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Table 2 Antioxidant effects of the three Citrus aurantium essential oil samples

From: Variation of the essential oil components of Citrus aurantium leaves upon using different distillation techniques and evaluation of their antioxidant, antidiabetic, and neuroprotective effect against Alzheimer’s disease

Methods	DPPH (mg TE/g)	ABTS (mg TE/g)	CUPRAC (mg TE/g)	FRAP (mg TE/g)	PBD (mmol TE/g)	MCA (mg EDTAE/g)
HD	10.41 ± 1.27^c	11.05 ± 0.50^c	16.15 ± 0.32^c	29.43 ± 0.29^c	18.60 ± 0.04^c	20.44 ± 0.89^c
SD	51.67 ± 0.69^a	129.49 ± 0.29^a	138.69 ± 0.27^a	200.43 ± 2.88^a	24.03 ± 0.09^b	22.49 ± 0.80^b
MV	15.00 ± 0.42^b	35.75 ± 0.32^b	37.44 ± 1.05^b	57.21 ± 0.52^b	37.87 ± 0.06^a	32.14 ± 0.19^a

*Values are reported as mean ± SD of three parallel experiments. TE: Trolox equivalent; EDTAE: EDTA equivalent. Different letters (^a−c) indicate significant differences in the tested essential oils

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