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Thao Quyen Cao1, Dongyup Hahn1,2,3
1Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Allantoin is an abundant component of yams and has been known as a skin protectant due to its pharmacological activities. In previous methods for allantoin determination using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the separation was unsatisfactory. We herein developed a 1H quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) method for quantification of allantoin in the flesh and peel of yams. The method was carried out based on the relative ratio of signals integration of allantoin to a certain amount of the internal standard dimethyl sulfone (DMSO2) and validated in terms of specificity, linearity (range 62.5-2000 μg/ml), sensitivity (limit of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ) 4.63 and 14.03 μg/ml, respectively), precision (RSD% 0.02-0.26), and recovery (86.35-92.11%). The method was then applied for the evaluation of allantoin in flesh and peel extracts of four different yams cultivated in Korea.
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