Yamauchi Yuji, Nakamura Akiko, Kitai Miki, Hatanaka Kirara, Kohno Iho, Tanimoto Tsuyoshi
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doshisha Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2007 Sep;55(9):1393-6. doi: 10.1248/cpb.55.1393.
We have improved sample pre-treatment for the effective removal of polyphenols and simple analysis of caffeine in tea using a cartridge filled with polyvinylpolypyrroridone (PVPP). Nearly 100% of catechins were removed from the green tea sample and caffeine was completely recovered in the range of 98.2-101.3% by sample pre-treatment with a PVPP cartridge. Reproducibility of preparing PVPP pre-treatment cartridges was sufficient for quantitative analysis, because RSDs of analytical values for caffeine obtained by using three individual pre-treatment cartridges filled with 10-200 mg PVPP were 0.60-2.8%. The PVPP pre-treatment cartridge also removed polyphenols perfectly and recovered caffeine faultlessly from oolong and black tea samples. Comparison with the conventional method without sample pre-treatment indicated that the present pre-treatment method with a PVPP cartridge was useful for the simple and precise analysis of caffeine in green, oolong and black tea samples.
我们改进了样品预处理方法,使用填充有聚乙烯聚吡咯烷酮(PVPP)的小柱有效去除茶叶中的多酚并对咖啡因进行简单分析。通过用PVPP小柱进行样品预处理,绿茶样品中近100%的儿茶素被去除,咖啡因的回收率在98.2 - 101.3%之间,完全回收。制备PVPP预处理小柱的重现性足以进行定量分析,因为使用三个填充10 - 200 mg PVPP的单独预处理小柱获得的咖啡因分析值的相对标准偏差(RSD)为0.60 - 2.8%。PVPP预处理小柱也能完美去除多酚,并从乌龙茶和红茶样品中完美回收咖啡因。与未进行样品预处理的传统方法相比,表明目前使用PVPP小柱的预处理方法对于绿茶、乌龙茶和红茶样品中咖啡因的简单精确分析很有用。