Antioxidant Activity and Phenolic Content of Paederia foetida and Syzygium aqueum
Open Access
- 3 March 2009
- Vol. 14 (3), 970-978
- https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules14030970
Abstract
The antioxidant activity of fresh and dried plant extracts of Paederia foetida and Syzygium aqueum were studied using β-carotene bleaching and the 2,2’-azinobis(3-ethyl-benzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) radical cation assay. The percentage of antioxidant activity for all extract samples using both assays was between 58 and 80%. The fresh samples of both plants had higher antioxidant activity than the dried samples. The results of the β-carotene bleaching assay were correlated (R2 = 0.9849) with those of the ABTS assay.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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