Table 2.
DEFT/APC results of commercial Cnidii Rhizoma (CR) and Alismatis Rhizoma (AR)
| Sample no. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 | C7 | C8 | C9 | C10 | ||
| CR | DEFT | 6.00a ± 0.03b | 5.12 ± 0.01 | 5.89 ± 0.03 | 7.26 ± 0.00 | 6.25 ± 0.00 | 5.03 ± 0.03 | 5.00 ± 0.06 | 4.88 ± 0.02 | 6.70 ± 0.00 | 8.70 ± 0.01 |
| APC | 3.33 ± 0.01 | 4.00 ± 0.00 | 4.53 ± 0.00 | 6.16 ± 0.00 | 3.59 ± 0.00 | 4.55 ± 0.00 | 2.98 ± 0.00 | 4.36 ± 0.00 | 5.42 ± 0.01 | 7.33 ± 0.01 | |
| D/A ratio | 2.67 ± 0.03 | 1.13 ± 0.02 | 1.37 ± 0.02 | 1.10 ± 0.00 | 2.66 ± 0.00 | 0.48 ± 0.03 | 2.02 ± 0.07 | 0.53 ± 0.01 | 1.29 ± 0.00 | 1.38 ± 0.01 | |
| T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | T6 | T7 | T8 | T9 | T10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR | DEFT | 5.84 ± 0.02 | 4.21 ± 0.04 | 5.26 ± 0.03 | 5.37 ± 0.00 | 4.68 ± 0.00 | 4.41 ± 0.01 | 4.72 ± 0.01 | 4.96 ± 0.02 | 4.69 ± 0.03 | 4.89 ± 0.00 |
| APC | 3.95 ± 0.00 | 2.70 ± 0.00 | 3.48 ± 0.00 | 3.71 ± 0.00 | 3.04 ± 0.00 | 3.04 ± 0.00 | 3.08 ± 0.00 | 3.30 ± 0.00 | 2.70 ± 0.00 | 3.30 ± 0.00 | |
| D/A ratio | 1.88 ± 0.01 | 1.51 ± 0.03 | 1.78 ± 0.03 | 1.67 ± 0.00 | 1.64 ± 0.00 | 1.37 ± 0.01 | 1.64 ± 0.01 | 1.65 ± 0.02 | 1.99 ± 0.02 | 1.58 ± 0.00 | |
aLog CFU/g
bThe values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3)