Evaluation of Selected Culinary-Medicinal Mushrooms for Antioxidant and ACE Inhibitory Activities
Table 3
Reducing power of selected culinary-medicinal mushrooms.
Mushroom species
Absorbance values (at 700 nm) of mushroom extracts of different concentrations (mg/mL)
0.05
0.10
0.50
1.00
Agrocybe sp.
Auricularia auricular-judae
Flammulina velutipes
Ganoderma lucidum
Hericium erinaceus
Lentinula edodes
Pleurotus cystidiosus
Pleurotus eryngii
Pleurotus flabellatus
Pleurotus florida
Pleurotus sajor-caju
Schizophyllum commune
Termitomyces heimii
Volvariella volvaceae
Positive controls*
Quercetin
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)
Ascorbic acid
Values were expressed as mean ± standard deviation of three replicate determinations. Mean values in a column with different lower case letters (a–g) indicate significant difference at .
*Absorbance values for positive controls were measured at the concentration of 0.50 mg/mL.