Comparative study on intestinal metabolism and absorption in vivo of ginsenosides in sulphur‐fumigated and non‐fumigated ginseng by ultra performance liquid chromatography quadruple time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry based chemical profiling approach

Our previous study indicated that sulphur-fumigation of ginseng in post-harvest handling processes could induce chemical transformation of ginsenosides to generate multiple ginsenoside sulphur derivatives. In this study, the influence of sulphur-fumigation on intestinal metabolism and absorption in vivo of ginsenosides in ginseng was sequentially studied. The intestinal metabolic and absorbed profiles of ginsenosides in rats after intra-gastric...