Antioxidant activityIn order to evaluate the antioxidant activity of chamomileas well as its products, numerous studies have been performed.Using different in vitro assays, many authors estimated antioxi-dant ability of chamomile essential oil, infusions, decoctions anddifferent types of extracts. By applying two different assays forradical scavenging activity (DPPH and -carotene bleaching inhi-bition), Guimarães et al. (2013a,b) revealed that the infusion anddecoction exhibited similar antioxidant activity. Extracts obtainedwith methanol as a solvent gave higher reducing power and lipidperoxidation inhibition. This is completely understandable sincedepending on the manner of preparation chamomile extracts maycontain different compounds with specific capacities to participatein antioxidant mechanisms. Furthermore, extracts activity is con-ditioned by applied solvent. In the study conducted by Roby et al.(2013), methanolic extracts were found to be superior in compar-ison to ethanolic. Also, those extracts exhibited better scavengingactivity in comparison to extracts obtained by diethyl ether andhexane (Roby et al., 2013).