Analysis of some selected catechins and caffeine in green tea by high performance liquid chromatography

Analysis of some selected catechins and caffeine in green tea by high performance liquid chromatography

Author: M.S. El-Shahawi and A. Hamza and S.O. Bahaffi and A.A. Al-Sibaai and T.N. Abduljabbar

Green tea seems to have a positive impact on health due to the catechins-found as flavanols. Thus, the present study was aimed to develop a low cost reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of flavanol contents, namely catechin (C), epicatechin (EC), epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin 3-gallate (ECG) and epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG) and caffeine in 29 commercial green tea samples available in a Saudi Arabian local market. A C-18 reversed-phase column, acetonitrile–trifluoroacetic acid as a mobile phase, coupled with UV detector at 205 nm, was successfully used for precise analysis of the tested analytes in boiled water of digested tea leaves. The average values of N (No. of theoretical plates), HETP (height equivalent of theoretical plates) and Rs (separation factor) (at 10 μg ml−1of the catechins EC, EGC, EGCG and ECG) were 2.6 × 103 ± 1.2 × 103, 1.7 × 10−3 ± 4.7 × 10−4 cm and 1.7 ± 5.53 × 10−2, respectively. The developed HPLC method demonstrated excellent performance, with low limits of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ) of the tested catechins of 0.004–0.05 μg ml−1and 0.01–0.17 μg ml−1, respectively, and recovery percentages of 96–101%. The influence of infusion time (5–30 min) and temperature on the content of the flavanols was investigated by HPLC. After a 5 min infusion of the tea leaves, the average concentrations of caffeine, catechin, EC, EGC, ECG and EGCG were found to be in the ranges 0.086–2.23, 0.113–2.94, 0.58–10.22, 0.19–24.9, 0.22–13.9 and 1.01–43.3 mg g−1, respectively. The contents of caffeine and catechins followed the sequence: EGCG > EGC > ECG > EC > C > caffeine. The method was applied satisfactorily for the analysis of (+)-catechin, even at trace and ultra trace concentrations of catechins. The method was rapid, accurate, reproducible and ideal for routine analysis.

 

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