IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Novel and Sensitive Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of a Cosmeceutical: Tetrahydrocurcumin

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Syeda Ayesha

Abstract

Tetrahydrocurcumin (THC), a cosmeceutical is one of the major metabolite and reduced form of curcumin. Simple, sensitive, selective, rapid and reliable method for the spectrophotometric determination of tetraydrocurcumin has been developed. The method is based on the reaction of THC with iron (III) and subsequent reaction with ferricyanide to yield a Prussian Blue product with a maximum absorption at 720 nm. The method obeys Beer's law. As many as ten each of anions and cations listed do not interfere.

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