Traditional Salads and Soups with Wild Plants as a Source of Antioxidants: A Comparative Chemical Analysis of Five Species Growing in Central Italy

Table 2

Summary table with all the results obtained from the DPPH, ABTS, and Folin-Ciocalteu assays on the extracts of the cooked plants.

Plant	Sample	DPPH IC50	ARA	ABTS TEAC	FOLIN GAE
		(mg/ml)	(ml/mg)	(mmol/kgfw)	(mg /gdw)
Hypochaeris radicata	BC1	2.48 ± 0.05	0.40 ± 0.01	1.79 ± 0.06	8.1 ± 0.3
	BC2	2.2 ± 0.2	0.45 ± 0.04	2.20 ± 0.07	11.8 ± 0.4
	BC3	2.0 ± 0.3	0.50 ± 0.08	3.2 ± 0.1	8.5 ± 0.5
	BC4	2.64 ± 0.01	0.38 ± 0.00	2.07 ± 0.06	9.2 ± 0.3
Cichorium intybus	CC1	2.70 ± 0.04	0.37 ± 0.01	2.68 ± 0.08	12.9 ± 0.5
	CC2	2.37 ± 0.06	0.42 ± 0.01	2.53 ± 0.08	9.7 ± 0.4
	CC3	3.1 ± 0.3	0.32 ± 0.03	2.05 ± 0.06	8.4 ± 0.3
	CC4	2.3 ± 0.1	0.43 ± 0.02	3.8 ± 0.1	12.2 ± 0.4
Helminthotheca echioides	EC1	3.0 ± 0.4	0.33 ± 0.04	3.5 ± 0.1	11.4 ± 0.4
	EC2	1.8 ± 0.1	0.56 ± 0.04	2.91 ± 0.09	13.2 ± 0.7
	EC3	2.5 ± 0.1	0.40 ± 0.02	2.95 ± 0.09	8.0 ± 0.3
	EC4	1.73 ± 0.07	0.58 ± 0.02	4.2 ± 0.1	12.8 ± 0.5