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Determination of caffeine in dietary supplements by miniaturized portable liquid chromatography

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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1664, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462770

Keywords

Caffeine; Capillary liquid chromatography; Nano liquid chromatography; Portable liquid chromatography; Dietary supplements

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  1. EU FEDER of Spain [CTQ2017-90082-P]
  2. Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO 2020/078]
  3. Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo of Chile
  4. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (Honduras)
  5. MCIU-AEI of Spain [CTQ2017-90082-P]

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In this study, three miniaturized liquid chromatography instruments were evaluated for analyzing caffeine in dietary supplements. The benchtop systems showed superior sensitivity, with capillary LC and nano LC systems having lower limits of detection compared to the portable LC system. The portable LC method was simpler and faster, while still providing accurate quantification of caffeine content in the samples.
In this study three miniaturized liquid chromatography (LC) instruments have been evaluated and compared for the analysis of caffeine in dietary supplements, namely a benchtop capillary LC (capLC) system, a benchtop nano LC (nanoLC)system and a portable LC system. Commercial products derived from different sources of caffeine have been analyzed. Under optimized conditions, the methods based on benchtop systems were superior in terms of sensitivity. The limits of detection (LODs) found with the capLC and nanoLC systems were 0.01 and 0.003 mu g mL(-1), respectively, whereas the LOD obtained with the portable LC instrument was of 1 mu g mL(-1). The portable LC-based method was superior in terms of simplicity and throughput (total analysis time < 15 min). On the basis of the results obtained, a new method for the rapid measurement of caffeine in dietary supplements by portable miniaturized LC is presented. This method provided good linearity within the 1-20 mu g mL(-1) interval, and it allowed the quantification of caffeine even in products derived from decaffeinated green coffee extracts. The contents of caffeine found with the proposed portable LC method in the real samples analyzed ranged from 1.38 to 7 mg per gram of product, which were values statistically equivalent to those found with the benchtop capLC and nanoLC methods, being the precision, expressed as relative standard deviation (RDS), of 2 -14% (n = 3). The proposed portable LC based method can be used as a simple and rapid alternative to estimate the quality, effectiveness and safety of dietary supplements, regarding their caffeine content. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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