Research Article

Optimization of Bioactive Ingredient Extraction from Chinese Herbal Medicine Glycyrrhiza glabra: A Comparative Study of Three Optimization Models

Figure 4

Plot of best fitness by GA method. The fitness function is defined in equation (4), and the maximum content of glycyrrhizic acid is read as 427.156 mg with the optimization extraction conditions: 0.722, 0, 2, and −2 in the coded form.