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Comparative Study of Chemical Composition, Antioxidant and Cholinesterase Inhibition Potential of Mentha pulegium Essential Oil

Medicinal plant Mentha pulegium L. can be found in the area of Europe and Mediterranean area, where it is used in as traditional medicine and in nutrition of local population. Because of the mint-like odour M. pulegium essential oil has wide application as food component of food and as a fragrance. In this work the chemical composition, antioxidant activity as well as and anticholinesterase potential of the essential oil of M. pulegium growing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were was assessed. Monoterpenoids pulegone (54.4%), p-menthone (14.0%) and piperitenone (12.8%), identified by GC-MS and GC-FID, were dominant essential oil chemical components. Analysezed essential oil showed good antioxidant activity, tested wby ith DPPH and FRAP assay, and moderate cholinesterase inhibition potential, tested by Elman’s assay. The promising biological activity of tested essential oil indicates to the possibility of its use in food as protecting antioxidant, in prevention of free radical linked diseases and diseases associated with low content of acetylcholine.

Mentha pulegium ; essential oil ; antioxidants ; cholinesterase inhibitors ; biological activity

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