Research Article

Essential Oils Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Three Thymus Species

Table 4

Amount of total phenolics and flavonoids in the methanol extracts of Thymus species .

SamplePhenolic content Flavonoid content

T. kotschyanus polar sub-fraction117 ± 0.936.7 ± 0.7
T. kotschyanus non-polar sub-fraction41.1 ± 0.38.7 ± 0.2
T. daenensis subsp lancifolius polar sub-fraction147.2 ± 1.248.8 ± 0.7
T. daenensis subsp lancifolius non-polar sub-fraction32.8 ± 0.316.4 ± 0.5
T. eriocalyx polar sub-fraction244.8 ± 2.225.5 ± 0.4
T. eriocalyx non-polar sub-fraction62.5 ± 0.613.2 ± 0.3

are means of three different experiments.
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