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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 322-326.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2013.04.005

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Determination of Conjugated Caffeine in Tea by Low-pH Precipitation Method

SONG Shuang1,2,3, HUANG Ye-wei1,2,3, WANG Xuan-jun2,3, YU Hai-shuang2,3, FANG Chong-ye2,3, SHENG Jun2,3,*, HAO Shu-mei4,*   

  1. 1. College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Pu-erh Tea Science, Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China;
    3. Tea research Center of Yunnan, Kunming 650201, China;
    4. Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • Received:2012-12-21 Revised:2013-03-07 Online:2013-08-30 Published:2019-09-04

Abstract: The feasibility and superiority in the determination of conjugated caffeine in tea by the method of low-pH precipitation was investigated in order to provide some theories for the determination of caffeine content in tea accurately. The aqueous extract of green tea, black tea and fermented Pu-erh tea were selected as test samples. The content of conjugated caffeine of the tea samples was determined by the method of low-pH precipitation. Meanwhile, the results of conjugated caffeine content were verified by the method of chloroform-extraction. The results showed as follows: Low-pH precipitation method is suitable for the determination of conjugated caffeine in tea. The content of conjugated caffeine in fermented Pu-erh tea is the highest (2.59%) among the three tea samples. However, the contents of conjugated caffeine in the green tea and black tea were relatively low (0.04% and 0.07% respectively).

Key words: low-pH precipitation, tea, conjugate-caffeine

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