Investigations on Bioactive Compounds and In Vitro Biological Potent of Corchorus olitorius. L from Algerian Cultivar ^†

The evaluation of phytopharmaceutical, antioxydant and antimicrobial activities still a useful and interesting task, especially for unknown and less used medicinal plants in traditional herbal medicine. These plants represent a new source of active compounds.

Corchorus olitorius Linn (Tiliaceae) is an important edible plant in many Arab countries such as Egypt or Sudan¹, and extreme east of Algeria, it is used for the preparation of a very popular hot soup (called molokhia). In West Algeria, this plant is reported to be used, for the first time, for medicinal purposes.

In the present study, polyphenolic potential and in vitro biological activities of Corchorus olitorius .L are investigated and some preliminary results exhibit an interesting free radical scavenging potential for studied plant proportional to a richness in secondary metabolites .