Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 907-915.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.05.16

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UPLC-FLD determination and antioxidant activity of polyphenols in virgin olive oil

LI Xue1,2,3(), ZHANG Yu1,2,3, WANG Junhong1,3, ZHU Zuoyi1,3, SUN Suling1, LIU Zhi1,4, ZHU Shenlong3, SHEN Guoxin3, Agusti ROMERO5, WANG Wei1,3,*()   

  1. 1. Institue of Agro-Product Safety and Nutrition, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Information Traceability for Agricultural Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Hangzhou 310021, China
    3. International Joint Laboratory for Quality and Nutrition of Woody Oils, Hangzhou 310021, China
    4. College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, Loudi 417000, China
    5. Institute of Agriculture and Food Research and Technology, Catalonia 08140, Spain
  • Received:2020-07-07 Online:2021-05-25 Published:2021-05-25
  • Contact: WANG Wei

Abstract:

An ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled with fluorescence detector (FLD) was used to determine the contents of 6 selected phenolic compounds in different samples of virgin olive oil. The total polyphenols content and antioxidant activity of these samples were also detected. The chromatographic column used was Cadenza (150 mm×4.6 mm, 5 μm) and the mobile phase was composed of 0.1% formate-water (A) and acetonitrile (B). Column temperature was at 35℃. The excitation wavelength and emission wavelength were 278 nm and 339 nm. Under the conditions, 6 phenolic compounds in virgin olive oil could be separated well within 17 min, with a wider range of concentration, good linear relationship (R2≥ 0.999 5), high precision with the relative standard deviation (RSD) of intra-day precision≤ 4.91%, RSD of inter-day precision ≤ 5.41%, and reliable recovery with the average recovery rate of 93.42%-119.86%, RSD≤6.26%. The contents of hydroxytyrosol, tyrosol, vanillic acid, pinoresinol and total polyphenols in different virgin olive oil samples were significantly different, while the contents of oleuropein and ligstroside were the lowest and the differences between samples were relatively small. Polyphenols extracts of virgin olive oil have good antioxidant activity, but significant differences between different samples were detected. The total antioxidant capacities of the samples were from 0.95 to 2.71 mmol·L-1 Trolox determined by ABTS method. DPPH free radical scavenging activities of samples were 7.22%-66.23%. Hydroxyl free radical clearance capabilities of samples were 13.24-136.06 U·mL-1. Coratina showed the strongest antioxidant activity among samples. The content of total polyphenols was significantly correlated to total antioxidant capacity of the extracts of virgin olive oil.

Key words: virgin olive oil, polyphenol, UPLC-FLD, antioxidant activity

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