The free radical scavenging activity was determined by the method of Karagozler et al., (2008) with some modifications. Briefly the ethanolic fruit peel crude extracts were dissolved with ethanol to prepare various sample solutions. 3 ml of each extract solution was mixed with 1ml of 0.1mM of DPPH ethanolic solution, the mixture was shaken vigorously and maintained for 30 min in dark. The absorbance of the mixture at 517 nm was measured immediately using a spectrophotometer. The absorbance of the control was obtained by replacing the sample with ethanol. BHA were used as standard reference. The inhibition of DPPH radicals by the samples was calculated according to the following equation: DPPH radical scavenging activity (%) = [(A0– A 1)/ A 1] x 100. Where A0 is the absorbance of the control reaction, and A1 is the absorbance of the test compound. Crude extract concentration providing 50% inhibition (IC50) was calculated from the graph plotting inhibition percentage against fruit peels crude extract concentration.