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The main objectives of this research was to demonstrate fluctuations of compositional constituents and antioxidant effects in aging (AGS) and fermentation (FAGS) processes regarding beneficial qualities of food industry from dried ginseng sprouts (DGS). Moreover, our wok is the first to compare the influential factors on antioxidant and physicochemical properties. Total amino acids (4537 → 2129 → 2450 mg/100g) and volatiles (3538 → 1015 → 325 ng/g) decreased considerably during DGS → AGS → FAGS processes, specifically, arginine (2490 → 1034 → 1351 mg/100g) and β-farnesene (1940 → 202 → 19 ng/g) showed the predominant decrease rates. Total ginsenoside contents also decreased with 37.39 → 33.83 → 34.52 mg/g, however, the deglycosilated ginsenoside F2 (2.15 → 3.56 → 4.59 mg/g, 2.1-fold) and compound K (CK) (0.75 → 2.98 → 4.07 mg/g, 5.4-fold) increased with high variations. Interestingly, ginsenoside Re decreased with the highest variation rate (6.47 → 2.45 → 1.53 mg/g, 4.2-fold). The antioxidant capacities increased remarkably with approximately 2 times in DGS → AGS → FAGS steps as follows: ABTS assay > DPPH assay > hydroxyl radical scavenge > FRAP at 1000 μg/mL. In particular, processed ginseng sprouts were observed high values of total phenolic content (TPC) (2.4 → 4.9 → 5.5 GAE/g), total flavonoid content (TFC) (0.5 → 0.9 → 1.3 RE/g), and of maillard reaction products (MRP) (2.0 → 2.8 → 2.9 OD 420nm) than DGS. Our results suggest that AGS and FAGS may be utilized as potential candidates on beneficial compositions and natural antioxidants for functional foods. • Amino acids in DGS showed significant differences (4537.7. → 2450.6 mg/100 g) after processes. • Ginsenosides of DGS exhibited high decrease rates (37.4. → 34.5 mg/g) after process steps. • Ginsenoside F2 and CK showed high increase rates with 2.15. → 4.59 and 0.75 → 4.07 mg/g. • TPC, TFC and MRP in DGS displayed increase rates after aging and fermentation. • Antioxidant abilities of DGS remarkably increased with 2-folds during process steps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

White (W) light-emitting diode (LED) light has been used as an efficient light source for commercial plant cultivation in vertical farming. This study aimed to examine the effect of W LED light sources on the growth and quality of butterhead and romaine lettuce. Three W LED light sources including normal W light (NWL) which has 450 nm as its pumping wavelength and two specific W lights (SWL1 and SWL2) with shorter blue peak wavelength (437 nm) were used to grow lettuce in comparison to a red (R) and blue (B) LED combination. As a result, SWL1 and SWL2 treatments with the same electrical power or photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) resulted in more growth of both lettuce cultivars compared to RB treatment. Some phenolic and flavonol contents were increased in the RB treatment, whereas SWL2 treatment stimulated the accumulation of other phenolic and flavonol compounds. Meanwhile, neither NWL nor SWL1 treatments increased the individual phenolic and flavonol contents in either cultivar (except for some flavonols in romaine lettuce in the SWL1 group). In addition, light and energy use efficiencies were also highest in the SWL1 and SWL2 treatments. These results illustrate the positive effects of specific W LED light on lettuce growth and quality, and suggest that the specific W LED light sources, especially SWL2, could be preferably used in vertical farming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]