Study on the hydrolysis process of food and feed samples using high pressure asher (HPA-S) to determine several amino acids by high performance liquid chromatography

Abstract

The study researchs on the hydrolysis process of food and feed samples using High Pressure Asher (HPA-S) to determine several amino acids by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). HPA-S equipment is mainly used for samples treatment in analysis of metals by spectroscopy. However, the study also found that HPA-S can be used in hydrolysis of food and feed samples in order to analyze amino acids. The temperature of HPA-S equipment could reach 300oC and maintain continuously at 130 bar pressure, completely digetsing the most complex samples matrix within an hour. The successful study of the application of HPA-S to hydrolyze samples in order to analyze amino acids makes the time of sample preparation significantly shorter but still gave the equivalent stability, even higher than the common samples hydrolyzation.