Liquid chromatographic determination of L-ascorbate 2-polyphosphate in fish feeds by enzymatic release of L-ascorbate |
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| Authors: | X Y Wang M L Liao T H Hung P A Seib |
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| Affiliation: | Kansas State University, Department of Grain Science and Industry, Manhattan 66506. |
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| Abstract: | An accurate method was devised to assay L-ascorbic 2-polyphosphate esters (AsPP) in fish feed by phosphatase digestion followed by determination of the released L-ascorbic acid (AsA). Compressed yeast and dithiothreitol are added to the phosphatase reaction mixture to give 95-100% recovery of AsA, which is quantitated by reverse-phase liquid chromatography (LC) with electrochemical detection. Chromatograms of all feed digests showed baseline resolution of AsA. In 3 feeds, to which 75-125 ppm AsA equivalents in the form of AsPP were added, the assay procedure gave 98-100% recovery of AsA. |
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