antioxidants Article Antioxidant and In Vitro Preliminary Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Castanea sativa (Italian Cultivar “Marrone di Roccadaspide” PGI) Burs, Leaves, and Chestnuts Extracts and Their Metabolite Profiles by LC-ESI/LTQOrbitrap/MS/MS Antonietta Cerulli 1, Assunta Napolitano 1, Jan Hošek 2 , Milena Masullo 1, Cosimo Pizza 1 and Sonia Piacente 1,* 1 Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II n. 132, I-84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +39-089-969763; Fax: +39-089-969602 Abstract: The Italian “Marrone di Roccadaspide” (Castanea sativa), a labeled Protected Geograph- ical Indication (PGI) product, represents an important economic resource for the Italian market. With the aim to give an interesting opportunity to use chestnuts by-products for the development of nutraceutical and/or cosmetic formulations, the investigation of burs and leaves along with chestnuts of C. sativa, cultivar “Marrone di Roccadaspide”, has been performed. The phenolic, tannin, Citation: Cerulli, A.; Napolitano, A.; and flavonoid content of the MeOH extracts of “Marrone di Roccadaspide” burs, leaves, and chestnuts Hošek, J.; Masullo, M.; Pizza, C.; as well as their antioxidant activity by spectrophotometric methods (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl Piacente, S. Antioxidant and In Vitro (DPPH), Trolox Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity (TEAC), and Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power Preliminary Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Castanea sativa (Italian (FRAP) have been evaluated.