Antimicrobial activity of fermented Theobroma cacao pod husk extract
“Antimicrobial activity of fermented Theobroma cacao pod husk extract”, vol. 13, pp. 7725-7735, 2014.
, Theobroma cacao L. contains more than 500 different chemical compounds some of which have been traditionally used for their antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic, immunomodulatory, vasodilatory, analgesic, and antimicrobial activities. Spontaneous aerobic fermentation of cacao husks yields a crude husk extract (CHE) with antimicrobial activity. CHE was fractioned by solvent partition with polar solvent extraction or by silica gel chromatography and a total of 12 sub-fractions were analyzed for chemical composition and bioactivity.