Research Article

The Influence of Different Drying Methods on Constituents and Antioxidant Activity of Saffron from China

Table 2

The relation of peaks to antioxidant value.

Number of peaksConstituentCorrelation coefficientNumber of peaksConstituentCorrelation coefficient

1/0.19612Trans-3-Gg0.530
2/0.40113Trans-2-gg0.273
3Picrocrocin0.43214/0.184
4Trans-5-tG0.39915Trans-2-G0.190
5HTCC0.37416Cis-4-GG0.079
6/0.31117Safranal0.033
7/0.10118Cis-3-Gg0.329
8Trans-4-GG0.58719/0.390
9/0.31120/0.513
10/0.46921/0.313
11Trans-4-ng0.416