Table 4.
Total Phenolic, Flavonoid Content and antioxidant activity (DPPH, FRAP) in different extracts of W. unigemmata.
| Plant extracts |
Phytochemicals |
Antioxidant activity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPC (mg GAE gm−1 dry extract) | TFC (mg QE gm−1 dry extract) | FRAP values (mg AAE gm−1 dry extract) | DPPH assay (IC50 value, µg/ml) | |
| Aqueous extract | 363 ± 7.27 | 146 ± 7.84 | 605 ± 7.08 | 50.68 ± 2.5 |
| Methanol extract | 873 ± 6.01 | 151 ± 11.24 | 768 ± 10.4 | 6.07 ± 1.4 |
| Hexane extract | 31.67 ± 10.94 | 43.89 ± 1.47 | 85 ± 5.13 | 87.27 ± 7.3 |
| *Corr. with TPC | – | – | 0.915 | −0.998 |
| *Corr. with TFC | – | – | 0.982 | −0.858 |
Values are mean ± SE of three replicate, TPC- Total Phenolic Content: TFC- Total Flavonoid Content; GAE- Gallic Acid Equivalent; QE- Quercetin Equivalent; AAE- Ascorbic acid Equivalent; *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level