Improved Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Riboflavin in Milk and Dairy Products

Abstract

Abstract Reported here is a simple liquid chromatographic (LC) method for the i determination of riboflavin in milk (liquid, evaporated, and dry), yogurt, ' and cheese. The method involves passing liquid samples or filtrates of semisolid and solid samples through a Clg cartridge. Retained riboflavin is then eluted with an aliquot of 50% methanol in 0.02M acetate buffer of pH 4. A volume of the eluate is injected into the LC system | consisting of a CJ8 column, a solvent of water-methanol-acetic acid (65 + 35 + 0.1, v/v) with a flow rate of 1 mL/min, and a UV detector set at 270 nm. The method is precise and accurate and compares i favorably with the present AOAC method. Moreover, it involves fewer sample preparation steps and has a total analysis time of less than 1 h.