Determination of seven nicotinamide compounds in health products

Abstract

Objective： This study aimed to establish an ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) method for simultaneous determination of 7 nicotinamide compounds in health food. Methods： The samples were dissolved in 10% methanol water, extracted by ultrasonic, and 10 mmol/L ammonium acetate-acetonitrile was used as the mobile phase of gradient elution. The seven nicotinamide compounds were monitored by ESI, positive and negative ion scanning mode, and multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. Results： The 7 nicotinamide compounds showed good linearity in the mass concentration range, and the correlation coefficients were greater than 0.996. The limit of detection (LOD) was 0.075~0.600 mg/kg, the recovery was 84.6%~108.6% with the relative standard deviation of 2.1%~8.7% (n=6). Conclusion： The method has the advantages of simple operation, high speed, high efficiency, high recovery rateand good precision, and can be used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of nicotinamide and other analogues in health care foods.

Keywords

• health care foods
• nicotinamide compounds
• ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
• multiple reaction monitoring mode
• simultaneous determination