Simultaneous analysis of 18 mineral elements in Cyclocarya paliurus polysaccharide by ICP-AES.

Jian-Hua Xie, Ming-Yue Shen, Shao-Ping Nie, Xin Liu, Jun-Yi Yin, Dan-Fei Huang, Hui Zhang, Ming-Yong Xie

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China. jhxie@ncu.edu.cn

Carbohydrate polymers 2013 Apr 15

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The contents of 18 kinds of mineral elements in Cyclocarya paliurus polysaccharide samples were determined by ICP-AES. The limits of detection (LOD) of the method for 18 elements were in the range of 0.01-3.80 mg/kg. The average recoveries obtained by the standard addition method were found between 94.34% and 105.69% (RSD, 1.01-4.23%). The results showed that C. paliurus polysaccharides were abundant in major and trace elements which are healthy for human body. The contents of Ca, Al, Mg, K, Fe, Mn and P were very high, ranging from 274.5±10.3 to 5980.0±102.7 mg/kg, while the contents of Zn, Na, Se, Cr, Pb, Cu and As ranged from 0.9±0.1 to 37.1±4.2 mg/kg. Finally, the levels of Ni, Cd, V and Co were not detected in the samples. ICP-AES is a simple, precise and efficient method for the determination of many mineral elements in polysaccharide samples simultaneously. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Jian-Hua Xie, Ming-Yue Shen, Shao-Ping Nie, Xin Liu, Jun-Yi Yin, Dan-Fei Huang, Hui Zhang, Ming-Yong Xie. Simultaneous analysis of 18 mineral elements in Cyclocarya paliurus polysaccharide by ICP-AES. Carbohydrate polymers. 2013 Apr 15;94(1):216-20