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A recent study aiming to investigate, for the first time, the biochemical and nutritional composition of the peels from five purple and two red potato cultivars and evaluate them as sources of healthy ingredients for the formulations of nutraceuticals quantified total phenolic content, carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids using UV–visible (UV-vis) spectrophotometry. The phytochemical composition was further characterized via high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with a diode-array detector (HPLC-DAD).

Researchers at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) and the University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand) out to show that applying audible sound via a linear actuator, which impacted primarily on particle motion rather than the pressure component of audible sound, would significantly decrease beer fermentation time compared to control fermentations by keeping more viable yeast in suspension. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to measure the abundance of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the beer samples.

A joint study conducted by the Henan University of Technology (Zhengzhou, China) and the Food Laboratory of Zhongyuan (Henan Province, China) developed and evaluated what the researchers deemed a novel zwitterionic stationary phase, Sil-DBO-PS, for hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC).LCGC International spoke to Ashraf Ali of the Henan University of Technology about this research and their findings.

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) was used to detect the chemical components of natural musk, harvested from forest musk deer at multiple stages of maturity. This research combines metabolomic profiling with biosynthetic pathway analysis to identify potential precursors and enzymes involved in musk biosynthesis.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Children's Nutrition Research Center (Houston, Texas) developed and validated a high-throughput extraction and ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) method to separate and quantify 39 spinach flavonoid species in 11.5 min.

Two proof-of-concept hydrophilic interaction chromatography HILIC) methods were developed in a joint study conducted by the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Sanofi, and the Waters Corporation—one for disrupting LNPs and retaining the mRNA, and another for detecting only unencapsulated mRNA to assess encapsulation efficiency. LCGC International spoke to Jonathan Maurer, first author of the paper that resulted from this study, about the methods and the efforts that led up to their development.