CONTENTS OF ASCORBIC AND ORGANIC ACIDS IN YELLOW SWEET CLOVER (MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS MILL.) HERB

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Issue: 
2
Year: 
2015

T.V. Shchemelinina, Professor A.A. Sorokina, PhD 1I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; 8, Trubetskaya St., Build. 2, Moscow 119991

Yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis Mill.) is widespread in Russia and permitted for medical application. The metabolome for the plant has been inadequately investigated so there is a need for an in-depth study of the composition of biologically active substances of yellow sweet clover. Pharmacopoeia procedures have established that yellow sweet clover herb growing in the Moscow Region contains 5.6% free organic acids calculated with reference to malic acid and 1.3% ascorbic acid.

Keywords: 
yellow sweet clover
Melilotus officinslis Mill.
herb
organic acids
ascorbic acid
content

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