Mulberry has good efficacy in health protection and medical care mostly due to its rich polyphenols, such as cyanidin, pelargonidin, chlorogenic acid, gallic acid, resveratrol, rutin, quercetin, morin, ursolic acid andβ-sitosterol, which are powerfull antioxidants. These polyphenols are greatly responsible for the quality of mulberry and phenolic compound fingerprint can give a full evaluation of mulberry quality, so it is necessary to build mulberry fingerprint for its quality assessment.
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