Antioxidant, Antibacterial, and Anticancer Activities of Bitter Gourd Fruit Extracts at Three Different Cultivation Stages

Table 1

Extract yield and total PC of different percent methanol extract of BG fruit at different growth stages.

Methanol (%)	Immature fruit		Mature fruit		Ripen fruit
	%yield	%TPC	%yield	%TPC	%yield	%TPC
100	9.81 ± 0.78^a	4.33 ± 0.24^a	9.83 ± 0.43^a	8.17 ± 0.13^a	7.17 ± 0.53^a	5.09 ± 0.10^a
80	14.06 ± 0.65^b	2.18 ± 0.12^b	12.66 ± 0.98^b	7.46 ± 0.18^b	9.46 ± 0.77^b	4.11 ± 0.09^b
60	15.98 ± 1.15^c	1.91 ± 0.11^c	15.23 ± 1.25^c	5.36 ± 0.12^c	13.62 ± 0.89^c	3.69 ± 0.15^c

Values with the same letters in superscript do not differ significantly; values are significant at level .