Characterization of secondary metabolites from green cocoa beans using focusing-modulated comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry

Proanthocyanidins as well as other secondary metabolites present in green cocoa beans were studied thanks to a new method involving the use of on-line comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC × LC-MS/MS). In order to enhance the performance of previously developed methodologies, the use of different modulation strategies were explored. Focusing modulation clearly allowed the attainment of higher resolving power and peak capacity compared to non-focusing modulation set-ups. Moreover, the use of active modulation by the addition of a make-up flow efficiently helped to compensate for the solvent strength mismatch produced between dimensions. The optimized method was useful to successfully describe the secondary metabolite composition of green cocoa that was characterized by the presence of 30 main compounds, including 3 xanthines, 2 flavan-3-ols and 24 oligomeric procyanidins with a degree of polymerization up to 12. The obtained results showed that the proanthocyanidins found in the cocoa beans were exclusively B-type procyanidins. The existence of (epi)catechin subunits linked to sugar or galloyl moieties was not observed. The developed method produced a good separation of secondary metabolites allowing an improvement with respect to the available methodologies for the analysis of a complex food sample such as cocoa metabolites in terms of speed of analysis, resolution and peak capacity.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Toro-Uribe, Said, Montero, Lidia, López-Giraldo, Luis, Ibáñez, Elena, Herrero, Miguel
Other Authors:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	Cocoa, Focusing modulation, LC × LC, Phenolic compounds, Proanthocyanidins, Xanthines,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/192160 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100009087 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033
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