Determination of Caffeine and Theobromine in Six different Brands of Tea Infused by Different Methods Using HPLC Method


Abstract in English

This paper presents a developed HPLC method for the determination of caffeine and theobromine in different black and green tea infusion samples, using different infusion methods, such as infusion with and without boiling, repeated and continuous infusion. A mixture of double-distilled water and methanol (60:40 v/v), was used as a mobile phase. In this condition, the retention time for theobromine was three minutes and for caffeine five minutes.

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