSM) was commonly used in parameter testing and its ratio 12:1 ml/mg, extraction time 40 min, extraction temperature
interactive effects (Parra-Campos & Ordonez-Santos, 2019; Lin 50℃. The effect of each single-factor (ethanol concentration, liquid/
et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2020). To our best knowledge, there are solid ratio, extraction time, extraction temperature) was tested as
few studies about the optimal extraction of compounds related follows: A factor was varied in defined ranges while the other fac-
to GYP. Sarfarazi et al. (2019) reported the extraction process of tors were kept constant in each extraction experiment. Therefore,
crocin pigment of saffron through subcritical water extraction the effect of ethanol on extraction was tested at 50%, 60%, 70%,
(SWE). However, as one of the precious spices all over the world, 80%, and 90% ethanol while the other factors were kept constant.
saffron is too expensive to be widely applied as a colorant. Shang Similarly, the following effects of other factors were tested: liquid/
et al. (2019) extracted GYP from G. jasminoides Ellis by RSM. solid ratio from 10:1 to 16:1 ml/g; extraction time from 30 to 70 min;
Nevertheless, G. jasminoides Ellis, as traditional Chinese medicine, and extraction temperature from 30 to 70℃.
is mainly studied in the effect of its antioxidant components on
human health.
It has been reported that G. jasminoides var. radicans Makikno 2.4 | Experimental design
contains a higher amount of GYP compared with G. jasminoides Ellis
(Chen et al., 2012). This study aims to optimize the extraction pro- The optimun conditions of the extraction process were evaluated
cess of GYP from G. jasminoides var. radicans Makikno through heat- by Box–Behnken design (BBD) of RSM. According to the results
aided solvent extraction and to assess its antioxidant activity (AA). from the single-factor experiments, the levels of coded independent
For that purpose, the RSM was used to optimize processing param- variables (ethanol concentration [X1], liquid/solid ratio [X 2], extrac-
eters (ethanol concentration, liquid/solid ratio, extraction time, and tion time [X3], extraction temperature [X4]) were selected to obtain
extraction temperature). Then, a suitable macroporous resin was se- optimistic extraction conditions as shown in Table S1. A total of 29
lected to purify GYP. Meanwhile, the major component was isolated experiments with different combinations of four factors were per-
and identified from the purified GYP. formed based on BBD (Table S2). The absorbance and AA of GYP
were selected as the responses. A second-order model was utilized
in response surface methodology (Guo et al., 2019). The equation
2 | M ATE R I A L S A N D M E TH O DS was expressed as follows:
4 3 4
2.1 | Materials and reagents 𝛽 ij X2i +
∑ ∑ ∑
Y = 𝛽0 + 𝛽 ij Xi Xj ,
i=1 i=1 j=1+1
2.5 | Determination of GYP absorbance The absorbance of the solution at 440 nm was determined by UV/
Vis spectrophotometer. The adsorption rate of pigment was calcu-
After the extraction, the obtained solutions of GYP were centri- lated using the following equations:
fuged at 4,500 r/min for 5 min. 1 ml supernatant and same concen-
tration aqueous ethanol were transferred into a 100 ml volumetric
[( ) ]
Ar ( % ) = A0 − A1 ∕A0 × 100 % ,
flask and then the final volume was adjusted to 100 ml. Aqueous
ethanol was used as a contrast, and the absorbance of the sample where A0 is the absorbance of pigment solution before adsorption, A1
solution was determined at 440 nm by UV-Vis spectrophotometer is the absorbance of pigment solution after absorption, Ar is the ad-
(Zhu et al., 2014). sorption rate of sample (%).
The specific operations about absorption and desorption texts of The solubility of GYP in different polar solvents was significantly
GYP were described as follows: thirteen different dry resins (1.0 g) different. Therefore, choosing a suitable solvent could improve
were mixed with aliquots (50 ml) of diluted pigment solution in a the extraction amount of GYP (Rammuni et al., 2019). As shown in
250-ml conical flask with a lid, respectively. Then, the flasks were Fig. S1, the maximum absorbance was obtained with ethanol–water
put into a shaker and continued to shake (120 rpm) at 28℃ for 24 hr. solution (0.835) followed by isopropanol–water solution (0.687),
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methanol–water solution (0.631) and water (0.457). The result is the yield of the extracts. It also indicated most of the compounds
similar with Sharmila et al. (2019) that reported the organic solvent connected with GYP may have high-polarity. The similar change
combined with water may facilitate better extraction solvents of trend appeared for the influences of liquid/solid ratio, extraction
pigments that are soluble in water and organic solvent. So, etha- time, and extraction temperature (Figure 1b–d). The absorbance of
nol–water solution was selected as the ideal extraction solvent for GYP reached the maximum when liquid/solid ratio, extraction time,
further study. and extraction temperature reached 12:1 ml/g, 50 min, and 60℃,
respectively. Suitable extraction time and extraction temperature
can benefit to the mass transfer to the solution. However, excessive
3.2 | Single-factor experiment of GYP extraction extraction time and extraction temperature may be attributed to the
degradation of pigments, such as oxidation or pyrolysis to form other
Single-factor experiments of GYP extraction were carried out with compounds (Boon et al., 2010; Carmona et al., 2006).
four selected parameters including ethanol concentration, liquid/
solid ratio, extraction time, extraction temperature, which provided
a suitable range for the BBD (Gao et al., 2017). 3.3 | Optimization of extraction by RSM
From Figure 1a, the absorbance of GYP first increased with
the ethanol concentration from 50% to 60%, then fell when the The RSM can analyze the interactive effects of all variables and
ethanol concentration was in the range of 60%–90%. The high- provide the optimal conditions based on the tested ranges. It is a
est absorbance of GYP was 0.672 with the ethanol concentration special consideration to obtain the best ranges of the relevant vari-
of 60%. The result was similar to that reported by Liu, Luo, Wang, ables through an in-depth extraction. Backes et al. (2018) reported
and Yuan (2019), who found low ethanol concentration enhanced that non-best ranges of solid–liquid extraction may lead to incorrect
F I G U R E 1 The effect of ethanol concentration (a), liquid/solid ratio (b), extraction time (c), and extraction temperature (d) on the
absorbance of gardenia yellow pigment
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TA B L E 1 Analysis of mean square deviation of regress equation Y2 = 61.71 + 0.92X1 – 8.79X 2 + 1.31X3 + 1.17X4 –3.83X1X 2 + 0.47
for the absorbance of GYP X1X3 –0.82X1X4 – 0.35X 2X3 + 2.89X 2X4 – 11.93X3X4 + 8.06X21 + 2.3
Sum of Mean 3X22 + 12.51X23 –17.80X24.
Source squares df squares F-Value Prob > F X1, X 2, X4, and X3 are the values of four independent variables
Model 0.18 14 0.013 17.86 <.0001 (ethanol concentration, liquid/solid ratio, extraction time, extraction
3.60E-03 1 3.60E-03 5.15 .0396 interaction of X3X4 (extraction time vs. extraction temperature) had
X22
significant effect for antioxidant activity (AA, Table 2).
X23 0.044 1 0.044 62.98 <.0001
df, degrees of freedom; F-value, Fischer test value; p, probability value; R 2-determination
coefficient.
To verify the optimal values of extraction conditions predicted in Figure 3, the highest absorption ratios of GYP was 95.4% on ma-
by RSM, the real experiment was operated under the optimal con- croporous resin of BJ-7514. It may be attributed to acrylic acid of
ditions. Ultimately, the real experimental values were absorbance BJ-7514 possesses the stronger capacity to bond with GYP con-
(0.78) and AA (84.6%), which were well matched with values pre- tained crocetin and crocins compared with other resins regarded
dicted by the regression model. Therefore, the extraction conditions polystyrene as a functional group. Therefore, BJ-7514 was thought
acquired by RSM were practical. of as a potential resin to purify GYP from G. jasminoides var. radicans
Makikno.
F I G U R E 2 The three-dimensional plot showing the correlative effects of extraction time and ethanol concentration (a), extraction liquid/
solid ratio and ethanol concentration (b), extraction temperature and time (c), extraction temperature and liquid/solid ratio (d), extraction
temperature and ethanol concentration (e) and extraction time and liquid/solid ratio (f) on the value of absorbance of GYP (part A) and the
AA of GYP (part B)
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