ABSTRACT
Ginkgo, known as Ginkgo bilobaseed ,exhibits a lot of excellent properties,
including neutral in nature, bitter, nutrient-rich, relieving a cough, stopping diarrhea,
Moistening Lung effectiveness, improving brain function and cerebral insufficiency,
anti-aging and other effects. However,ginkgo acid contained in ginkgo has been shown
immune toxicity, cell toxicity and allergenicity and so on. The acid contents> 200
mg/kg, which is much higher than the national standard of ginkgo acid≤ 5 mg/kg, so it
is not situtable to eat too much.
In this paper, using the microwave as a supplementary mean, the optimization of
the process parameters was introduced for the removal of ginkgo acid from Ginkgo
biloba and spray-dried technology for Ginkgo powder.The results were showed as
follows:
Different conditions was studied on removal rate of Ginkgo acid with different
times and different pre-bubble particle sizes of Ginkgo. It was found that there was no
obviously difference between the microwave-assisted method and the traditional
Soxhlet extraction method, Although removal effect of ginkgolic acid slightly less,it
can save more time , and 1 h for the pre-bubble time and 60 meshes for crushed particle
size was finally chosen, by these parameters the highest removal rate of ginkgo acid was
obtained. And measurement was used in the experiment of ginkgo biloba ginkgolic acid
content of the average total 223.8 mg/kg.
In the present study, the single factor experiments and orthogonal test were
performed to investigate the effects of solid-liquid ratio, extraction
temperature,Microwave power,extraction time and ethanol concentration on the removal
rate of ginkgo acid from Ginkgo biloba. Optimizations of various parameters for ginkgo
acid removal were carried out, which employed removal rate as the evaluation standard.
From the experimental results it could be concluded that the preferred extraction solvent,
solid-liquid ratio, extraction temperature and time for microwave-assisted removal of
ginkgo acid were Microwave power500W,75% ethanol, 1:35 (m:V), 60°C, and 55 min,
respectively. Under the optimal conditions, ginkgo acid removal rate could be up to
191.8mg/kg. The removal of ginkgo acid primary and secondary factors are: alcohol
concentration (D)> temperature (B)> liquid ratio (C)> microwave extraction time (A).
Ginkgo powder was prepared by spray drying method. The single factor