Table 1.

Total phenolic content of culinary-medicinal mushrooms studied.

Mushroom species		Total phenolic content
Scientific name	Common name(s)	(mg GAE/g extract)
Agrocybe sp.	Black poplar mushroom; yangimatusutake (Japanese)	25.40 ± 1.52g
Auricularia auricular-judae	Jelly mushroom; Judas's ear fungus; kikurage “tree-jelly fish” (Japanese); mù ěr “wood ear” (Chinese)	6.19 ± 0.87a
Flammulina velutipes	Golden needle mushroom; enokitake (Japanese); $j\bar{\iota }nzh\bar{e}ng$ ū http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%91 (Chinese)	16.69 ± 2.62d,e
Ganoderma lucidum	Reishi (Japanese); l $\bar{\iota }$ ngzhī (Chinese)	63.51 ± 3.11h
Hericium erinaceus	Lion's mane mushroom; yamabushitake “mountain-hidden mushroom” (Japanese); hóutóugū “monkey head mushroom” (Chinese)	10.20 ± 2.25a,b
Lentinula edodes	Forest mushroom, shiitake “shii mushrooms” (Japanese); xiānggū “fragrant mushroom” (Chinese)	14.70 ± 3.01c,d
Pleurotus cystidiosus	Abalone oyster; summer oyster mushroom	9.26 ± 0.77a,b
Pleurotus eryngii	King oyster; king trumpet mushroom; French horn mushroom; eringi (Japanese); xìngbàogū “almond abalone mushroom” (Chinese)	20.95 ± 2.39f
Pleurotus flabellatus	Pink oyster mushroom	20.24 ± 0.68e,f
Pleurotus florida	White oyster mushroom	12.24 ± 1.17b,c
Pleurotus sajor-caju	Grey oyster mushroom	17.70 ± 2.12d,e,f
Schizophyllum commune	Bracket fungus; spilt-gill fungus; liezhejun (Chinese)	16.47 ± 0.42d,e
Termitomyces heimii	“Termite nest fungus”	11.31 ± 0.42b,c
Volvariella volvaceae	Paddy straw mushroom; fukurotake (Japanese); cǎogū (Chinese)	20.88 ± 3.13f
Positive controls
Quercetin		194.24 ± 7.58i
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)		931.86 ± 49.78k
Ascorbic acid*		25.40 ± 1.39g

Values were expressed as mean ± standard deviation of three replicate determinations.

Mean values in a column with different lowercase letters (a–k) indicate significant difference at P < .05.

*The value is an estimation of total reducing capacity of ascorbic acid instead of its phenolic content.