Antioxidant Activities of Methanol Extracts of Thirteen Cameroonian Antibacterial Dietary Plants

Table 6

NO radical scavenging activities of the methanol extracts of thirteen antibacterial edible plants.

Plant extracts	Radical scavenging activities expressed as RSa50 (μg/ml)
Amaranthus hybridus	760.25 ± 65.02^f
Amaranthus cruentus	524.13 ± 37.30^e
Cucumis melo	58.38 ± 3.27^a
Lactuca capensis	74.58 ± 3.82^ab
Lactuca sativa	19.77 ± 1.80^a
Manihot esculenta	118.60 ± 6.60^abc
Piper nigrum	477.09 ± 19.32^e
Sechium edule	738.77 ± 35.49^f
Solanum nigrum	233.27 ± 7.26^d
Talinum triangulare	—
Telfairia occidentalis	53.05 ± 2.06^a
Vernonia hymenolepis	191.97 ± 20.85^cd
Vernonia amygdalina	66.86 ± 4.05^a
Rutin	157.72 ± 7.38^b

Note: “—”: >1024 μg/ml; RSa₅₀: concentration of tested sample necessary to decrease by 50% the free radical NO. Values bearing the different superscript letters are significantly different ().