Table 4.

CUPRAC of selected culinary-medicinal mushrooms.

Mushroom species	Absorbance values (at 450 nm) of mushroom extracts of different concentrations (mg/mL)
	0.10	0.50	1.00	5.00	10.00
Agrocybe sp.	0.105 ± 0.022a,b	0.396 ± 0.039a	0.469 ± 0.095b,c	2.318 ± 0.047e	2.778 ± 0.015g
Auricularia auricular-judae	0.242 ± 0.040d	0.227 ± 0.022a	1.105 ± 0.044e	1.401 ± 0.312b,c	1.739 ± 0.222a
Flammulina velutipes	0.063 ± 0.024a	0.137 ± 0.015a	0.318 ± 0.019a,b	1.173 ± 0.034a,b	1.958 ± 0.037b
Ganoderma lucidum	0.519 ± 0.020e	1.058 ± 0.103b	1.740 ± 0.181f	2.802 ± 0.046f	2.959 ± 0.000h
Hericium erinaceus	0.173 ± 0.050b,c,d	0.253 ± 0.050a	0.548 ± 0.056c	1.422 ± 0.065b,c	2.442 ± 0.120d,e
Lentinula edodes	0.155 ± 0.046b,c	0.249 ± 0.038a	0.561 ± 0.023c	1.686 ± 0.044c,d	2.578 ± 0.018e,f
Pleurotus cystidiosus	0.185 ± 0.083c,d	0.150 ± 0.029a	0.487 ± 0.045b,c	1.435 ± 0.187b,c	2.144 ± 0.132c
Pleurotus eryngii	0.125 ± 0.017a,b,c	0.275 ± 0.013a	0.458 ± 0.056b,c	1.967 ± 0.034d,e	2.657 ± 0.074f,g
Pleurotus flabellatus	0.146 ± 0.015b,c	0.328 ± 0.021a	0.530 ± 0.060c	1.574 ± 0.082c	2.467 ± 0.071d,e
Pleurotus florida	0.070 ± 0.027a	0.165 ± 0.012a	0.390 ± 0.072a,b,c	1.395 ± 0.129b,c	2.345 ± 0.056d
Pleurotus sajor-caju	0.183 ± 0.026c,d	0.208 ± 0.031a	0.444 ± 0.041b,c	1.520 ± 0.029b,c	2.427 ± 0.018d,e
Schizophyllum commune	0.114 ± 0.009a,b,c	0.244 ± 0.046a	0.832 ± 0.214d	1.476 ± 0.061b,c	2.060 ± 0.031b,c
Termitomyces heimii	0.127 ± 0.014a,b,c	0.184 ± 0.013a	0.250 ± 0.048a	0.819 ± 0.456a	2.378 ± 0.066d
Volvariella volvaceae	0.165 ± 0.031b,c	0.303 ± 0.041a	0.831 ± 0.078d	2.028 ± 0.212d,e	2.788 ± 0.015g,h
Positive controls*
Quercetin			2.110 ± 0.227d
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)			1.958 ± 0.470c,d
Ascorbic acid			1.791 ± 0.220c

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

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

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