Table 1.

Pearson correlation coefficients between the phytopigments, TPC, and antioxidant activity of avocado extracts.

	TPC (mg Gallic Acid Equivalent/g of Sample Dry Weight (mg GAE/g DW))	Total Carotenoids (μg/g DW)	Total Chlorophylls (μg/g DW)
2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH; mg Trolox equivalent (TE)/g DW)	0.99308	−0.98586	0.44616
p-value (2-tailed)	0.00000	0.00000	0.22868
2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS; mg TE/g DW)	0.66928	−0.62861	0.96595
p-value (2-tailed)	0.04865	0.06979	0.00002
Ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP; mg TE/g DW)	−0.77974	0.78034	0.14305
p-value (2-tailed)	0.01321	0.01309	0.71350

Note: correlations in bold are significant at the 5% level (2-tailed).