Phenolic diversity and antioxidant potential of different varieties of bamboo leaves using LC-ESI-QTOF-MS/MS and LC-ESI-QqQ-MS/MS.

Bamboo is a highly sustainable plant with a wide variety of leaves, yet little is known about its bioactive composition. Therefore, this study aims to characterize the phenolic profile and antioxidant capacity of 11 different varieties of bamboo leaves using liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. As a result, 81 phenolic compounds were tentatively identified, 29 of which were identified for the first time in the literature for bamboo leaves.