A composition comprising at least two glycoalkaloids of formula I: wherein: either one or both of the dotted lines represents a
double bond, and the other a
single bond, or both represent single bonds; A: represents a radical selected from the following radicals of general formulae (II) to (V): each of R1 is a radical separately selected from the group consisting of
hydrogen, amino, oxo and OR4; each of R2 is a radical separately selected from the group consisting of
hydrogen, amino and OR4; each of R3 is a radical separately selected from the group consisting of
hydrogen,
carbohydrate and a
carbohydrate derivative; “X” is a radical selected from the group comprising —CH2—, —O— and —NH2—; and wherein the compound includes at least one R4 group that is a
carbohydrate or a derivative thereof selected from the group comprising glyceric
aldehyde, glycerose,
erythrose, threose,
ribose,
arabinose,
xylose, lyxose, altrose,
allose, gulose,
mannose, glucose, idose,
galactose, talose,
rhamnose, dihydroxyactone, erythrulose,
ribulose,
xylulose,
psicose,
fructose,
sorbose,
tagatose, and other hexoses, heptoses, octoses, nanoses, decoses, deoxysugars with branched chains, (e.g. apiose, hamamelose, streptose, cordycepose, mycarose and cladinose), compounds wherein the
aldehyde,
ketone or hydroxyl groups have been substituted (e.g. N-acetyl, acetyl, methyl, replacement of CH2OH),
sugar alcohols,
sugar acids, benzimidazoles, the
enol salts of the carbohydrates, saccharinic acids,
sugar phosphates; wherein the ratio of said glycoalkaloids is between 6:1 and 1:6 and on the proviso that when the glycoalkaloids are solamargine and solasonine and they are present in a 1:1 ratio the solamargine and solasonine are isolated.