Test for constituents groups

Saponins (foam test)

++

Phenolics compounds (FeCl3)

+++

Flavonoids (Shinoda)

++

Aminoacids (Ninhydrin)

+++

Reductants sugars (Fehling)

+++

Anthraquinones (Börntrager)

+

Terpenoids (Sudan III)

Alkaloids (Dragendorff)

+