Table 6.
Ginsenoside composition of Korean curved ginseng products
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| 30 Piece-grade1) (n=43) | 50 Piece-grade (n=43) | Total (n=86) | |||||||
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| Rb1 | Rf | Rg1 | Rb1 | Rf | Rg1 | Rb1 | Rf | Rg1 | |
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| Mean | 3.1 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| SD | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Maximum | 4.7 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 4.0 |
| Minimum | 2.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
| Coefficient of variance (%)2) | 20.0 | 32.1 | 20.3 | 16.3 | 27.7 | 18.5 | 19.2 | 30.1 | 20.6 |
1)Piece-grade: number of pieces per 300 g package for each curved ginseng products.
2)(SD/mean)×100.