Abstract:
A method of ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (UHPLC-TSQ MS) was used to study the products of protopanaxadiol ginsenoside Rb
1 and protopanaxatriol ginsenoside Rg
1 in simulated digestion solution
in vitro for researching the digestion characteristics of ginsenoside. The resullt showed that ginsenoside Rd, Rg
3, Rg
5, and Rk
1 are found in the digestion products of ginsenoside Rb
1. In addition, ginsenoside F
2 is found in the simulated intestinal juice, suggesting that it is the peculiar degradation product. Therefore, the degradation pathways of ginsenoside Rb
1 are as follows: ginsenoside Rb
1→ginsenoside Rd→insenoside Rg
3→ginsenoside Rg
5/Rk
1, ginsenoside Rb
1→ginsenoside Rd→ginsenoside F
2. In the digestive fluids of Rg
1, both F
1 and Rh
1 are identified. The degradation pathways of ginsenoside Rg
1 are determined to be: ginsenoside Rg
1→ginsenoside F
1 and ginsenoside Rg
1→ginsenoside Rh
1. The results showed that the contents of degradation products in simulated saliva, simulated gastric juice and simulated intestinal juice change with the digestion time. The digestion products ginsenoside Rd, Rg
3, Rg
5 and Rk
1 of ginsenoside Rb
1 are the highest after 2-6 h of simulated gastric juice digestion. Ginsenoside F
2 is only produced in simulated intestinal juice to digest, in simulated intestinal juice to digest after 4 h content to the maximum. In simulated intestinal fluid, the degradation products of ginsenosides Rb
1 and Rg
1 are the highest at 4-6 h of digestion. Ginsenoside Rg
1 is degraded in the mock digest to generate F
1 and Rh
1. Degradation products in simulated saliva, gastric juice and intestinal juice content gradually increased, in simulated gastric juice to digest its content reached the highest after 2 h. The degradation of ginsenosides in simulated saliva is milder compared to simulated gastric juice and simulated intestinal juice. However, the degradation products in simulated gastric juice are more abundant than in simulated intestinal juice. In the process of digestion, ginsenoside Rg
1 degrades more easily than Rb
1. Ginsenosides Rg
1 and Rb
1 are hydrolyzed in the digestive tract to produce a variety of small molecular saponins, which provide an important chemical and biological basis for the development and utilization of ginsenosides.