Cyperus esculentus whole component analysis

It has studied and analyzed basic ingredients of Cyperus esculentus and its active ingredients with functions. Basic ingredients in Cyperus esculentus are protein, fat, sugar, starch and water with their contents 8.00%, 26.50%, 23.35%, 23.21% and 7.00% separately. This result is similar to the report in document data. From qualitative and quantitative analysis to active ingredients Of cyperus esculentus, we could get that it has been detected that Cyperus esculentus contains organic acid, steroid and terpenoid, but flavone, anthraquinone, phenols, coumarin, lactone and cardiac glycoside have not been detected. TLC and HPLC results on thin layer of Cyperus esculentus sugar have shown: Cyperus esculentus sugars are mainly divided into cane sugar, glucose, fruit sugar and raffinose, other sugars have not been detected. GC analysis of fatty acid composition of Cyperus esculentus: Which explains that nutrition in Cyperus esculentus oil is rather high. Seeing from composition of fatty acid of Cyperus esculentus oil, oleic acid content could reach 52.57% to an extreme, next is hexadecanoic acid and linoleic acid with contents more than 20%. In which content of vitamin E is 0.15% and content of sterol is 0.53% , That explains that oil in Cyperus esculentus is not dry oil, which is with good inoxidizability.