Table 1.
Summary of saponins tentatively identified from wild ginseng (W-GS), ginseng under forest (F-GS), and cultivated ginseng (C-GS) via HPLC-IT-TOF-MSn.
| Number of Saponins | W-GS (nos. 20 and 19) |
F-GS (no. 18) |
C-GS (no. 25) |
Total 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total identified in each ginseng type | 177 (161 in no. 20; 112 in no. 19) |
56 | 60 | 199 |
| First time found in each ginseng type | 162 | 5 | 9 | 184 |
| First time found in ginseng 2 | 54 (45 in no. 20; 41 in no.19) |
5 | 9 | 62 |
| Potential new compounds | 11 (7 in no. 20; 10 in no. 19) |
1 | 6 | 16 |
| Rhamnosides identified | 41 (39 in no. 20; 29 in no. 19) |
8 | 11 | 48 |
| Xylosides identified | 41 (39 in no. 20; 27 in no. 19) |
17 | 16 | 42 |
1 Total numbers were not the summation of numbers from the four samples, because there were saponins detected from more than one sample; 2 including potential new compounds. W-GS no. 20 was approximately 100 years old (estimated); W-GS no. 19 was approximately 50 years old (estimated); F-GS no. 18 was 25 years old; C-GS no. 25 was 6 years old (Table 8).