Investigation of antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Euclea schimperi leaf extracts

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 2 Total phenolic content (TPC) expressed as mg GAE/100 g dry extract and total flavonoids content expressed as mg QE/100 g dry extract of different solvent extracts of Euclea schimperi leaves

Type of extract	Total phenolics in mg GAE/100 g dry ext.	Total flavonoids mg QE/100 g dry ext.	Antioxidant activity a FRAP (mg AAE/100 g dry extract)	Antioxidant activity a DPPH (mgAAE/100 g dry ext.
Methanol extract	748.78 ± 3.11^a	3.306 ± 0.142^a	312.145 ± 1.542^a	19.707 ± 0.186^a
Chloroform extract	40.45 ± 0.66^b	0.334 ± 0.002^b	48.177 ± 0.286^b	2.717 ± 0.030^b

Sample for three independent measurements (triplicate; n = 3, mean ± SD). Values in the same column that are followed by a different letters (a, b) are significantly different p < 0.05 by paired t test