Table 3.

Anthocyanidins (%) in saffron tepals extracted by SW and AE methods (n = 2)

Extracting solvent	Pelargonidin 3 glycosides	Pelargonidin 3,5 glycosides	Petunidin	3,5 cyanidin-diglycosides	Delphinidin 3 glycosides
AE method	3.3 ± 0.3a	58.1 ± 2.9a	16.5 ± 0.8a	17.9 ± 1.1a	4.2 ± 0.6a
SW method	4.1 ± 0.2a	29.5 ± 1.6b	16.7 ± 0.9a	41.8 ± 2.2b	7.9 ± 1.7b

The numbers in this table are averaged of two replicates and values with different superscripts in each column are significantly (α = 0.05) different