Investigations on Bioactive Compounds and In Vitro Biological Potent of Corchorus olitorius. L from Algerian Cultivar †

Abstract

The evaluation of phytopharmaceutical, antioxydant and antimicrobial activities still a useful and interesting task, especially for unknown and less used medicinal plants in traditional herbal medicine. These plants represent a new source of active compounds. \nCorchorus olitorius Linn (Tiliaceae) is an important edible plant in many Arab countries such as Egypt or Sudan1, and extreme east of Algeria, it is used for the preparation of a very popular hot soup (called molokhia). In West Algeria, this plant is reported to be used, for the first time, for medicinal purposes. \nIn the present study, polyphenolic potential and in vitro biological activities of Corchorus olitorius .L are investigated and some preliminary results exhibit an interesting free radical scavenging potential for studied plant proportional to a richness in secondary metabolites .