Ascorbic acid oxidase from drumstick, <i>Moringa pterygosperma</i>

Abstract

THE high content in ascorbic acid of the pods of the drumstick tree, Moringa pterygosperma, was demonstrated by Damodaran & Srinivasan [1935], using the Tilimans-Harris method. The starting point of the present investigation was the observation that the press juice from this material, in contrast to its tri- chloroacetic acid extract, exercised no reducing action on 2:6-dibromophenol.