Montmorency and Ba
laton tart cherries were
lyophi
lized and sequentia
lly extracted with hexane,ethy
l acetate, and methano
l. Methano
lic extracts of dried Ba
laton and Montmorency tart cherries(
Prunus cerasus) inhibited
lipid peroxidation induced by Fe
2+ at 25 ppm concentrations. Furtherpartitioning of this methano
l extract with EtOAc yie
lded a fraction that inhibited
lipid peroxidationby 76% at 25 ppm. Purification of this EtOAc fraction afforded eight po
lypheno
lic compounds, 5,7,4'-trihydroxyf
lavanone (
1), 5,7,4'-trihydroxyisof
lavone (
2), ch
lorogenic acid (
3), 5,7,3',4'-tetrahydroxyf
lavono
l-3-rhamnoside (
4), 5,7,4'-trihydroxyf
lavono
l 3-rutinoside (
5), 5,7,4'-trihydroxy-3'methoxyf
lavono
l-3-rutinoside (
6), 5,7,4'-trihydroxyisof
lavone-7-g
lucoside (
7), and 6,7-dimethoxy-5,8,4'-trihydroxyf
lavone(
8), as characterized by
1H and
13C NMR experiments. The antioxidant assays revea
led that7-dimethoxy-5,8,4'-trihydroxyf
lavone (
8) is the most active, fo
llowed by quercetin 3-rhamnoside,genistein, ch
lorogenic acid, naringenin, and genistin, at 10
M concentrations.Keywords: Prunus
cerasus; Ba
laton; Montmorency; antioxidant; f
lavonoids, isof
lavonoids