Antioxidant Activity and Volatile and Phenolic Profiles of Essential Oil and Different Extracts of Wild Mint (Mentha longifolia) from the Pakistani Flora

Table 3

Antioxidant activity of M. longifolia essential oil and n-hexane, dichloromethane, and methanol extracts.

Samples	Antioxidant activity*
	DPPH, IC50,; (µg mL^−1)	Inhibition of linoleic; acid peroxidation (%)
Essential oil	21.8 ± 1.2^c	37.3 ± 1.3^c
n-Hexane extract	33.3 ± 1.7^d	9.9 ± 0.7^a
DCM extract	21.2 ± 1.7^c	89.3 ± 2.9^d
Methanol extract	6.70 ± 0.3^a	91.6 ± 2.3^d
Piperitenone	22.7 ± 1.5^c	31.3 ± 2.1^b
BHT	9.90 ± 0.2^b	90.9 ± 2.7^d

*Values are mean ± standard deviation of three samples of each Thymus species, analyzed individually in triplicate. Mean followed by different superscript letters in the same column represents significant difference (𝑃<0.05).
NT: not tested.