Antioxidant and Phytochemical Test of Ziziphus mauritiana Ethanol Extract

Abstract

Ziziphus mauritiana is one of the plants that can grow in Indonesia. Many of these plants have potential antioxidant compounds. Z. mauritiana ethanol extract was obtained through maceration of ziziphus mauritiana bark, toward the extract was then continued to do phytochemical screening and antioxidant activity testing using DPPH method. The phytochemical screening results shown that the extract contains a classes of compound are alkaloid, flavonoid, phenolic, saponin, and tannin. It was known that IC50 value of ethanol extract was 75.8304 ppm. Keywords— antioxidants, DPPH, phytochemicals, phenolics, Ziziphus mauritiana