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Table 1. Antioxidant activity (DPPH and ABTS methods, expressed as TE, and TPC expressed as GAE) of Mentha x rotundifolia MR16 extracts obtained by UAE, MAE, and SWE at 50ºC for 5 min

Technique	TPC (GAE, mg mL^–1)	ABTS (TE, mg mL^–1)	DPPH (TE, mg mL^–1)
UAE bath	5.7 (0.1)*^,^a	3.3 (0.2)^a^,^b	4.4 (0.5)^c
UAE 12 mm probe	3.38 (0.06)^c	2.4 (0.5)^b	5.0 (0.9)^c
UAE 3 mm probe	1.85 (0.04)^d	1.7 (0.2)^b	2.6 (0.8)^d
MAE	3.03 (0.06)^c	4.3 (0.5)^a	9.9 (0.9)^b
SWE	4.5 (0.2)^b	4.3 (0.1)^a	11.2 (0.5)^a

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Mean value and standard deviation in parentheses (n = 3); ^a,b,c,d different letters in the same column indicate significant (P < 0.05) differences among the techniques evaluated

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Acknowledgments

Authors thank Dr. Julia Navarro Rocha for providing the M. rotundifolia samples under study, Dr. Mar Villamiel for her assistance on the use of UAE facilities, and Drashti Mansukhani for her technical support on SWE experiments.

Author contributions

MJGS and PGI: Methodology, Formal analysis. ACS: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing—review & editing, Funding acquisition. MLS: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing—original draft.

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This work is part of the I+D+I projects, funded by the Fundación Ramón Areces [CIVP17A2843]; Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2019-106405GB-I00/MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]; the Comunidad of Madrid and European from FSE and FEDER programs [S2018/BAA-4393, AVANSECAL-II-CM]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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