Development of Vitamin E Analysis in Palm Oil

User Benefits

- Significant reduction of analytical time compared with normal phase HPLC analysis. - Reduction of organic solvent consumption compared with normal phase HPLC analysis.

Introduction

Palm oil is made from oil palm and mainly produced in Asia. Palm oil contains various functional natural compounds, which include tocopherol homologues known as Vitamin E. Currently, normal phase HPLC is widely used for quantitative analysis of tocopherol homologues in palm oil. However, this separation mode requires a long time more than 15 min and consumes much organic solvent. Here, we introduce the analysis method for tocopherol in palm oil using Nexera UC, which is Shimadzu supercritical fluid chromatograph (SFC), and compare the analytical time and organic solvents consumptions against conventional HPLC analysis.

December 6, 2021 GMT