Table 1.
Chemical Data Obtained by Spectrophotometry | |||||||||
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Countries | Spain | Chile | |||||||
Regions/n° of Samples | Galicia/14 | Castilla y León/33 | Bio-Bio/52 | ||||||
Constituents | Min–Max | Mean | SD | Min–Max | Mean | SD | Min–Max | Mean | SD |
Total flavones + flavonols (mg quercetin/g propolis) | 28.2–149.6 | 61.5 | 36.3 | 19.9–190.3 | 88.5 | 38.9 | 0–161.1 | 57.3 | 35.6 |
Total flavones + flavonols (mg rutin/g propolis) | 10.4–58.7 | 25.8 | 13.7 | 10.1–74.3 | 35.9 | 14.6 | 0–63.3 | 24.1 | 13.6 |
Total flavanones + dihydroflavonols (mg pinocembrin/g propolisextract) | 31.8–73.9 | 49.4 | 9.6 | 31.7–81.6 | 56.7 | 15.3 | 27.0–149.7 | 75.8 | 34.3 |
ABTS (nmolTrolox/mg propolis) | 1552.1–2012.6 | 1777.1 | 195.1 | 1197.7–2649.3 | 1907.7 | 384.2 | 641.2–8215.4 | 3863.5 | 1911.2 |
Linoleic acid/β-carotene (% inhibition) | 72.7–83.3 | 78.0 | 3.7 | 21.6–82.2 | 56.5 | 21.1 | 54.7–88.1 | 70.0 | 7.1 |