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AIM To establish a UFLC-QTRAP-MS/MS method for the simultaneous content determination of phenylalanine,isoleucine,methionine,valine,proline,tyrosine,aspartic acid,histidine,arginine,lysine and glutamic acid in Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino.METHODS The analysis of aqueous extract of G.pentaphyllum was performed on a Waters XBridge Amide column (2.1 mm × 100 mm,3.5 μm),with the mobile phase comprising of water-acetonitrile (containing 0.2％ formic acid) flowing at 0.6 mL/min in a gradient elution manner.RESULTS Eleven amino acids showed good linear relationships within their own ranges (r ＞0.998 9),whose average recoveries were 90.74％-103.05％ with the RSDs of 0.61％-5.00％.CONCLU-SION This accurate,stable and reproducible method can be used for the quality control of G.pentaphyllum.