A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Flavonol glycosides in berries of two major subspecies of sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides L.) and influence of growth sites
Authors: Xueying Ma, Oskar Laaksonen, Jie Zheng, Wei Yang, Martin Trépanier, Heikki Kallio, Baoru Yang
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Food Chemistry
Volume: 200
Issue: 1
First page : 189
Last page: 198
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 0308-8146
eISSN: 1873-7072
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.01.036
Web address : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814616300437
Flavonol glycosides of wild sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides ssp. sinensis) berries from China and cultivated berries (H. rhamnoides ssp. mongolica) from Finland and Canada were identified and quantified. Twenty-six flavonol glycosides were found with isorhamnetin and quercetin as the major aglycones. The contents of flavonol glycosides ranged 23–250 mg/100 g fresh berries and were significantly higher in the berries of ssp. sinensis than in those of ssp. mongolica. Among the cultivars of ssp. mongolica, the berries of ‘Oranzhevaya’ had the lowest (23 mg/100 g) content, and those of ‘Prevoshodnaya’ the highest content of flavonol glycosides (80 mg/100 g). Within the ssp. mongolica, the samples from Kittilä (Northern Finland) had higher levels of most flavonol glycosides than those from Turku (Southern Finland) and Québec. Among the ssp. sinensis berries of different growth sites, increasing trends were detected in the contents of most of the compounds as the altitude increased and as the latitude decreased. The wild berries (ssp. sinensis) from Sichuan had remarkably high contents and unique profiles of flavonol glycosides.