Experimental evaluation of the antioxidant and antitumor activities of thyme and basil essential oils and their phenolic constituents: theoretical antioxidant evaluation

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 3 Reducing power of thyme oil, basil oil, thymol, Carvacrol, linalool, Eugenol, vit E and vit C

Conc (µg/mL)	Thyme oil	Basil oil	Thymol	Carvacrol	Linalool	Eugenol	Vit E	Vit C
12.5	0.13^e ± 0.005	0.176^e ± 0.003	0.044^e ± 0.003	0.025^e ± 0.009	0.0^e	1.23^e ± 0.287	0.59^e ± 0.028	0.718^e ± 0.017
25.5	0.22^d ± 0.002	0.336^d ± 0.005	0.102^d ± 0.005	0.07^d ± 0.014	0.004^d ± 0.001	1.4^d ± 0.262	1.131^d ± 0.024	0.91^d ± 0.056
37.5	0.31^c ± 0.002	0.476^c ± 0.005	0.144^c ± 0.009	0.118^c ± 0.079	0.009^c ± 0.0009	1.57^c ± 0.243	1.67^c ± 0.007	1.103^c ± 0.001
50.0	0.4^b ± 0.002	0.63^b ± 0.011	0.188^b ± 0.011	0.164^b ± 0.015	0.014^b ± 0.005	1.74^b ± 0.207	2.2^b ± 0.005	1.295^b ± 0.06
62.5	0.49^a ± 0.002	0.77^a ± 0.002	0.23^a ± 0.068	0.210^a ± 0.026	0.02^a ± 0.009	1.911^a ± 0.200	–	1.49^a ± 0.065

Data are means ± SD of three Absorbance (A) determinations. Values with different letter in each column are significantly different (p ≤ 0.05)