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  • LC-MS/MS Quantitation of Ho...
    Intelmann, Daniel; Haseleu, Gesa; Hofmann, Thomas

    Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 02/2009, Letnik: 57, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    A new quantification method for hop-derived bitter compounds in beer was developed. By means of LC-MS/MS operating in the multiple reaction monitoring mode, a total of 26 hop-derived bitter compounds, namely, the post-, co-, n-, ad-, pre-, and adpre-congeners of iso-α-acids, α-acids, and β-acids, as well as the prenylflavonoid isoxanthohumol and the chalcone xanthohumol, could be simultaneously detected for the first time in a single HPLC run in authentic beer samples without any cleanup procedures. To compensate for the effect of coextracted matrix components in LC-MS/MS analysis, the so-called ECHO technique was applied for the first time as a suitable strategy for the quantitative analysis of the hop-derived bitter compounds in fresh and stored beer. On the basis of quantitative data, the remarkable instability of α-acids and trans-iso-α-acids was confirmed, and it was observed that the degradation of trans-iso-α-acids during the storage of beer is not dependent from the nature of the alkanoyl side chain of the congeners. In contrast, an increase of the concentrations of β-acids and of the prenylflavonoid isoxanthohumol as well as of the chalcone xanthohumol during the storage of beer was observed.