Antioxidant and antiproliferative activity of blue corn and tortilla from native maize

BMC Chemistry

Table 1 Total polyphenol content, monomeric anthocyanins and antioxidant activity by DPPH and TBARS methods of blue corn and tortilla

Sample¹	Total polyphenols (mg EAG/100 g)	Monomeric anthocyanins (mg C3G/100 g)	Percent polymeric color	DPPH (μM ET/g)	TBARS IC50 value (μg/mL)
Blue corn	287.3 ± 0.03^a	70.50 ± 1.3^a	54.0 ± 2.06^a	49.2 ± 0.18^a	792 ± 64.4^a
Blue tortilla	70.3 ± 0.03^b	27.8 ± 1.8^b	66.1 ± 0.31^b	45.1 ± 0.22^a	750 ± 5.61^a

GAE gallic acid equivalentes, ET trolox equivalente, C3G cyanidin 3-glucoside
¹The results are expressed as mean ± SD. Different letters indicate that there are significant differences (p ≤ 0.05)

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