Clinical Phytoscience

International Journal of Phytomedicine and Phytotherapy

Table 5 Antioxidant activities of African wild lettuce leaf samples

From: Nutritional, antioxidant, angiotensin-converting-enzyme and carbohydrate-hydrolyzing-enzyme inhibitory activities of underutilized leafy vegetable: African wild lettuce (Lactuca taraxacifolia Willd)

Sample	WLF	WLE	WLR	WPI
Fe Chelation%	8.26 ± 0.09^c	34.43 ± 0.09^b	5.84 ± 0.09^c	36.64 ± 0.19^a
DPPH%	18.28 ± 0.04^d	70.85 ± 0.04^b	53.07 ± 0.04^c	91.88 ± 0.04^a
ABTS mg/g	205.36 ± 12.63^b	339.29 ± 25.21^a	169.64 ± 12.62^b	383.92 ± 12.62^a
FRAPS mg/g	47.46 ± 0.021^c	49.92 ± 0.04^b	44.17 ± 0.02^d	50.33 ± 0.02^a
OH %	74.00 ± 7.68^ab	60.00 ± 6.46^b	74.57 ± 7.67^ab	80.29 ± 2.82^a

^aWLF Wild lettuce powder, WLE Wild lettuce extracts, WLR Wild lettuce residue, WPI Wild lettuce protein isolate
^bMeans followed by different letters are significantly different (p < 0.05) according to Duncan post-hoc test; means of three replicates ± standard deviation

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