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Determination of Flavonoids in Fuzhuan Tea by HPLC

LI Shi,LU Qiang,LI Yin-hua,HUANG Jian-an,LIU Zhong-hua   

  1. 1. Department of Botanic Resource Engineering, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Tea Science, Ministry of Education, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
  • Online:2013-06-25 Published:2013-06-17

Abstract:

An HPLC method for the determination of flavonoids in Fuzhuan tea was presented. Chromatographic separation
was performed on Welchrom C18 (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) column by graditent elution with methanol as mobile phase A and
0.5% acetic acid as mobile phase B at a flow rate of 0.8 mL/min. Detection wavelength was 295 nm. It took 80 min to complete
the analytical process. The established method was precise, stable and repeatable, with an average recovery of 94.88%. Thanks
to its ease of use, specificity and accuracy, this method can be used for the determination of flavonoids of Fuzhuan tea.

Key words: Fuzhuan tea, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), flavonoid