Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages 100-105Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.11.104
Keywords
HPLC; UPLC; Vitamin C; Food analysis; Beverages; Pharmaceutical preparations
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Ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods for determination of ascorbic acid (AA) and total AA (TAA) contents (as the sum of AA and dehydroascorbic acid (DHAA) after its reduction to AA) in fruit beverages and in pharmaceutical preparations were compared. Both methods are rapid: total time of analysis was 15 and 6 min for HPLC and UPLC methods, respectively. The methods were validated in terms of linearity, instillment precision, limits of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ), accuracy and recovery. Intra- and inter-day instrument precisions for fruit juices, expressed as RSD, were 2.2% and 2.4% for HPLC, respectively, and 1.7% and 1.9% for UPLC, respectively. For vitamin C tablets, inter- and intra-day precisions were 0.4% and 0.5%, respectively (HPLC), and 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively (UPLC). Both methods were sensitive: LOD was 0.049 mu g/mL for HPLC and 0.024 mu g/mL for UPLC while LOQs were 0.149 and 0.073 mu g/mL for HPLC and UPLC, respectively. These methods could be useful in the routine qualitative and quantitative analysis of AA or TAA in pharmaceutical preparations or fruit beverages. However, UPLC method is more sensitive, faster and consumes less eluent. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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