Scientific Study

In this study, the antioxidant ability of peanut shell and skin extracts and their effects on the physical and structure properties of starch-chitosan film were investigated. The results showed that the DPPH radical scavenging ability of peanut skin extracts was significantly higher than the peanut shell extracts. This could be due to the rich rutin and 4-O-caffeoulquinic acid existed in the peanut skin extracts. When added the peanut skin and shell extracts into the starch-chitosan film, the apparent viscosity of film forming solution at 100 s-1 decreased. Moreover, water vapor permeability and swelling of film decreased with the addition of peanut skin and shell extracts. Two peanut extracts also increased the color L* and opacity of film. The tensile strength of film increased with the addition of peanut skin extracts, and decreased with peanut shell extracts. The addition of two extracts also resulted in the increase of endothermic temperature of starch-chitosan film. But there were no new peaks appeared in the FTIR image. Only the peaks at 3276 cm-1, 1382 cm-1, 1249 cm-1 shifted to 3273 cm-1, 1385 cm-1 and 1258 cm-1, which implied the peanut shell and skin extracts disturbed the hydrogen bond and vibration of molecular chain in film matrix.