PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND INVITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF UNRIPE FRUIT OF FICUS HISPIDA

Varalakshmi Lattupally*, Amrutham Sruthi, Sudha Mudurukolla, Adla Sangeetha and Katta Sarika

ABSTRACT

Chemical constituents such as Flavonoids, glycosides, alkaloids, tannins, proteins, phytosterols etc, present in
plants, these chemical constituents are responsible to treat many diseases, free radicals accumulation in the body
causes many diseases, antioxidants are substances that protects cells from the damage caused by free radicals ,
medicinal plants have antioxidant property, so the aim of the present study was to evaluate the invitro antioxidant
activity of methanol extract of unripe fruit of ficus hispida Linn, family: Moraceae. Methanolic extract of unripe
fruit of ficus hispida have been evaluated for in vitro antioxidant activity using DPPH radical scavenging and
ascorbic acid was used as a standard, unripe fruits possess significant free radical scavenging properties at
concentration-dependent manner. The results show that unripe fruit of ficus hispida has an antioxidant activity.

Keywords: Ficus hispida, Ascorbic acid, invitro antioxidant activity, DPPH.