The plant material was extracted in 100 mL Erlenmeyer flasks at 50 °C using two distinct techniques—maceration (M) and ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE)—and different NADES combinations (
Table 1) with a plant/solvent proportion of 0.25:10
(w/v). With the aim to compare extraction efficiency of NADES and conventional solvents, water, ethanol 80% (EtOH 80) and methanol (MeOH) were also tested as extractant solvents. For maceration, the extraction was performed in a
SW22 Shaking Water Bath (Julabo, Seelbach, Germany) at 200 rpm for 60 min. Regarding UAE, an
Elmasonic S 100 H (220–240 V, 550 W) ultrasound bath (Elma Hans Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG, Singen, Germany) with 9 L of water was used at a frequency of 37 kHz (in sweep-function) at different extraction periods (15, 30 and 60 min). Since flask positioning in the ultrasound bath has been shown to affect the extraction efficiency [19 (
link)], during extraction procedure all Erlenmeyer flasks were kept in the same position and the water was kept above the level of the solvent in the flasks. All extracts were filtered through Whatman nº. 1 filter paper (Whatman Int. Ltd., Maidstone, England) and the filtrates were stored at −20 °C until use.
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