Applied Biological Chemistry

Table 1 Particle size distribution of ginseng IDF powders

	Dv (10) (μm)	Dv (50) (μm)	Dv (90) (μm)	Specific surface area (m²/kg)	Span
M20	812.00 ± 12.29a	1443.33 ± 25.17a	2496.672 ± 0.82a	10.40 ± 0.96a	0.69 ± 0.01c
M60	624.00 ± 3.46b	880.33 ± 11.68b	1216.67 ± 35.12b	10.48 ± 0.29a	0.67 ± 0.03c
M100	110.67 ± 0.58c	182.67 ± 0.58c	273.00 ± 1.00c	69.15 ± 2.01b	0.90 ± 0.02b
M400	3.74 ± 0.01d	15.83 ± 0.29d	33.63 ± 0.21d	750.30 ± 1.25c	1.87 ± 0.01a

Values represent means ± standard deviations; Means followed by different letters (a–d) in the same column represent statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.05)