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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 572-576.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2014.06.018

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A Method for Determination of Total Organic Acids in Tea Plant with Automatic Potentiometic Titration

ZHU Xujun1, YANG Pingping1,2, XU Renkou2, WANG Yuhua1, LI Xinghui1,*   

  1. 1. Institute of Tea Science, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing 210095, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
  • Received:2014-04-14 Revised:2014-07-16 Online:2014-12-20 Published:2019-09-03

Abstract: A method for determination of total organic acids in tea plant by automatic potentiometic titrator was established in this study. And the content of total organic acids in bud, young leaf, mature leaf and withered leaf were determined by this method. The results showed that after extracting by ethanol, concentrated under reduced pressure, the concentrated solution was alkalized and acidified, then detected with automatic potentiometic titrator, the samples were spiked at the level of 2.0-45.0 mg·g-1, and the recovery of organic acids range from 96.0%-99.6% with RSD less than 5.7%. This simple and sensitive method meets with the analytical requirement to total organic acids in tea. The content of total organic acids in bud, young leaf, mature leaf and withered leaf was 44.9, 20.1, 21.1 and 1.99 mg·g-1 respectively.

Key words: automatic potentiometic titration, tea leaves, total organic acids

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