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Sanchi (Panax notoginseng) root has been widely used as traditional herb to stanch blood, disperse gore and reduce pain in China for centuries. However, the nutritional information about its seed was unknown. Sanchi seeds obtained from Yunnan Province were analyzed for their nutritional composition, fatty acid, amino acid profile and sugar contents. Sanchi seeds were abundant in fats (46.35 %) and proteins (23.90 %). Notably, seven fatty acid compositions were determined and abundant in unsaturated fatty acid (99.56 %), containing 95.71 % oleic acid. Sanchi seed proteins were rich in glutenin, globulin and albumin (28.63, 27.83 and 26.81 %, respectively). Sanchi seed contain 17 kinds of amino acids, of which nine were essential amino acids, accounting for 41.30 %. These nutritional compositions indicate that Sanchi seed has the potentiality to be exploited as human edible oil, industrial use, new medicine or healthcare products for diabetes patients due to low sugar content.
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This work was supported by Tianjin TASLY Modern TCM Resources Co., Ltd. We thank Dr. Rang Cao and Dr. Hui Duan for their technical help, Dr. Li Yang for providing the P. notoginseng seeds and Professor Wenlong Xu for revision suggestion.
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Pengguo Xia and Hongbo Guo have contributed equally to this work.
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Xia, P., Guo, H., Liang, Z. et al. Nutritional composition of Sanchi (Panax notoginseng) seed and its potential for industrial use. Genet Resour Crop Evol 61, 663–667 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-014-0082-9
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