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Ultra high-speed analysis of curcumin in turmeric by UHPLC with Photodiode Array Detection

Resource type: 
Application note
Author(s): 
Jasco
Format: 
pdf
Date of creation: 
31 January 2017
Library code: 
10754

Curcumin is the principal curucuminoid of the popular Indian spice turmeric, which is a member of the polyphenols. It is well known that it has physiological effects such as anti-ulcer, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Turmeric curucuminoids contain curcumin as of keto and enol types.

In this report, curcuminoids in turmeric were analyzed using Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) with PDA detector, which enables ultra high-speed data aquisition of 100 spectra/sec.