Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 28, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28083442
Keywords
curcumin; dietary supplements; NMR; GIPAW; PXRD
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Turmeric is a popular spice worldwide due to its anti-inflammatory properties attributed to curcumin. However, curcumin-containing dietary supplements face challenges of poor water solubility and synthetic curcumin substitution. This article proposes the use of C-13 CPMAS NMR method to analyze dietary supplements, and the results confirmed the presence of synthetic curcumin.
Turmeric is a traditional Indian spice that has recently become very popular worldwide because it contains a powerful ingredient called curcumin, which has strong anti-inflammatory properties. Hence, dietary supplements containing extracts rich in curcumin have gained great popularity. The main problems related to curcumin-containing dietary supplements are poor water solubility and the fact that they are often faked by using synthetic curcumin instead of the plant extract. In this article, we propose the use of the C-13 CPMAS NMR method to control the quality of dietary supplements. The analysis of C-13 CPMAS NMR spectra supported by GIPAW computations allowed us to identify a polymorphic form present in dietary supplements (which affected the solubility of curcumin) and to point out a dietary supplement that could be faked by using synthetic curcumin. Further PXRD and HPLC investigations confirmed that the examined supplement contained synthetic curcumin instead of the genuine extract. Our method can be used for routine control, especially because the investigation is performed directly from the capsule/tablet content and does not require any special sample preparation.
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