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Molecules 2009, 14, 1160-1170; doi:10.3390/molecule OPEN ACCESS molecules ISSN 1420-3049 /journal/molecules Article Parabens as Agents for Improving Crocetin Esters’ Shelf-Life in Aqueous Saffron Extracts Luana Maggi 1, Manuel Carmona 1, Amaya Zalacain 1, Magdalena Martínez Tomé 2, María Antonia Murcia 2 and Gonzalo Luis Alonso 1,* 1 Cátedra de Química Agrícola. E.T.S.I. Agrónomos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario, 02071 Albacete, Spain; E-mail: Luana.Maggi@uclm.es (L.M.), Manuel.Carmona@uclm.es (M.C.), Amaya.Zalacain@uclm.es (A.Z.) 2 Área de Nutrición y Bromatología. Facultad de Veterinaria y CYTA. Universidad de Murcia. Campus de Espinardo. Espinardo 30071. Murcia. Spain; E-mail: mmtome@um.es (M-M.T.), mamurcia@um.es (A.M.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: Gonzalo.Alonso@uclm.es. Received: 26 February 2009; in revised form: 10 March 2009 / Accepted: 11 March 2009 / Published: 16 March 2009 Abstract: The effect of parabens on the shelf-life of crocetin esters and picrocrocin in aqueous saffron solutions was studied. Degradation of saffron crocetin esters fits a first- order kinetics model, and the results indicated that the crocetin (β-D-glucosyl)-(β-D- gentiobiosyl) esters were more stable than the crocetin di-(β-D-gentiobiosyl) esters regardless of whether trans and cis isomers were considered. Under all tested conditions both parabens gave good results, especially propyl paraben that showed a greater influence