PMID- 30796780 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191008 LR - 20191210 IS - 1945-239X (Electronic) IS - 0021-9665 (Linking) VI - 57 IP - 5 DP - 2019 May 1 TI - Development of a Rapid Method for the Determination of Phenolic Antioxidants in Dark Chocolate Using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry. PG - 434-442 LID - 10.1093/chromsci/bmz013 [doi] AB - Development of a new comprehensive method based on one-step liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) combined with ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-Orbitrap high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Orbitrap-HRMS) for the determination of eight phenolic compounds in dark chocolate is demonstrated. The study focuses on the optimization of sample preparation, chromatographic separation and Orbitrap-HRMS detection parameters to adjust selectivity and sensitivity of the method. The LLE mixture of formic acid-water-acetonitrile (2:58:40, v/v) and hexane at the component ratio of 1:1 (v/v) was applied for sample preparation. The inter-day and intra-day precision expressed from the relative standard deviations (RSDs) ranged between 5.50-14.2% and 5.60-16.2%. The quantification limits of the target analytes were between 0.1 and 1.0 mg/kg. The method was applied for the analysis of twenty-six samples of dark chocolate with various cocoa solid contents (30-77%) collected from the markets in Latvia. The total levels of the phenolic contents ranged between 330 and 2631 mg/kg. The study demonstrates advantages of the Orbitrap-HRMS method for the study of phenolic compounds in dark chocolate. CI - (c) The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Rusko, Janis AU - Rusko J AD - Laboratory of Food and Environmental Investigations, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Lejupes iela 3, Riga, Latvia. FAU - Pugajeva, Iveta AU - Pugajeva I AD - Laboratory of Food and Environmental Investigations, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Lejupes iela 3, Riga, Latvia. AD - Department of Chemistry, The Academic Center for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia, Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, Latvia. FAU - Perkons, Ingus AU - Perkons I AD - Laboratory of Food and Environmental Investigations, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Lejupes iela 3, Riga, Latvia. FAU - Reinholds, Ingars AU - Reinholds I AD - Laboratory of Food and Environmental Investigations, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Lejupes iela 3, Riga, Latvia. AD - Department of Chemistry, The Academic Center for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia, Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, Latvia. FAU - Bartkiene, Elena AU - Bartkiene E AD - Department of Food Safety and Quality, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A. Mickeviciaus g. 9, Kaunas, Lithuania. FAU - Bartkevics, Vadims AU - Bartkevics V AD - Laboratory of Food and Environmental Investigations, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Lejupes iela 3, Riga, Latvia. AD - Department of Chemistry, The Academic Center for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia, Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, Latvia. LA - eng PT - Evaluation Study PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - J Chromatogr Sci JT - Journal of chromatographic science JID - 0173225 RN - 0 (Antioxidants) RN - 0 (Phenols) SB - IM MH - Antioxidants/*analysis MH - Chocolate/*analysis MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/*methods MH - Limit of Detection MH - Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Phenols/*analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Dark chocolate OT - liquid-liquid extraction OT - orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry OT - phenolic compounds OT - ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography EDAT- 2019/02/24 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/09 06:00 CRDT- 2019/02/24 06:00 PHST- 2017/12/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/01/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/02/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/02/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/24 06:00 [entrez] AID - 5363947 [pii] AID - 10.1093/chromsci/bmz013 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr Sci. 2019 May 1;57(5):434-442. doi: 10.1093/chromsci/bmz013.