Journal
ANALYTICAL METHODS
Volume 10, Issue 22, Pages 2575-2587Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ay00661j
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- Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province, China [2015C02036]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [C200501]
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The content of flavonoids is important for evaluating the quality of citrus-related products. However, due to the different characteristics of the structures of flavonoids and the lack of a universal method, many methods for quantification have been misused. Here, we used twenty-one citrus flavonoid standards to evaluate four widely used colorimetric methods, and seven species of citrus as natural samples were used to verify the evaluation. The results indicated that NaNO2-Al(NO3)(3)-NaOH and AlCl3 methods could only detect some of the flavonoids and were inadequate to estimate the total flavonoid content, and the 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (2,4-DNPH) method might be affected by other carbonyl compounds in extracts. The Davis method was modified with naringin as the standard at a measuring wavelength of 420 nm for grapefruit and pomelo, and with hesperidin as the standard at a measuring wavelength of 360 nm for other species. It was proved to be the most reliable method for the quantification of citrus flavonoids and was also recommended for laboratories and factories where needed.
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