Research Article

Chemical, Bioactive, and Antioxidant Potential of Twenty Wild Culinary Mushroom Species

Table 8

EC50 values for different antioxidant assays on twenty wild culinary species collected from northern Himalayas.

SpeciesDPPH radical scavenging activity (mg/mL)ABTS (mg/mL)Reducing power (mg/mL)Fe2+ chelating activity (mg/mL)Scavenging on superoxide anion radical (mg/mL)FRAP (mol Fe2+ equivalents/g DW)

Agaricus arvensis 2.12 ± 0.43.19 ± 0.32.27 ± 0.3 1.14 ± 0.31.34 ± 0.11.74 ± 0.1
A. campestris 3.28 ± 0.53.10 ± 0.43.12 ± 0.5 2.02 ± 0.21.41 ± 0.51.56 ± 0.3
A. comtulus 3.14 ± 0.23.27 ± 0.33.11 ± 0.6 1.92 ± 0.12.04 ± 0.51.44 ± 0.1
A. silvicola 3.08 ± 0.33.35 ± 0.53.95 ± 0.2 1.84 ± 0.22.09 ± 0.4 1.41 ± 0.0
Amanita caesarea 2.02 ± 0.21.45 ± 0.62.44 ± 0.1 1.40 ± 0.40.44 ± 0.31.86 ± 0.1
A. citrina 3.21 ± 0.43.19 ± 0.42.57 ± 0.72.24 ± 0.31.11 ± 0.21.50 ± 0.0
A. fulva 3.29 ± 0.33.25 ± 0.32.78 ± 0.2 1.92 ± 0.51.10 ± 0.3 1.46 ± 0.2
Cantharellus cibarius 1.76 ± 0.21.59 ± 0.41.62 ± 0.5 1.27 ± 0.20.39 ± 0.4 1.85 ± 0.3
Conocybe tenera 5.13 ± 0.23.21 ± 0.65.12 ± 0.3 1.74 ± 0.51.09 ± 0.2 1.56 ± 0.0
Gymnopilus junonius 2.58 ± 0.22.84 ± 0.41.95 ± 0.22.21 ± 0.31.27 ± 0.6 0.78 ± 0.0
Hygrocybe coccinea 3.82 ± 0.23.29 ± 0.53.12 ± 0.81.35 ± 0.21.98 ± 0.2 1.11 ± 0.0
H. nivea 3.64 ± 0.34.26 ± 0.53.11 ± 0.2 1.45 ± 0.61.94 ± 0.1 1.13 ± 0.0
Inocybe splendens 4.12 ± 0.33.15 ± 0.65.19 ± 0.1 1.76 ± 0.41.99 ± 0.7 1.24 ± 0.0
Lactarius pubescens 2.87 ± 0.23.39 ± 0.44.87 ± 0.31.87 ± 0.22.21 ± 0.6 1.62 ± 0.4
Laccaria laccata 3.19 ± 0.43.23 ± 0.34.12 ± 0.21.94 ± 0.61.91 ± 0.2 1.56 ± 0.0
Lepista nuda 3.71 ± 0.33.26 ± 0.44.21 ± 0.3 2.04 ± 0.51.84 ± 0.1 1.36 ± 0.0
Lentinus cladopus 2.15 ± 0.52.29 ± 0.92.86 ± 0.2 2.19 ± 0.11.10 ± 0.2 1.66 ± 0.0
Pleurotus cystidiosus 2.17 ± 0.62.95 ± 0.22.57 ± 0.1 2.11 ± 0.31.04 ± 0.1 1.58 ± 0.3
Russula lepida 3.10 ± 0.23.21 ± 0.14.10 ± 0.3 2.84 ± 0.21.23 ± 0.21.19 ± 0.0
R. mairei 3.17 ± 0.33.11 ± 0.15.16 ± 0.22.95 ± 0.31.14 ± 0.1 2.16 ± 0.0

Values are expressed as mean ± SE.