Table 3.

Possible change in compositional monosaccharide of R. tanguticum polysaccharides during in vitro digestion and human fecal fermentation

	In vitro digestion of RP				In vitro fermentation of RPI
	RP	RPS	RPG	RPI	RPI-6 h	RPI-12 h	RPI-24 h	RPI-48 h
Monosaccharides and molar ratios
Xylose	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Galacturonic acid	4.03	3.95	3.96	4.01	4.97	5.11	5.19	4.50
Arabinose	3.75	3.72	3.67	3.70	0.50	0.31	0.27	0.25
Galactose	2.63	2.64	2.54	2.58	1.58	1.06	0.97	0.86
Rhamnose	1.01	0.96	0.97	0.95	0.53	0.43	0.39	0.36
Glucose	0.51	0.54	0.53	0.50	0.19	0.18	0.18	0.16
Glucuronic acid	0.44	0.42	0.45	0.43	0.32	0.20	0.16	0.11
Mannose	0.36	0.38	0.37	0.36	0.30	0.29	0.29	0.27

Sample codes were the same as in Fig. 1