Skip to main content
. 2020 Dec 12;9(12):1854. doi: 10.3390/foods9121854

Table 2.

Recovery percentages (% ± SD) for atropine and scopolamine in standard solutions (Ss) and buckwheat (Bu-F1O) and sorghum (So-FO) flours extracts using sulfonic acid-functionalized SBA-15 and commercial materials as SCX-SPE sorbents *.

Solvent M-SBA-15-SO3 SCX-SPE Sorbent MFE-PAK® SCX-SPE Sorbent
Atropine Scopolamine Atropine Scopolamine
Ss Bu-F1O So-FO Ss Bu-F1O So-FO Ss Ss
ACN/H2O, 0.5% HCOOH (3:5, v/v) 74 ± 2 46± 22 10 ± 1 81 ± 4 5 ± 1 8 ± 1 - -
ACN/H2O, 1% HCOOH (3:5, v/v) 78 ± 1 7 ± 3 7 ± 2 80 ± 5 4 ± 2 7 ± 3 - -
MeOH/H2O, 0.5% HAc (2:1, v/v) 86 ± 3 16 ± 3 15 ± 2 105 ± 10 12 ± 1 16 ± 0 65 ± 3 65 ± 2
H2O, 1.1% HCl (pH 1.0) 90 ± 7 43 ± 10 66 ± 3 103 ± 1 25 ± 7 48± 3 36 ± 4 15 ± 2

* SPE experimental conditions - Sorbent amount: 50 mg. Loading: 8 mL of 0.1 mg/L TAs standard solution or sample extracts from flours spiked with 0.1 mL of a 1 mg/L TAs standard solution. Elution: 3 mL of MeOH and 2 × 3 mL MeOH + 10% of ammonia solution (pH 11.8). Conditioning (5 mL) and washing (3 mL) of the same mixture used for the loading step.