Figure 1.

The effects of intestinal digestion pH and acidic storage on quercetin and quercetin-3-glucoside recovered from digested onions (A) and the effects of storage pH on digested pure quercetin and quercetin-3-glucoside (B). Samples were digested for 30 minutes with pepsin, 60 minutes with pancreatin and bile, and then stored at -80°C. Each point represents the mean ± standard deviation of triplicate observations within the same experiment. Different letters indicate significantly different observations within each compound (p < 0.05).