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Caffeine Content in Tea and Maté Analysis by Mehul Ananthakumar is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The study determined the caffeine content in five types of tea (white, yellow, green, oolong, black) and two types of maté tea using four different methods: extraction with chloroform, micromethod, method with lead-acetate, and HPLC. 2) The highest caffeine content was found in white tea using all four methods, ranging from 1.33-4.55% caffeine. The lowest caffeine content was found in maté tea and roasted maté tea, ranging from 1.05-1.73% caffeine. 3) The micromethod with benzene was found to exhibit
- Author
- Mehul Ananthakumar
- Language
- EN