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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2008, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (6): 443-449.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2008.06.007

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Study on the Isolation Technology of Theanine from Aqueous Phase of Tea Polypheonls Production

ZHANG Xing-hai1, ZHOU Xiao-hong1, LU Xuan1, WANG Yue-fei2   

  1. 1. The Department of Applied Engineering, Zhejiang Economic and Trade Polytechnic, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    2. Department of Tea Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
  • Received:2008-06-23 Online:2008-12-15 Published:2019-09-12

Abstract: The preparative technology of theanine from the aqueous phase of tea polypheonls production was investigated. Firstly, retreating the aqueous liquids with ZTC-II, then, Separating the clarifying liquids by three kinds of ultra-filtration, the crude theanine (>60%) can be obtained from the filtrated liquid by using the JAD-2000 which is a kind of macroporous resin with weak polarity. High purity theanine (>98%) can be obtained through preparative high performance liquid chromatography (prep-HPLC) with C18 column. Results showed that proteins and pectin compounds were removed over 97% and 89% respectively, after flocculating and ultra-filtration. The removing rate of tea polypheonls and soluble sugar was less than 9% and the theanine was reserved above 93%. Crude theanine and high purity theanine were produced through JAD-2000 and the C18 column for prep-HPLC, the final recovering rate and purity of theanine were 71.5%, 61.2% and 71.3%, 98.3% respectively.

Key words: theanine, production waste-liquor, ZTC, ultrafiltration, macroporous resin

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