Determination of glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and diacetyl in red ginseng products using dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction coupled with GC-MS.

Abstract

A simple and rapid dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction method coupled with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry was applied for the determination of glyoxal as quinoxaline, methylglyoxal as 2-methylquinoxaline, and diacetyl as 2,3-dimethylquinoxaline in red ginseng products. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated under optimum extraction conditions (extraction solvent: chloroform 100μL, disperser solvent: methanol 200μL, derivatizing agent concentration: 5g/L, reaction time: 1 h, and no addition of salt). The limit of detection and limit of quantitation were 1.30 and 4.33μg/L for glyoxal, 1.86 and 6.20μg/L for methylglyoxal, and 1.45 and 4.82μg/L for diacetyl. The intra- and interday relative standard deviations were <4.95 and 5.80%, respectively. The relative recoveries were 92.4-103.9% in red ginseng concentrate and 99.4-110.7% in juice samples. Red ginseng concentrates were found to contain 191-4274μg/kg of glyoxal, 1336-4798μg/kg of methylglyoxal, and 0-830μg/kg of diacetyl, whereas for red ginseng juices, the respective concentrations were 72-865, 69-3613, and 6-344μg/L.