Research Article

Phenolic Composition and Antioxidant and Antiproliferative Activities of the Extracts of Twelve Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Endemic Ecotypes of Southern Italy before and after Cooking

Table 2

Total polyphenols (PT), antioxidant activity, flavonoids (FT), and anthocyanin contents in the bean extracts. The concentration of total polyphenols was expressed as µg equivalents of gallic acid/g of DW sample; antioxidant activity was expressed as EC50 (mg/mL DPPH); flavonoids were expressed as µg equivalents of quercetin/g of DW sample; the content of anthocyanin content was expressed as µg equivalents of cyanidin-3-glucoside/g of DW sample. Data are the mean values of three independent experiments (±standard deviation).

Polyphenol 
content 
(µg GAE/gr (DW))
Antioxidant 
activity 
(mg × mL di DPPH)
Flavonoids 
content 
(µg (QE)/gr (DW))
Anthocyanin 
content 
(µg (C3GE)/gr (DW))

(BA)
(DM)
(V)
(BA-c)
(DM-c)
(V-c)

(CR)
(OR)
(Z)
(CR-c)
(OR-c)
(Z-c)

(P)
(S)
(Si)
(P-c)
(S-c)
(Si-c)

(NA)
(NF)
(NC)
(NA-c)
(NF-c)
(NC-c)