FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (6): 318-320.

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Determination of Ethylmaltol in Food by Rapid Reaction with Fe(Ⅲ)

 DONG  Xue-Zhi, LI  Chang, WANG  Ai-Fang, WANG  Ming-Rui   

  1. Pollution Control Institute, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China
  • Online:2008-06-15 Published:2011-08-26

Abstract: A method for determanation of ethylmaltol in food was proposed based on the reaction of iron(Ⅲ) and ethyl maltol. The results confirmed that this method is convenient, fast and sensitive, so it can be used for fast detection of ethylmaltol in food ,such as coffee plum, candy and so on. The determination result is accordant to that of UV-spectrophotometry, the recovery rate reaches 94.9%.

Key words: ethylmaltol, Fe (III), spectrophotometery