eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-05-06 7 1 273 280 9518 article A . Jayachitra 1 P.R. Padma 2 Department of Biochemistry and Bio-technology, Sourashtra College, Madurai - 625 004 (India). 2Reader, Department of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore (India). Free radical scavenging assays were performed in both blue flowered leaf and white flowered leaf of Clitorea ternatea and analyse their ability to scavenge the oxidants like DPPH, SO·, NO, and OH· by using different solvents like petroleum ether, butanol, chloroform, ethanol and water. The ethanolic extracts offered the maximum scavenging in all the assays . The effects of white flowered leaves were more efficient than those of blue flowered leaves. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol7no1/radical-scavenging-activity-of-clitoria-ternatea-leaf-extracts/ Clitoria ternatea; antioxidants; free radical; different solvents.