Table 1. Naturally occurring concentrations of quercetin and p-coumaric acid in bee products1.
mean concentration (μM)2 | Max3 (μM) | Ref. | ||||
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Min | Average | Max | ||||
Quercetin | royal jelly | 0.7 | [28] | |||
Honey | 0.0 | 26.0 | 228.3 | n/a | [9,28–44] | |
Pollen | 5.8 | 1 190.8 | 3 250.0 | n/a | [45–51] | |
Propolis | 0.0 | 4 227.5 | 27 193.6 | 54 648.74 | [28,52–61] | |
p-coumaric acid | Honey | 0.0 | 42.5 | 1 914.1 | n/a | [29–31,35,36,41–43,62–64] |
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 | [52,53,55,57–59,66–75] |
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.