Simultaneous Determination of Squalene, α-Tocopherol and β-Carotene in Table Olives by Solid Phase Extraction and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Diode Array Detection
2013
Sagratini, Gianni | Allegrini, Marco | Caprioli, Giovanni | Cristalli, Gloria | Giardinà, Dario | Maggi, Filippo | Ricciutelli, Massimo | Sirocchi, Veronica | Vittori, Sauro
Olives, the fruit of the Olea europaea tree, are highly appreciated in olive oil and table olives (20 % of crops) not only for their flavor but also for their nutritional properties, especially for antioxidant compounds such as squalling (SQ), α-tocopherol (TH) and β-carotene (BC). This paper presents a new analytical method for simultaneously determining SQ, TH and BC in table olives by using solid phase extraction (SPE) and high performance-liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD), avoiding the classic saponification process. The correlation coefficients of calibration curves of the analyzed compounds ranged from 0.998 to 0.999, and the recoveries were in the range of 89.4–99.6 %. The validated method was used to analyze 30 table olive samples from Italy for their content of SQ (537–1,583 mg kg⁻¹), TH (21–90 mg kg⁻¹) and BC (0.4–2.6 mg kg⁻¹). Finally, experiments with HPLC-MS were conducted to compare this novel method with the classic saponification procedure.
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