Taiwan Sugar's Yang Powen explains that they used chromatographic analysis to compare the artificially produced fungus with its natural brother, and determined that its polysaccharides, minerals, vitamins and amino acids were virtually identical, and thus the two would bring the same effects.
台糖的楊博文解釋，他們將人工生產的蟲草與天然的蟲草，以檢驗成分的色層分析（HPLC）方式比對，發現兩者的蟲草多醣體、礦物質、維生素或氨基酸都非常相似，因此具有一樣的功效。