Research Article
Antioxidant and Antibacterial Assays on Polygonum minus Extracts: Different Extraction Methods
Table 1
Antioxidant activity in P. minus extracts.
| | Extract | Part | Phenolic content (mg GAE/100 g) | FRAP value (µmol Fe (II)/g) | DPPH inhibition (%) |
| | Distilled water | Leaf | 472.2 ± 75.4 | 491.5 ± 61.6 | 59.8 ± 3.1 | | Whole | 482.2 ± 14.1 | 479.6 ± 58.2 | 50.3 ± 5.9 |
| | Methanol | Leaf | 645.6 ± 166.7 | 633.3 ± 13.4 | 90.4 ± 0.4 | | Whole | 626.1 ± 22.2 | 591.4 ± 13.0 | 86.6 ± 2.5 |
| | -Hexane | Leaf | 48.7 ± 1.8 | 235.9 ± 17.1 | 1.3 ± 0.8 | | Whole | 51.9 ± 2.2 | 249.8 ± 3.5 | 7.7 ± 1.2 |
| | SFE | Leaf1 | 39.9 ± 1.1 | 265.9 ± 7.3 | 5.3 ± 1.7 | | Whole1 | 40.1 ± 1.8 | 256.5 ± 2.2 | 14.3 ± 1.6 |
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