Effects of different drying methods on amino acid composition and nutritional evaluation of Lycopus lucidus Turcz.var.hirtus Regel
This study established a pre-column derivatization-high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)method for determi-ning the content of 17 amino acids in Lycopus lucidus Turcz.var.hirtus Regel under different drying methods.The experiment used phenyl isothiocyanate(PITC)as the derivatization reagent,Venusil-AA(4.6 mm × 250 mm,5 µm)amino acid analysis column as the chrom-atographic column,and the mobile phase was 0.1 mol/L sodium acetate-80%acetonitrile solution(glacial acetic acid adjusted to pH 6.5),A gradient elution was used with a flow rate of 0.8 mL/min,a detection wavelength of 254 nm,and a column temperature of 35 ℃.Results showed that the 17 amino acids had good linearity within their respective mass concentration ranges(r≥ 0.999 0),with an average recovery rate of 96.79%to 103.94%and a relative standard deviation(RSD)of 0.73%to 2.97%.After being treated with 12 drying methods,there were differences in the total amount of amino acids in Lycopus lucidus Turcz.var.hirtus Regel(P<0.05),ran-ging from 13.085 to 28.988 mg/g.Among them,with the highest content was 28.988 mg/g under vacuum freezing at-80 ℃.In addi-tion,all 17 amino acids were detected in all 12 drying methods,including 7 essential amino acids and 9 medicinal amino acids.The pro-portion of essential amino acids to total amino acids(EAA/TAA)ranged from 31.80%to 36.51%,with an average of 34.36%and the proportion of medicinal amino acids to total amino acids(MAA/TAA)ranged from 57.72%to 67.84%,with an average proportion of 63.12%.Three principal components were extracted through principal component analysis,and their cumulative variance contribution rate reached 92.83%.The comprehensive score showed that vacuum freezing at-80 ℃ had the highest quality.Cluster analysis divided the 12 drying methods into 3 categories,with vacuum freezing at-80 ℃ and shade-drying having higher content.This method is simple to op-erate,has good separation effect,and is suitable for simultaneously determining the content of 17 amino acid components in Lycopus lucid-us Turcz.var.hirtus Regel.Among the 12 drying methods,vacuum freezing at-80 ℃ had the highest content and high nutritional value,providing a theoretical and practical basis for the processing of Lycopus lucidus Turcz.var.hirtus Regel.