Abstract
Background and Objective: The medicinal plant Crocus sativus L. is widely cultivated to give the dried red stigmas, known as saffron, which is very famous and costly in the world. To date, phytochemical database of saffron contains more than 150 volatile and non-volatile compounds, in which crocetin glycosides or crocin represents as one of three major components (safranal, picrocrocin, and crocin) and defined the saffron quality. The natural product chemistry of the crocin has been extensively studied and reported in the literature. This review aims to summarize and discuss on chemical profile of saffron with focus on the principal composition of the title material, the crocetin glycoside.
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