Figure 3

Caco-2 uptake of quercetin-4-glucoside (A) and quercetin (B) from digested and non-digested shallot homogenates. Shallot homogenates were digested for 30 minutes with pepsin at pH 2.0 and for 60 minutes with pancreatin/bile at pH 6.5. Digestates were directly placed on cells or diluted 1:2 or 1:4 in HBSS and then placed on cells. Cells were incubated with digestates for 30 minutes at 37°C. The imbedded graph in (B) shows quercetin recovery from shallots following the digestion procedure only. Each bar represents the mean ± standard deviation of triplicate observations within the same experiment. Different letters indicate significantly different observations within each compound (p < 0.05).