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. 2022 Jul 19;7(30):25948–25957. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c02838

Table 1. Different Analytical Methodologies Employed for the Analyses of G. cambogia Fruit Bioactive Metabolities.

Sample Composition Methodology Advantages Results Ref
Dried and smoked Garcinia cambogia fruit rinds (−)-HCA UV Spectrophotometry Reliable, sensitive and specific method for HCA determination 828 μg/mL of HCA was resulted from 100 g G. cambogia and the absorbance was measured at 467 nm after addition of sodium meta vanadate solution (44)
G. cambogia fruit rinds Xanthochymol and isoxanthochymol LC/ESI–MS/MS Sensitive, short analysis time and selective The limits of detection for xanthochymol and isoxanthochymol were 1.0 ng/mL and 0.5 ng/mL, and xanthochymol was quantified (4.93 ng/mL) (54)
Dried leaves of G. cambogia, G. indica, G. xanthochymus, and G. morella (−)-HCA, lactone, and citric acid HPLC Rapid and sensitive methods in isolation of HCA and lactones The amount of (−)-HCA, lactone, and citric acid in G. cambogia were estimated at 7.95%w/w, 3.25%w/w, and 0.13%w/w, respectively (45)
The fruit rinds of G. cambogia Isoxanthochymol and camboginol (LC/ESI-MS/MS) A validated, sensitive and selective, rapid method The limits of detection for isoxanthochymol and camboginol were 2.0 and 5.0 ng/mL and quantified 11.3 and 57.7 ng/mL, respectively (55)
G. cambogia fruit rinds HCA HPLC-UV Selective method for HCA analysis, validated for levels ranging from 2–10 mg/mL with acceptable reproducibility and accuracy The method showed good reproducibility and accuracy at concentrations ranging from 2 to 10 μg of HCA. The mean recovery of the HCA from G. cambogia extracts ranged from 98.4–100.5% (8)
Fruit rinds of G. cambogia Isoxanthochymol and camboginol HPLC-LC-ESI-MS Validated in terms of repeatability and precision LOD and LOQ were 5 and 10 g/mL for isoxanthochymol and 50 and 100 g/mL for camboginol, respectively. The intra- and interday precisions were 2.34% and 3.41% for isoxanthochymol and 3.35% and 3.66% for camboginol. Quantification of isoxanthochymol and camboginol in Garcinia extracts were 16.6 and 88.2 mg/g (56)
Fruit rinds of 8 different Garcinia species α-mangostin, β-mangostin, γ-mangostin, xanthochymol, and isoxanthochymol UHPLC-PDA The method is accurate, precise, linear, and reproducible xanthochymol, and isoxanthochymol were detected in different Garcinia species extracts and in G. cambogia was 21.42 and 0.89%w/w, respectively (57)
Ten herbal products that included either G. cambogia or G. indica (−)-hydroxycitric acid and (−)-hydroxycitric acid lactone 1H NMR Rapid, no need for additional cleanup of extracts or derivatization, possible to detect of all kind of organic molecules in the same sample, highly reproducible with little instrument-instrument variation, noninvasive, and nondestructive method (−)-hydroxycitric acid and (−)-hydroxycitric acid lactone content in G. cambogia and G. indica ranged from 1.7% to 16.3%, and 3.5% to 20.7% respectively. (53)
Garcinia commercial formulation, 20 mg/kg in rat plasma HCA UPLC–MS/MS Highly sensitive, accurate, precise and linear method for determination of HCA quality control in rat plasma the concentration range of precision was 10.5–5000 ng/mL, LLOQ, 31.25 ng/mL (59)
Human plasma HCA UPLC-MS/MS Rapid, selective and sensitive UPLC-MS/MS method 5.02–12.01% (CV%) 0.29 to 9.20% (RE%). Linearity range 0.05–10 μg/mL (58)
Human plasma HCA GC-MS The derivatizing reagent used was N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)fluoroacetamide and 10% trimethylchlorosilane HCA plasma level ranged from 0.8 to 8.4 mg/mL 30 min and 2 h after ingestion of 2 g HCA, respectively (50)