Determination of Vitamin K1,Menaquinone-4 and Menaquinone-7 in Food
A method for simultaneous determination of vitamin K1,menaquinone-4(MK-4)and menaquinone-7(MK-7)content in food was established,and to evaluate the levels of vitamin K in different foods.After enzymatic hydrolysis and n-hexane extraction,food samples were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.The chromatographic separation was carried out on an Agilent Poroshell 120 EC-C18 column(50 mm×3.0 mm,2.7 μm),with 0.1% formic acid acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid methanol as mobile phase gradient elution.Mass spectrometry method was carried out with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization source,multiple reaction monitoring mode for positive ion detection.Under the optimum conditions,vitamin K1,MK-4 and MK-7 were determined within 4 min.All analytes achieved good linearity in the range of 0.5-500.0 ng/mL,with correlation coefficient higher than 0.9932.The recoveries rates of standard addition were between 87.5% and 110.7%,with the relative standard deviations less than 7.09%.The method was applied to determine the content of vitamin K in 27 kinds of food,the content of vitamin K1 was higher in vegetable foods,MK-4 was the main vitamin K in meat and eggs,and MK-7 was higher in fermented soybean products.The method was simple,reproducible and accurate,and was suitable for the determination of vitamin K1,MK-4 and MK-7 in food.
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