Review Article
Chemical Composition and Nutritive Benefits of Chicory (Cichorium intybus) as an Ideal Complementary and/or Alternative Livestock Feed Supplement
Table 3
Chicory extracts (%) as identified by HPLC [
1].
| Chicory | Methanolic extracts (%) | Total phenolic | Phenolic compound (%) |
| Leaves | 23.16 | 26.4 ± 1.05 | Gallic acid | 1.96 |
| Roots | 10.75 | 20.0 ± 0.9 | Protocatechuic acid | 2.50 | Chlorogenic acid | 17.84 | p-Hydroxybenzoic acid | 11.04 | Caffeic acid | 35.22 | Isovanillic acid | 1.97 | p-Coumaric acid | 9.65 | Unknown compound | 19.46 | Protocatechuic acid | 1.77 | Chlorogenic acid | 10.85 | Caffeic acid | 24.36 | m-Coumaric acid | 27.90 | p-Coumaric acid | 25.03 | Unknown compound | 10.09 |
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expressed as mg GAE g−1 dry extract (mean of three replicates ± standard deviation).
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