Table 5. The contents of total polyphenol, total flavonoid, and acidic polysaccharide of cultivated mountain ginseng with different ages

Parameters	Cultivated mountain ginseng
	3-years	5-years	7-years	9-years
Total polyphenol content (μg GAE/g)	807.43±39.993)d4)	995.94±21.50a	934.91±6.27b	880.25±39.14c
Total flavonoid content (mg QE/g)1)	3.78±0.16a	3.80±0.13a	3.89±0.13a	3.44±0.25b
Acidic polysaccharide content (mg GAAE/g)2)	2,569.15±99.38c	3,173.75±22.75b	3,297.99±30.82a	3,177.76±74.11b

¹⁾μg quercetin equivalent/g.
²⁾μg galacturonic acid equivalent/g.
³⁾Mean±SD.
⁴⁾Means with different superscript small letters in the same row are significantly different at p<0.05 by Duncan’s multiple range test.