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Table 3.

Reducing power of selected culinary-medicinal mushrooms.

Mushroom species	Absorbance values (at 700 nm) of mushroom extracts of different concentrations (mg/mL)
Mushroom species	0.05	0.10	0.50	1.00
Agrocybe sp.	0.060 ± 0.013^c	0.054 ± 0.014^d,e	0.084 ± 0.007^a,b	0.193 ± 0.002^e
Auricularia auricular-judae	0.035 ± 0.010^a,b,c	0.032 ± 0.003^b,c,d,e	0.061 ± 0.005^a,b	0.110 ± 0.008^b,c
Flammulina velutipes	0.011 ± 0.007^a	0.011 ± 0.007^a	0.017 ± 0.006^a	0.056 ± 0.022^a
Ganoderma lucidum	0.029 ± 0.009^a,b,c	0.063 ± 0.000^e	0.270 ± 0.007^c	0.453 ± 0.046^f
Hericium erinaceus	0.017 ± 0.005^a,b,c	0.030 ± 0.022^b,c,d	0.023 ± 0.009^a	0.077 ± 0.019^a,b
Lentinula edodes	0.024 ± 0.050^a,b,c	0.017 ± 0.011^a,b,c	0.036 ± 0.003^a,b	0.073 ± 0.014^a,b
Pleurotus cystidiosus	0.021 ± 0.006^a,b,c	0.029 ± 0.010^b,c,d	0.040 ± 0.009^a,b	0.043 ± 0.009^a
Pleurotus eryngii	0.003 ± 0.013^a,b	0.012 ± 0.027^a,b	0.058 ± 0.003^a,b	0.165 ± 0.041^d,e
Pleurotus flabellatus	0.031 ± 0.013^a,b,c	0.044 ± 0.013^c,d,e	0.080 ± 0.018^a,b	0.151 ± 0.026^c,d,e
Pleurotus florida	0.035 ± 0.040^a,b,c	0.053 ± 0.009^d,e	0.070 ± 0.022^a,b	0.110 ± 0.007^b,c
Pleurotus sajor-caju	0.037 ± 0.044^b,c	0.034 ± 0.027^b,c,d,e	0.081 ± 0.026^a,b	0.144 ± 0.030^c,d
Schizophyllum commune	0.018 ± 0.002^c	0.021 ± 0.003^d,e	0.023 ± 0.004^a,b	0.490 ± 0.017^g
Termitomyces heimii	0.029 ± 0.010^a,b,c	0.047 ± 0.024^c,d,e	0.138 ± 0.038^b	0.193 ± 0.019^d,e
Volvariella volvaceae	0.043 ± 0.008^b,c	0.045 ± 0.016^c,d,e	0.117 ± 0.006^a,b	0.170 ± 0.003^d,e

Positive controls*

Quercetin		2.506 ± 0.054^e
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)		2.405 ± 0.033^d,e
Ascorbic acid		2.380 ± 0.197^d

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

Mean values in a column with different lower case letters (a–g) indicate significant difference at P < .05.

*Absorbance values for positive controls were measured at the concentration of 0.50 mg/mL.