Research Article

Antioxidative and Antimelanoma Effects of Various Tea Extracts via a Green Extraction Method

Table 2

Five different concentrations with chelating activity of five tea extracts.

Chelating activity (%)
Extracts (µg/ml) 151050100

Maltodextrin≤5.00≤5.0059 ± 0.0176 ± 0.0179 ± 0.00

Green tea extract≤10≤10≤10≤1014 ± 1.0
Black tea extract≤10≤1020 ± 0.0319 ± 0.0125 ± 3.0
Oolong tea extract 861≤10≤10≤1019 ± 0.0130 ± 2.0
Oolong tea extract 732≤10≤10≤10≤1027 ± 1.0
Jasmine green tea extract≤10≤1018 ± 0.03≤10≤10

EDTA80.76 ± 0.01

Sample consists of 33% maltodextrin. EDTA was used as a positive control on metal chelating ability at 100 μM.