火焰原子吸收光谱法测定巨大口蘑子实体中的铁、锌和锰

采用火焰原子吸收光谱法测定了巨大口蘑子实体中的微量元素铁、锌和锰的含量,方法简单,精密度和灵敏度高,相对标准偏差为0.378%-0.842%,回收率95.83%-99.45%.     

荧光光度法测定蔬果类罐头食品中的微量铅

以3mol/L HCl为介质,利用荧光光度计检测PbCl2-4的荧光强度,建立了测定蔬果类罐头食品中微量铅的新方法,该方法的检出限为8.8μg/mL,回收率为;97.0%.     

离子色谱法测定水果及其树叶的含氯量

本文提出用离子色谱法测定水果及其树叶中氯含量的方法,在IC-PAK阴离子柱上,用4 mmol/L邻苯二甲酸(pH4.5)作流动相进行洗脱,电导检测器检测。方法简便、快速,灵敏、准确。氯的最小检出量为0.14μg,相对标准偏差为2.4%,回收率为99.4%。     

An LCEC method for the analysis of synthetic amino acids in fruit juices

Summary A fast and simple HPLC-method for the determination of synthetic amino acids in adulterated orange juice has been developed. The amino acid enantiomers were derivatized with a chiral reagent and the derivatives separated on a 3 m particle size C₁₈ column. An electrochemical detector operating in the oxidative mode was used for detection. The potential at which the derivatives are oxidized was determined by cyclic voltammetry.By using selective (electrochemical) detection it is possible to reduce the sample clean-up to simple centrifugation and filtration steps.     

Determination of fungicide residues in fruits by coupled-column liquid chromatography

Coupled-column liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection was applied to the determination of o-phenylphenol and bitertanol residues in orange and banana fruits. After extraction with a mixture of acetone, dichloromethane-petroleum ether, and ethyl acetate, an extract aliquot of 100 microL was injected directly without any additional clean-up into the chromatographic system using two reversed phase C18 coupled columns. The LC-LC approach allowed automated sample clean up of the vegetal extracts, leading to a simple and rapid analytical procedure, with limits of quantification between 0.01 and 0.05 mg kg(-1). Recovery experiments performed on orange and banana samples fortified at different concentrations (0.01 - 4 mg kg(-1)) gave average recoveries between 70 and 113% with relative standard deviations lower than 15%. The procedure developed was finally applied to orange and banana samples from different geographical locations and the results were confirmed by GC-MS.     

Solid-Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography for Determination of Some Organophosphorus Pesticides

A simple and rapid solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method is presented based on activated charcoal–PVC fiber for determination of some organophosphorus pesticides from aqueous samples in direct mode SPME. After optimization of the experimental variables affecting SPME of the target compounds from aqueous solutions, the proposed method was applied to determine pesticides in fruit juice. The analytes in this procedure were preconcentrated for 15 min on the SPME fiber and subsequently desorbed by heating the fiber at 200 °C for 5 min in the GC injection port. Separation was on a capillary column GC followed by flame ionization detection. Recoveries of the pesticides studied in aqueous samples ranged 42%–63% and repeatability for all analytes was < 9% for a single fiber. Fiber-to-fiber reproducibility was < 18%.     

An optimized direct method for the determination of carboxylic acids in beverages by HPLC

Summary A direct method for the simultaneous determination of tartaric, malic, lactic, acetic, citric, shikimic, fumaric and succinic acids in fruit juices and wines by isocratic reversed phase HPLC is reported.The variables (pH, ionic strength, flow and temperature) have been optimized by a modification of the original simplex method. The separation factor (s) and calibrated resolution product (r^*) have been used as criteria for selectivity optimization. After validation, the method has been applied to the determination of carboxylic acids in apple, orange and lemon juices, white and red wines and musts during the fermenation process.     

Novel modified carbon nanotubes as a selective sorbent for preconcentration and determination of trace copper ions in fruit samples

In this work, multiwalled carbon nanotubes were reacted with N‐[3‐(triet‐hoxysilyl)propyl]isonicotinamide to prepare pyridine‐functionalized carbon nanotubes. This novel sorbent was characterized by infrared spectroscopy, thermal and elemental analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. Functionalized carbon nanotubes were applied for the preconcentration and determination of copper ions using flame atomic absorption spectrometry. Various parameters such as sample pH, flow rate, eluent type and concentration, and its volume were optimized. Under optimal experimental conditions, the limit of detection, the relative standard deviation, and the recovery of the method were 0.65 ng/mL, 3.2% and 99.4%, respectively. After validating the method using standard reference materials, the new sorbent was applied for the extraction and determination of trace copper(II) ions in fruit samples.     

Peptide prefractionation is essential for proteomic approaches employing multiple‐reaction monitoring of fruit proteomic research

Off‐gel? IEF has become a popular tool in proteomics research to fractionate peptides or proteins. We conducted a detailed investigation on the fruit proteomics of apple, banana, and strawberry fruit employing Off‐gel? electrophoresis (OGE) as a crucial step to improve the proteome coverage and quantitative proteomic workflows including multiple‐reaction monitoring (MRM). We provide technical details concerning the application of Off‐gel?IEF, nano‐LC–MS detection, and MRM optimization and analysis. Our results demonstrated that the application of OGE is an effective method for peptide fractionation and increased significantly the number of proteins identified by at least ten times, with more total peptides detected and collected. Furthermore, we developed a protocol combining OGE and MRM studies to identify and quantitatively investigate monodehydroascorbate reductase, a key enzyme in the redox and antioxidant system of apple fruit during fruit ripening. Using this method, the quantitative changes in this protein during ripening and in response to ethylene treatment was investigated. Our results provide direct and comprehensive evidence demonstrating the benefits of OGE and its application for both shotgun and quantitative proteomics research.     

High performance ethylene sensor based on palladium-loaded tin oxide: Application in fruit quality detection

Ethylene (C₂H₄), as a plant hormone, its emission can be served as an indicator to measure fruit quality. Due to the limited physiochemical reactivity of C₂H₄, it is a challenge to develop high performance C₂H₄ sensors for fruit detection. Herein, this paper presents a resistive-type C₂H₄ sensor based on Pd-loaded tin oxide (SnO₂). The C₂H₄ sensing performance of proposed sensor are tested at optimum operating temperature (250 °C) with ambient relative humidity (51.9% RH). The results show that the response of Pd-loaded SnO₂ sensor (11.1, R_a/R_g) is about 3 times higher than that of pristine SnO₂ (3.5) for 100 ppm C₂H₄. The response time is also significantly shortened from 7 s to 1 s compared with pristine SnO₂. Especially, the Pd-loaded SnO₂ sensor possesses good sensitivity (0.58 ppm⁻¹) at low concentration (0.05–1 ppm) with excellent linearity (R² = 0.9963) and low detection limit (50 ppb). The high sensing performance of Pd-loaded SnO₂ are attributed to the excellent adsorption and catalysis effects of Pd nanoparticle. Meaningfully, the potential applications of C₂H₄ sensor are performed for monitoring the maturity and freshness of fruits, which presents a promising prospect in fruit quality evaluation.