Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oil from Lavandula sublepidota.

A qualitative analysis of these polyphenolic compounds in lavender extracts showed that rosmarinic acid, which is known for its antiviral, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immune stimulating effect [[9]], is the most abundant phenolic constituent. The most prominent EO constituents of I L. angustifolia i , I L. latifolia i , and I L. hybrida i , a species commonly used by the perfume and pharmaceutical industries, were linalyl acetate and linalool [[11]]. Ten polyphenols (among 11 studied polyphenol compounds) were detected in I L. sublepidota i , whereby the most compounds were sinapic acid, I trans i -ferulic acid and rosmarinic acid. The antioxidant activity of five samples of I Lavandulae flowers i ( I L. angustifolia i ssp. I angustifolia i , I L. hybrida i , I L. angustifolia i spp. I pyrenaica i , I L. angustifolia i spp. I angustifolia i cv. [Extracted from the article]