Analysis of Organic Acids, Deacetyl Asperulosidic Acid and Polyphenolic Compounds as a Potential Tool for Characterization of Noni (Morinda citrifolia) Products

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BITTOVÁ Miroslava HLADŮVKOVÁ Dita ROBLOVÁ Vendula KRÁČMAR Stanislav KUBÁŇ Petr KUBÁŇ Vlastimil

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Natural Product Communications
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Faculty of Science

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Field Analytic chemistry
Keywords Morinda citrifolia L.; Noni; Juice; Organic acids; Deacetyl asperulosidic acid; Polyphenolics; RP-HPLC; Antioxidant potential
Description Organic acids, deacetyl asperulosidic acid (DAA) and polyphenolic compounds in various noni (Morinda citrifolia L.) products (4 juices, 4 dry fruit powders and 2 capsules with dry fruit powder) were analyzed. Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) coupled with a variable wavelength detector (VWD) and electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ESI-TOF MS) was applied for simultaneous analysis of organic acids (malic, lactic, citric and succinic acid) and DAA. An RP-HPLC method with diode-array detector (DAD) was developed for the analysis of polyphenolic compound content (rutin, catechin, quercitrin, kaempferol, gallic acid, caffeic acid and p-coumaric acid). The developed methods can contribute to better characterization of available noni products that is required from the consumers. In our study, we discovered significant dissimilarities in the content of DAA, citric acid and several phenolic compounds in some samples.
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