Table 3.
Total Phenolic Content (TPC) and Total Flavonoid Content (TFC) of the solvent extract from L. shawii leaves.
| Assay | Solvent extract |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqueous | Methanol | Ethanol | Ethyl acetate | ||
| TFC (mg QE/g extract)I | 95.93 ± 0.64a | 90.57 ± 0.31b | 41.47 ± 0.51c | 52.43 ± 0.98d | < 0.001* |
| TPC (mg GAE/g extract)II | 55.50 ± 1.18a | 230.50 ± 0.50b | 99.93 ± 0.83c | 190.60 ± 0.40d | < 0.001* |
Different superscript letters in the same row indicate significant difference (P ≤ 0.05); IQE, Quercetin Equivalent; IIGAE, Gallic Acid Equivalent.