アロエ健康食品中のバルバロイン含有量

Abstract

We investigated the content of laxative ingredient barbaloin in aloe health foods, pharmacopoeial aloe, drugs containing aloe, and Aloe arborescens plants by HPLC. The barbaloin content was as follow: aloe health foods (10 products), 0.21～15.6 mg/mL or g; pharmacopoeial aloe (1 product), 143 mg/g; drugs containing aloe (2 products), 30.5～63.6 mg/g; Aloe arborescens (2 products), 2.37～7.06 mg/g. The intakes of barbaloin from health foods and drugs containing aloe were estimated to be 1.25～82.8 and 7.63～58.0 mg/day, respectively. In one product of aloe health foods, barbaloin intake level was higher than that of the drug containing aloe. Therefore, the possibility of excessive intake of barbaloin from aloe health foods should be considered.