Identification and Geographical Traceability of 21 Flavonol Glycosides in Green Tea
To distinguish the diflerences in the types and contents of flavonol glycoside in green tea from 6 production areas,and explore the feasibility of flavonol glycoside for geographical traceability of green tea.In this study,the quali-tative identification of flavonol glycosides by ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-electrostatic field or-bitrap high resolution mass spectrometry(UPLC-Q-Orbitrap HRMS),and a quantitative method of flavonol glycosides in green tea was established based on ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem triple quadrupole mass spec-trometry(UPLC-MS/MS).The results showed that a total of 21 kinds of flavonol glycosides were positively identified in green tea,including 5 myricetin glycosides,8 quercetin glycosides and 8 kaempferol glycosides.The quantitative analysis showed that the content of flavonol glycosides varied from different producing area in green tea,in which the content of K-glu-rha-glu was the highest,accounting for 33.1%-57.8%of 21 kinds of flavonol glycosides,followed with the kaempferol glycoside,while content of myricetin glycoside was the lowest.By analyzing the differences and correlations of flavonol glycosides in green tea from 6 production areas indicate that they can be used for geographical traceability of tea.The green teas from different producing areas could be effectively distinguished by PC A.The precision rate was 100.0%for BP-ANN recognition,and 2 kinds of compound markers for flavonol glycoside were acquired with 100%im-portance(P<0.05).The predictive ability of PLS-DA model was 78.2%,and 8 biomarkers(VIP>1)were screened out.The entirety precision rate was 100%by LSD model,and the precision rate of cross validation result was 100%.The results of this study may provide scientific basis for the study of geographical traceability and chemical classification of tea.