Bioactive compounds, antioxidant capacity and antitumoral activity of ethanolic extracts from fruits and seeds of Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC. (Myrtaceae) is a native tree species from Brazil that has been scarcely studied. We investigated the phenolic composition, the antioxidant capacity and the antitumoral activity of ethanolic extracts from fruits (FE) and seeds (SE) of E.