Effects of high hydrostatic pressure on the binding capacity, interaction, and antioxidant activity of the binding products of cyanidin-3-glucoside and blueberry pectin.

Abstract In this study, the effects of high hydrostatic pressure (HP) treatment on the binding capacity, interaction, and antioxidant activity of the binding products of blueberry pectin (BP) and cyanidin-3-glucoside (C3G) were assessed. HP was found to significantly improve the adsorption between C3G and BP. After binding, the C3G concentration was found to be the highest (382.1 ± 13.2 μg/mg for BP) when using a C3G-BP mass ratio of 1:2, a pressure of 400 MPa, and a holding time of 15 min. HP processing decreased particle size and altered the characteristics of C3G-BP complexes. The main binding form of the complexes before HP treatment was pectin-wrapped C3G by hydrogen bond interaction, while HP caused charged groups in pectin to be more exposed and improve the electrostatic interaction between C3G and BP. The antioxidant activity results showed that the presence of BP could protect the ferric-reducing antioxidant power of C3G after HP treatment.