Table 2.
A. princeps | Seomae mugwort | |
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Essential amino acid (mg/100 g of dried material) | ||
Histidine | 7.18 ± 0.16a | 2.54 ± 0.06b |
Phenylalanine | 66.05 ± 0.26b | 93.78 ± 0.74a |
Valine | 102.71 ± 1.97b | 167.07 ± 0.85a |
Leucine | 59.26 ± 0.65a | 44.51 ± 0.60b |
Isoleucine | 61.56 ± 0.89a | 47.62 ± 00.57b |
Threonine | 22.20 ± 1.03a | 15.12 ± 0.29b |
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Nonessential amino acid (mg/100 g of dried material) | ||
Arginine | 29.47 ± 0.68a | 20.55 ± 0.32b |
γ-Aminobutyric acid | 12.60 ± 0.18b | 48.52 ± 0.87a |
Alanine | 86.90 ± 0.88a | 34.29 ± 0.60b |
Cysteine | 4.42 ± 0.30 | 4.52 ± 0.25 |
Glutamic acid | 23.59 ± 0.68b | 33.45 ± 0.36a |
Tyrosine | 7.62 ± 0.13b | 10.77 ± 0.38a |
Glycine | 4.57 ± 0.25b | 11.39 ± 0.35a |
β-Alanine | 16.18 ± 0.78 | 15.96 ± 0.09 |
α-Aminobutyric acid | 2.53 ± 0.44b | 6.54 ± 0.37a |
Aspartic acid | 7.01 ± 0.51b | 8.68 ± 0.29a |
Serine | 47.52 ± 0.61 | 47.48 ± 0.65 |
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Total essential amino acid | 318.93 ± 1.22b | 370.64 ± 0.27a |
Total nonessential amino acid | 242.35 ± 2.24 | 242.15 ± 2.80 |
Total free amino acid | 561.28 ± 3.30b | 612.79 ± 2.97a |
(a)Data represents the mean ± SD (n = 3). Different superscript letters indicate statistical significance of the differences between Seomae mugwort and A. princeps groups, tested by Student's t-test using the SAS. P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.