Table 2.

Radical scavenging activity of heat-killed culture samples

Isolated from	Samples	DPPH radical scavenging (%)	ABTS radical scavenging (%)
Breast milk	L. reuteri MG505	40.9 ± 9.2	60.9 ± 2.8
Infant feces	Bi. longum MG723	51.9 ± 3.7	75.2 ± 0.5
	Bi. breve MG729	50.2 ± 1.7	76.6 ± 0.1
	Bi. bifidum MG731	90.6 ± 2.3	96.1 ± 0.4
	Bi. lactis MG741	59.6 ± 2.1	99.5 ± 0.7
Human	L. gasseri MG4247	31.7 ± 2.9	62.2 ± 0.3
Human vagina	L. salivarius MG242	56.9 ± 6.0	97.1 ± 0.4
	L. fermentum MG901	22.4 ± 5.6	48.0 ± 1.8
	L. plantarum MG989	59.4 ± 3.8	98.9 ± 0.5
Fermented food	L. paracasei MG310	19.5 ± 5.0	28.2 ± 0.9
	L. casei MG311	19.4 ± 11.5	29.3 ± 0.7
	L. rhamnosus MG316	42.5 ± 10.5	49.2 ± 0.6
	L. bulgaricus MG515	51.7 ± 2.8	76.1 ± 8.3
	L. helveticus MG585	45.3 ± 4.2	84.0 ± 0.6
	Lac. lactis MG5125	18.4 ± 1.8	47.8 ± 1.6
	S. thermophilus MG5140	17.8 ± 1.6	27.1 ± 0.4
	L. acidophilus MG5228	55.9 ± 4.0	87.4 ± 1.4
Mixture		44.1 ± 0.8	73.6 ± 0.3

DPPH, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl; ABTS, 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)