Evaluating the Effect of Gamma Radiation on the Total Phenolic Content, Flavonoids, and Antioxidant Activity of Dried Pleurotus ostreatus ((Jacq. ex. Fr) Kummer) Stored in Packaging Materials

Table 2

Flavonoid content (mgQE/g) of dried and irradiated mushrooms of polythene (P) and polypropylene (Bx) packs from 3 extracts.

Treatments	Extracts
	Aqueous (mgQE/g)	Ethanol (mgQE/g)	Methanol (mgQE/g)
P 0	7.67 ± 0.8^a	4.25 ± 0.2^ab	3.93 ± 0.2^a
P 0.5	8.92 ± 0.6^a	7.27 ± 0.4^b	3.81 ± 0.2^a
P 1	8.07 ± 0.7^a	5.58 ± 0.2^b	4.61 ± 0.4^a
P 1.5	3.7 ± 0.2^ab	1.64 ± 0.05^a	3.51 ± 0.2^a
P 2	6.73 ± 0.5^a	7.88 ± 0.4^c	2.88 ± 0.1^a
Bx 0	3.09 ± 0.2^ab	4.73 ± 0.2^ab	4.18 ± 0.2^a
Bx 0.5	8.75 ± 0.8^a	7.86 ± 0.4^b	5.37 ± 0.5^a
Bx 1	7.92 ± 0.6^a	4.42 ± 0.2^ab	2.50 ± 0.2^a
Bx 1.5	7.92 ± 0.6^a	6.29 ± 0.4^b	2.0 ± 0.1^a
Bx 2	3.46 ± 0.3^ab	5.88 ± 0.3^b	4.9 ± 0.4^a

Means with same letters in a column are not significantly different ().