Advances in the Standards & Applied Sciences

Advances in the Standards & Applied Sciences

Investigating the amount of coumarin in cinnamon samples as an indicator of safety and authenticity by liquid chromatography

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Faraji 1
Patrishia Shilchi 2
Masoumeh Mahmoudi-Meymand 1
1 Food, Halal and Agricultural Products Research Group, Research Center of Food Technology and Agricultural Products, Standard Research Institute, Karaj, Iran
2 Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/asas.2023.355059.1010
Abstract
Cinnamon is one of the world's oldest, important and commonly used spices in food industries. Since cinnamon has different varieties which they have diffident qualities, therefore, development of methods for characterization of different variates and evaluation of quality of cinnamon sample is very important. In this research a simple, fast and sensitive method based on liquid chromatography for determination of coumarin as authenticity and safety index in cinnamon samples has been developed. first, several factors influencing the extraction efficiency of coumarin including composition of extraction solvent and type of sample agitation were studied and optimized. Under the optimal conditions, good linear behavior over the investigated concentration ranges (0.2-500 mg/L) with good correlation of determination, R2> 0.996 were obtained. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) based on six replicate determinations at 100 mg/L level of coumarin was less than 6 percent. In studied samples concentration of coumarin was obtained in the range of 6.1-227.7 mg kg-1. Also, between color and coumarin amount of the samples there is positive significant correlation and samples with dark brown color have higher levels of coumarin
Keywords
Authenticity
Cinnamon
Coumarin
High performance liquid chromatography
Subjects
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Advances in the Standards & Applied Sciences
Volume 1, Issue 3
Spring 2023
Pages 13-27