I am attempting to extract Allium cepa for therapeutic purposes for a pilot project. While there are a lot of methods listed in the different papers, I am slightly confused about a basic step to initiate the process:
should I crush the allium cepa (onion) prior to soaking in ethanol (or other reagents) as recommended by the papers or should I soak the whole bulb?
Would there be a difference either way? The surface area exposed to ethanol (or other reagents) changes-increases, if the bulb is crushed before the treatment; but would it impact the constituency/ functional quality of the extract?
Cut into pieces rather than crushing them and soak in solvents for better results. You can alternatively use it whole and soak it in the solvent.
It is preferable to first read literature about your compound of interest before proceeding with the technique.
- Hello, maybe you can try these two in bench-scale testing to observe the difference if time permits. With best wishes.
Crushing will be compounds together and they can react. If crushing, then extract fast. If not, cut in small pieces. The method depends on your objectives.
Yao-Yao Jiang - Yes, thank you. I will be trying both- if time permits; just wanted a benchmark for which should be attempted primarily in case I do not have time to attempt it later.
Gangue Tiburce - Thank you for the tip.
Saeed Ayaz Khan - I am interested in the comparison between the whole and yields from different extraction methods rather than a specific compound. Thank you for the suggestion.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Phytochemistry
- Extracts