The aim of this study was to elucidate the correlation between total lavonoid content and total phenolic content on antioxidants activity of ethanol extracts from three cultivars of papaya leaves: 'Holland,' 'Khak Dam' and 'Red Lady.' All crude extracts were investigated to ind antioxidant capacity in DPPH radical scavenging. The result indicated that the ethanol extract of 'Red Lady' papaya leaves exhibited the highest level of DPPH radical scavenging activity with the IC 50 of 0.18 mg/mL, followed by the 'Khak Dam' and 'Holland' papaya leaves having an IC 50 value of 0.24 and 0.44 mg/mL, respectively. The ethanol extract from 'Red Lady' papaya leaves showed the highest level of total lavonoid content (TFC) of 276.72 ± 1.04 µgQE/g DW and total phenolic content (TPC) of 169.85 ± 6.54 mgGAE/g DW. All three cultivars showed a distinctive correlation between IC 50 and the content of both total lavonoid and total phenolic with a negative relationship of Pearson's correlation of -0.922 and -0.940, respectively.
The objective of this study was to compare antioxidant activity from crudes of fruits, leaves, twigs and flowers of Mesua ferrea L. with hexane, dichloromethane and methanol by controlling time and temperature in the solvent extraction. All crude extracts were investigated for their antioxidant capacity in 1,1-diphenenyl-2-picryhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging. The results indicated that the high polar solvent exhibited the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity. The methanol extracts of leaves show the highest activity with IC50 of 89.94±0.65 μg/mL. The flowers, twigs and fruits methanol crude extracts show IC50 of 94.26±5.93, 94.45±1.67 and 722.94±5.85 μg/mL, respectively. The methanol extracts of leaves also had the highest total flavonoids content (325.79±3.08mgQE/g). The methanol extract of flowers and the dichloromethane extract of fruits presented higher total phenolic contents than the other extracts which contained 769.11±46.64 mgGAE/g and 703.62±12.62 mgGAE/g, respectively, followed by the methanol extract of leaves (348.36±38.53 mgGAE/g).
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