“…Its aerial parts are frequently used in food and cheese preparations and also as an edible vegetable in Iran and Turkey (Coruh, Sagdicoglu Celep, & Ozgokce, 2007;Dini & Babakhanlou, 2002;Durmaz, Sagun, Tarakci, & Ozgokce, 2006;Mozaffarian, 1996). Phytochemical investigations on Chaerophyllum species have demonstrated the presence of lignans, phenylpropanoids and polyacetylenes (Mikaya, Turabelidze, Kemertelidze, & Wulfson, 1981;Rollinger, Zidorn, Dobner, Ellmerer, & Stuppner, 2003), phenolic acids and related compounds (Dall'Acqua, Viola, Piacente, Cappelletti, & Innocenti, 2004), flavonoid glycosides (Gonnet, 1983(Gonnet, , 1986 and carbohydrates (Ayala Garay, Briard, Peron, & Planchot, 2003) in these plants. However, except for two reports from Turkey, one on the antioxidant (Coruh et al, 2007) and the other on the antibacterial (Durmaz et al, 2006) activity of C. macropodum, no studies regarding its bioactivity have yet been conducted.…”