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Radical scavenging capacity of Agrimonia eupatoria and Agrimonia procera

2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 78; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.fitote.2006.10.002

1873-6971

Petras Rimantas Venskutonis, M. Škėmaitė, Ona Ragažinskienė,

Food Quality and Safety Studies

The antioxidant activity of Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony) and Agrimonia procera (Fragrant agrimony) extracts was assessed by measuring in DPPH radical scavenging and ABTS+ radical decolourisation reaction systems. Radical scavenging capacity of agrimony extracts varied in a wide range (9.1−97.5% in DPPH reaction and 6.7−79.5% in ABTS reaction) depending on the polarity of the solvent used to obtain the extract.