Mineral and Phytochemical Profiles and Antioxidant Activity of Herbal Material from Two Temperate Astragalus Species

Table 1

Mineral profile of A. glycyphyllos and A. cicer plant material; whole aerial part (WP) of plants harvested at the vegetative stage (VS) and fully flowering stage (FS) and the separate parts of fully flowering plants (mean ± standard deviation).

Mineral	WP VS	WP FS	Stems	Leaves	Flowers
A. glycyphyllos
Ash, g/100 g	10.82 ± 0.396	7.66 ± 0.007	4.11 ± 0.014	8.97 ± 0.233	7.88 ± 0.375
K, g/100 g	2.78 ± 0.060	2.18 ± 0.092	1.78 ± 0.115	2.22 ± 0.042	2.94 ± 0.045
Ca, g/100 g	1.55 ± 0.141	1.10 ± 0.042	0.701 ± 0.021	1.91 ± 0.113	0.463 ± 0.008
Mg, g/100 g	0.531 ± 0.008	0.511 ± 0.001	0.272 ± 0.003	0.596 ± 0.011	0.341 ± 0.052
P, g/100 g	0.320 ± 0.010	0.276 ± 0.017	0.198 ± 0.003	0.256 ± 0.003	0.428 ± 0.016
Zn, mg/100 g	2.44 ± 0.045	3.47 ± 0.113	2.30 ± 0.113	2.70 ± 0.141	4.76 ± 0.042
Fe, mg/100 g	65.29 ± 3.125	21.72 ± 1.131	15.85 ± 0.495	22.66 ± 1.670	14.10 ± 0.794
A. cicer
Ash, g/100 g	11.23 ± 0.240	8.08 ± 0.014	4.23 ± 0.021	9.81 ± 0.113	9.18 ± 0.057
K, g/100 g	3.06 ± 0.080	1.99 ± 0.071	1.59 ± 0.023	2.38 ± 0.022	3.02 ± 0.099
Ca, g/100 g	1.60 ± 0.085	1.55 ± 0.044	0.649 ± 0.023	2.09 ± 0.085	0.643 ± 0.052
Mg, g/100 g	0.506 ± 0.006	0.538 ± 0.011	0.370 ± 0.008	0.545 ± 0.010	0.328 ± 0.023
P, g/100 g	0.366 ± 0.007	0.275 ± 0.016	0.180 ± 0.007	0.288 ± 0.020	0.473 ± 0.01
Zn, mg/100 g	2.79 ± 0.127	2.97 ± 0.113	1.88 ± 0.085	2.69 ± 0.085	4.61 ± 0.170
Fe, mg/100 g	30.19 ± 2.100	14.94 ± 0.764	6.78 ± 0.368	14.52 ± 0.651	13.13 ± 0.289