Table 3.
Radical scavenging capacities of pink and black peppers.
| Region | DPPH (mg VCE/100 g) |
ABTS (mg VCE/100 g) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink | Brazil | 4015.32 ± 13.00 a | 2741.25 ± 19.69 a |
| India | 4081.92 ± 34.39 a | 2845.12 ± 3.91 a | |
| Sri Lanka | 2812.30 ± 10.81 b | 1956.96 ± 54.26 b | |
| Black | Vietnam | 271.45 ± 12.01 | 861.92 ± 83.23 |
(1) Values are the average of experiments (n = 3) and represented as mean ± standard deviation. VCE, vitamin C equivalents; DPPH, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl; ABTS, 3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid; different letters (a–d) in a column indicate values that are significantly different at p < 0.05.