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. 2020 Dec 9;15(12):e0243364. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243364

Table 1. Naturally occurring concentrations of quercetin and p-coumaric acid in bee products1.

mean concentration (μM)2 Max3 (μM) Ref.
Min Average Max
Quercetin royal jelly 0.7 [28]
Honey 0.0 26.0 228.3 n/a [9,2844]
Pollen 5.8 1 190.8 3 250.0 n/a [4551]
Propolis 0.0 4 227.5 27 193.6 54 648.74 [28,5261]
p-coumaric acid Honey 0.0 42.5 1 914.1 n/a [2931,35,36,4143,6264]
Pollen 4.9 680.8 2 499.3 n/a [45,46,50,51,65]
Propolis 0.0 14 413.9 69 492.2 82 293.35 [52,53,55,5759,6675]

1 Upper and lower limits of each group of bee products overlap each other. Phytochemical concentrations varied according to botanical origin (S1 Table) and geographic source (S2 Table).

2 The data, originally reported as a mean value in the cited paper, reported here.

3 This column shows the maximum value of the concentration of the phytochemical reported in the cited paper as a range. Studies in which values were reported as lower than the maximum mean concentration (sleft-hand column) were entered here as “n/a”.

4 Aliyazıcıoglu et al. [52] show this maximum value of quercetin in propolis.

5 Bertelli et al. [53] show this maximum value of p-coumaric acid in propolis.