Table 1. Constituents of FRLFE, unprocessed lychee fruit extract, and green tea extract.
Constituents | FRLFE* | Unprocessed lychee fruit extract** | Green tea extract* | Method*** | |
Total polyphenols | Flavanols | ≥80 | ≥70 | ≥98 | Porter method + HPLC (monomers); Folin method |
Flavanol monomers | Catechin, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) | 15.0±1.1 | 6.2±1.4 | 69.9±3.6 | HPLC |
Flavanol dimers | Procyanidin A1, A2, B1, and B2 and epicatechin-EGCG | 16.3±1.1 | 11.8±2.2 | 7.6±1.3 | HPLC |
Flavanol trimer | Epicatechin-procyanidin A2 | 4.1±0.7 | 5.1±1.0 | 0.9±0.3 | HPLC |
Other phenolic compounds | Other trimers, tetramers, oligomers, polymers | ≥45 | ≥47 | ≥20 | Calculated by the amounts# |
*Ratio of weight is expressed as mean ± standard deviation in percentage (n = 10) ([10]; Amino Up Chemical Co., Ltd., unpublished data).
**Ratio of weight is expressed as mean ± standard deviation in percentage (n = 14) ([10]; Amino Up Chemical Co., Ltd., unpublished data).
***Described in the Materials and Methods .
Total polyphenols – (monomers + dimers + trimer).