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Volume 4, Issue 2 American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN 2348-9502
Natural Products Congress & World Pharma Congress 2017
October 16-18, 2017
3rd World Congress on
NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY AND RESEARCH
&
12th WORLD PHARMA CONGRESS
October 16-18, 2017 Budapest, Hungary
An in vitro comparative study on antioxidant, antibacterial and nutraceutical properties of three
different colored scented rice varieties of North- Eastern region
Rashna Devi, Banasmita Devi, Balagopalan Unni and Manashi Garg
Assam Downtown University, India
North-East region of India is rich in production of colored and scented rice, a hulled grain with a distinctive red or purple color
in addition to light grey on its bran. Of all the colored rice, especially black rice has long been consumed and is considered as
a healthy food in Korea. Although, the colored rice is hard in its cooking texture, they possess beneficial effects of colored pigment,
the naturally occurring colored substances like anthocyanin that belongs to flavanoids family which is reported to combat against the
damaging effect of toxic free radicals and has great pharmacological property. Equally interesting is this food for the elimination of
a series of other problems including obesity, edema, hypertension, diseases of kidneys and diabetes by releasing glucose in a fairly
moderate way. The presence of oryzanol in the whole rice also ensures its affectivity in reducing cholesterol level (LDL) in blood.
With its potent bio-active compounds such as phenolic compounds, tannins, lignin, oryzanol, tocotrienols, tocopherols, phenyl
propanoids, and flavonoids, the colored rice(s) are responsible for counteracting wide range of illnesses.
Biography
Manashi Garg is a professor of Biotechnology & Biochemistry atAssam Downtown University, India. Her research focus in vitro antibacterial activity of biosynthesized
silver nanoparticles from ethyl acetate extract of Hydrocotyle Sibthorpioides against multidrug resistant microbes.
Manashi Garg et al., American Journal of Ethnomedicine, 4:2
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-002