Interaction of Some Commercial Teas with Some Carbohydrate Metabolizing Enzymes Linked with Type-2 Diabetes: A Dietary Intervention in the Prevention of Type-2 Diabetes

Table 1

2,2-Azizobis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline~6-sulfonate) “ABTS” scavenging ability and ferric reducing antioxidant property of some commercial teas.

Sample	ABTS (mmol·TEAC/100 g)	FRAP (AAE mg/g)
GT	5.54 ± 1.21^a	15.98 ± 2.31^a
BT1	1.80 ± 1.54^b	12.01 ± 1.87^b
BT2	2.80 ± 0.96^b	9.26 ± 1.32^d
ADT	4.70 ± 1.08^a	10.12 ± 1.91^c

GT: green tea; BT: black tea; ADT: antidiabetes tea. Values represent means of triplicate of duplicate experiments. Values with the same letter along the same column are not significantly different (𝑃>0.05).