Simultaneous Analysis of Malondialdehyde, 4-Hydroxy-2-hexenal

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Simultaneous Analysis of Malondialdehyde, 4-Hydroxy-2hexenal, and 4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal in Vegetable Oil by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Lukai Ma, and Guoqin Liu J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04566 • Publication Date (Web): 27 Nov 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 29, 2017

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Simultaneous Analysis of Malondialdehyde, 4-Hydroxy-2-hexenal, and 4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal in Vegetable Oil by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Lukai Ma †, Guoqin Liu*, †, ‡



School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

510640, China ‡

Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Natural Products and Product Safety,

South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

Corresponding author *G. Liu, Mailing address: No.381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, China. Tel: 8620-8711-4262. Fax: 8620-8711-3875. E-mail: [email protected].

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A

group

of

toxic

aldehydes

such

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malondialdehyde

(MDA),

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ABSTRACT:

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4-hydroxy-2-hexenal (HHE) and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE) have been found in various

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vegetable oils and oil-based foods. Then simultaneous determination of them holds a great

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need in both the oil chemistry field and food field. In the present study, a simple and efficient

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analytical method was successfully developed for the simultaneous separation and

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detection of MDA, HHE and HNE in vegetable oils by reversed-phase high-performance

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liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) coupled with photodiode array detector (PAD) at

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dual-channel detection mode. The effect of various experimental factors on the extraction

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performance, such as coextraction solvent system, butylated hydroxytoluene addition, and

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trichloroacetic acid addition were systematically investigated. Results showed that the

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linear ranges were 0.02 ‒ 10.00 µg/mL for MDA, 0.02 ‒ 4.00 µg/mL for HHE, and 0.03 ‒

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4.00 µg/mL for HNE with the satisfactory correlation coefficient of > 0.999 for all detected

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aldehydes. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) of MDA, HHE, and

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HNE were ~0.021and 0.020 µg/mL, ~0.009 and 0.020 µg/mL, and ~0.014 and 0.030 µg/mL,

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respectively. Their recoveries were 99.64‒102.18%, 102.34‒104.61%, and 98.87‒103.04%

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for rapeseed oil and 96.38–98.05%, 96.19‒101.34%, and 96.86‒99.04% for French fries,

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separately. Under the selected conditions, the developed methods was successfully

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applied to the simultaneous determination of MDA, HHE and HNE in different tested

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vegetable oils. The results indicated that this method could be employed for the quality

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assessment of vegetable oils.

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KEYWORDS: malondialdehyde, 4-hydroxy-2-hexenal, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal, vegetable oil,

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oxidation, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

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INTRODUCTION

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Free radical-induced lipid oxidation is one of the major cause of deterioration of

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vegetable oil and oil-based food in the presence of oxygen, especially those containing

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polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA).1 Oxidation of PUFA leads to the formation of primary

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lipid oxidation products, peroxide or hydroperoxide, while aldehydes are the main

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secondary lipid oxidation products.2 Malondialdehyde (MDA) and α, β-unsaturated

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aldehyde such as 4-hydroxy-2-hexenal (HHE) and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE) are formed

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among other saturated or unsaturated aldehydes. MDA, a three-carbon dialdehyde, is

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known to be formed from both ω-3 and ω-6 PUFAs and has been claimed to be the most

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important end-product of lipid autoxidation.3-5 While HHE and HNE, possessing double

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bond and hydroxyl group in structure, are related to the oxidation of ω-3 and ω-6 PUFA,

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respectively.6, 7 MDA, HHE, and HNE have been identified as the toxic substances due to

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their high chemical reactivity with proteins and DNA, leading to the structural damage and

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alteration of their functionality.8,

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several diseases such as adult respiratory distress syndrome, atherogenesis, diabetes, and

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even cancer.10,

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vegetable oils, especially those which are rich in PUFA and processed at high

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temperature.12, 13 Meanwhile, these three reactive aldehydes can be incorporated into fried

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foods along with oxidized vegetable oil and be a part of our diet, and then be absorbed from

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the gut into the blood system.14-17 Thus, it can be easily understood that PUFA-rich

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vegetable oil and oil-based food can be a major intake source of MDA, HNE and HHE,

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which threatens human health due to high consumption of PUFA products around the world.

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Moreover, they have also been considered to cause

Unfortunately, MDA, HHE, and HNE have been found in various

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Recently, the Belgian Superior Health Council has considered MDA and HNE as a major

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concern for human health.18 What’s more, a threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) level

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of exposure for MDA was 30 µg/kg bw/day, and 1.5 µg/kg bw/day for HHE and HNE in the

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suggestion of European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific committee.19 Consequently,

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increasing attention has been gained to the formation and inhibition of MDA, HHE, and

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HNE in vegetable oil, which are of great urgency. However, the determination of these three

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aldehydes is an important foundation and necessity.

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Due to the great difference in functional group (apart from the aldehyde group, see

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Figure 1) between MDA and HHE/HNE, their chemical polarities differ largely, and they lack

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suitable visible chromophore, which increases the difficulty of simultaneous determination

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of these three aldehydes. Thus, the previous study mainly focused on the separated

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determination of MDA and HHE/HNE in vegetable oil and oil-based food.16, 20-23 Moreover,

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some of these methods, such as the thiobarbituric acid (TBA) method, lack of specificity

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and require a high derivatization temperature (90 °C) which may lead to an overestimation

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or underestimation of the actual content present in the samples.16, 21 Besides, some other

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of the methods published previously either involve relatively complicated synthesis or

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pretreatment steps for the use of isotopically labeled chemical regents.22, 23 Furthermore,

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most of these methods focus scarcely determination of MDA, HHE and HNE in the same

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run, and cannot meet the need of simultaneous routine determination.

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To date, just one published paper reports a method for the simultaneous determination of

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MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil by liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass

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spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).24 However, the measurement method has some drawbacks

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such as the requirement of expensive apparatuses, high testing cost, and insufficient

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precision and reproducibility for HHE and HNE (79‒101% of recoveries with 13‒23%

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coefficient of variation), which seems to suggest that it is not adequate for the routine

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analysis of MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil. Therefore, based on the deficiency and

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need as described above, the present study aims to develop a rapid and expedient

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reserved-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the

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simultaneous

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4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) as derivatization reagent (The derivatization reactions

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are shown in Figure 1) in vegetable oil. The proposed method is used to assess the

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formation of toxic aldehydes MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil. Furthermore, MDA,

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HHE, and HNE are analyzed in five types of commercial vegetable oils, that is, palm oil

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(PO), corn oil (CO), rapeseed oil (RO), camellia oil (CLO), and linseed oil (LO), which are

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treated by accelerated oxidation test at 60 and 180 °C.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

routine

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MDA,

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HNE

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Materials and Chemicals. PO was donated by Yihai Kerry (Tianjin) Investment Co., Ltd.

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(Tianjin, China), and it was from Malaysia. CO was purchased from Yihai (Guangzhou) Oils

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and Grains Industrial Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou, China). RO was obtained from Dongguan

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Fuzhiyuan Feedstuff Protein Development Co., Ltd. (Dongguan, China). CLO was

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purchased from Yongxing Taiyu Camellia Oil Co., Ltd. (Chenzhou, China). LO was friendly

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supplied by Gansu A Best Bio-Technology Co., Ltd. (Jinchang, China). All vegetable oils

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used in this study had been fully refined and were freshly prepared. They contained no

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exogenous antioxidants.

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1, 1, 3, 3-Tetraethoxypropane (TEP), trichloroacetic acid (TCA), butylated hydroxytoluene

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(BHT), and DNPH (97%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). Stock

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solutions of HHE and HNE in ethanol (10 mg/mL) were obtained from Cayman Chemicals

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(Ann Arbor, MI), which both were stored at ‒80 °C. HPLC grade methanol (CH3OH) and

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acetonitrile (CH3CN) were purchased from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). Dichloromethane

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and ethanol were purchased from Aladdin (Shanghai, China). Ultrapure water (>18 MΩ/cm)

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was obtained from reverse osmosis purification system (Chongqing, China).

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Preparation of MDA, HHE, and HNE Standard Solution. As mentioned above,

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standard stock solutions of HHE and HNE were directly obtained from the reagent company.

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For MDA, 10 mg/mL of stock solution was obtained by hydrolysis of TEP in 5% (v/v) of TCA

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solution. All stock solutions were stored for maximum eight weeks at 0 °C. Before use,

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standard working solutions of various concentrations (0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 µg

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mL-1 for MDA, 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 µg mL-1 for HNE, and 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2,

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3, 4 µg mL-1 for HNE) were prepared by diluting appropriate amounts of stock solutions in

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ethanol/water 50:50 (v/v).

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Preparation of French Fries Sample. Fresh oils were used for frying French fries. After

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the tested vegetable oils were heated at 180 °C for 5 h in an experimental fryer (Lecon co.

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Foshan, China), about twenty grams of raw potato sticks (about 5.0 × 1.0 × 1.0 cm )

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purchased from the local fast food restaurant were added into the oils and fried for 10 min.

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Subsequently, the French fries were taken out, cooled, and then placed on the filter paper

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to remove the oil on the surface. The French fries were minced and stored at ‒18 °C until

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further use. Vegetable oils after frying French fries were transferred into glass bottles, then

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sealed and stored at -18 °C until further use, too.

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Sample Preparation (See Figure 2). The oil in French fries sample was extracted

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according to the previous report.25 Subsequently, two grams of oil was weighted and mixed

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with 2.5% (w/v) of TCA, 0.1% (w/v) of BHT, and DNPH reagent (0.05 M in ethanol/HCl 12 M

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9:1 (v/v)) prepared by slightly adapting the methods from Fenaille et al.26 The tube was

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vortexed for 1 min and then stood overnight at room temperature. The DNPH derivatives

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were extracted from the oil by ethanol/water mixture and centrifuged at 5000 g for 5 min on

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a ST 16R centrifuge from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA). The supernatant was

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transferred into another tube. The same procedure was performed in duplicate, and

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supernatants from both extracts were combined. Subsequently, the DNPH derivatives were

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re-extracted by dichloromethane, and this extraction procedure was also repeated two

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times. The combined extracts were removed by blowing N2 gas to remove dichloromethane.

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Then the concentrated solution was reconstituted by acetonitrile to 10 mL, and vortexed for

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2 min for the homogeneous mixing. 100 µL aliquots were filtered by 0.45 µm Nylon66

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disposable needle filter purchased from Troody (Shanghai, China). Three parallel tests

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were carried out. The derivatization process of MDA, HHE and HNE standard solutions was

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the same as that of oil sample above.

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Analysis of MDA, HHE, and HNE. Separation and detection of MDA-, HHE-, and

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HNE-DNPH derivatives were performed using a Dionex P680 HPLC system (Dionex,

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Sunnyvale), which equipped with ASI-100 Automated Sample injector (Dionex, Sunnyvale),

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Thermostatted column compartment TCC-100 (Dionex, Sunnyvale), and PDA-100

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Photodiode Array Detector (PDA) (Dionex, Sunnyvale). Separation was achieved on a

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ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column (4.6×250 mm, 5 µm) from Agilent Technologies (Santa

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Clara, California). The detector model was dual-channel detection mode. The wavelength

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of UV-VIS-1 was set at 310 nm for MDA-DNPH, and the wavelength of UV-VIS-2 was set at

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378 nm for HHE-DNPH and HNE-DNPH. The flow rate was 1.0 mL/min, and the column

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temperature was set at 30 °C. The injection volume was 10 µL. The mobile phase was

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acetonitrile (solvent A) and water (solvent B). The gradient elution conditions were 45%

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solvent A for the first 18 min, linear gradient from 45% solvent A to 70% in 5 min, and then

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isocratic at 70% solvent A for 15 min. Three parallel samples were set up for each injection.

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MDA, HHE, and HNE was finally quantified with the respective external standard curve.

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The peak area was calculated using Chromeleon 7 software (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA).

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The concentration of MDA, HHE and HNE was expressed as µg/g. Data were presented as

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mean value of triplicates with standard deviation (SD) in the result report.

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Linearity, Limit of Detection (LOD), and Limit of quantification (LOQ). Calibration

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curve (peak area versus concentration) of each tested aldehyde was built by plotting the

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known concentrations of MDA (0.02‒10 µg/mL), HHE (0.02‒4.00 µg/mL), and HNE (0.03‒

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4.00 µg/mL) against the corresponding peak area and fitting the data with linear equation.

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LOD and LOQ under the chromatographic conditions were calculated at signal-to-noise

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ratios of 3 and 10, respectively.

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Recovery. Recovery of the method was respectively evaluated by the RO samples (n=6)

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and French fries samples spiked with known amounts of MDA (2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 µg/g oil),

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HHE (0.4, 0.5, and 0.6 µg/g oil) and HNE (1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 µg/g oil) standards. The

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amounts of MDA, HHE and HNE was determined in triplicate in each case.

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Matrix Effects. Matrix effects were evaluated by comparing the slopes of calibration

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curves (ksolvent) by external standard method as shown in Linearity, Limit of Detection (LOD),

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and Limit of quantitation (LOQ) section and standard addition calibration curves (kmatrix) by

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spiking the blank oil matrices with the known amounts of MDA (1.0‒10.0 µg/g), HHE (0.1‒

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1.0 µg/g), and HNE (0.2‒2.0 µg/g). The matrix factor (Mf) was calculated by the following

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Accelerated Oxidation Test. Accelerated oxidation tests of PO, CO, RO, CLO, and LO

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were performed based on schaal oven test and simulated frying process. Briefly, about 5

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mL of fresh oil was added into 10 mL glass bottles, kept open and heated at 60 °C for up to

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30 days or 180 °C for 5 h in a ventilated oven (Shanghai Keelrein instruments Co., Ltd.,

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Shanghai, China) at normal atmospheric pressure. The oil during schaal oven test was

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sampled periodically and cooled rapid to room temperature in ice bath, and then stored at –

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18 °C until analysis. Three parallel samples were set up for all the experimental oils.

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Statistical Analysis. For each standard/sample, all MDA, HHE and HNE determinations

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were done in triplicate, and data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD).

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Statistical analyses were performed with Origin 2016 (OriginLab Corporation, Northampton,

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MA, USA).

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Optimization of the HPLC Conditions. The derivatization reaction of MDA, HHE, and

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HNE with DNPH occurs at room temperature, which can therefore inhibit the possible

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formation of aldehydes during sample pretreatment and avoid the overestimation of

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analysis results. Conversely, the traditional derivative, TBA assay occurs at about 100 °C

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and is not specific for aldehydes,16 leading to the wide result of aldehyde determination in

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various experimental conditions. To our knowledge, the second oxidative products resulting

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from vegetable oil oxidation consist of many aldehydes, such as alkanals, alkenals,

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oxygenated saturated aldehydes, and oxygenated α, β-unsaturated aldehydes, etc.,27

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which all exists in heat-oxidized vegetable oil and can also react with DNPH. Thus, to

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obtain the baseline separation of MDA-, HHE-, and HNE-DNPH derivatives with the

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separation factors of over 1.5, acetonitrile and water were used as the mobile phase for the

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ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column. According to the peak shapes of standard solutions

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(Figure 3B), the present study did not add the acetic acid, phosphoric acid, or

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tetrahydrofuran into the mobile phase, which was different to the method reported

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previously about the separated determination the determination of MDA or HHE/ HNE.25, 28,

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respectively, for the best separation and highest resolution for the three aldehydes. Due to

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the difference of functional group between MDA and HHE/HNE, the characteristic

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absorption wavelengths were 310 nm for MDA-DNPH derivative and 378 nm for

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HHE/HNE-DNPH derivative. Under these HPLC conditions, MDA-, HHE-, and HNE-DNPH

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derivatives were well separated (Figure 3C). After the optimization of gradient eluted mobile

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phase, a single run of these three aldehydes could finish in 30 min and the retention time

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was 9.88, 16.31, and 29.16 min, respectively (Figure 3B).

The column temperature and flow rate were optimal at 30 °C and 1.0 mL/min,

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Optimization of the Sample Pretreatment. Effect of Extraction solvent system. Due to

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the great difference in functional group of MDA and HHE/HNE, extraction solvent system is

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an important factor influencing the simultaneous analysis of these three aldehydes.

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Therefore, to achieve the coextraction of MDA-, HHE-, and HNE-DNPH derivatives from oil

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sample, different proportions of ethanol and water from 40:60 to 60:40 (v/v) were evaluated.

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The results were listed in Table 1. Obviously, the coextraction of these three

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aldehyde-DNPH derivatives was obtained with the solvent system of 50:50 ethanol/water,

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which was used in the subsequent experiment.

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Effect of BHT Addition. Based on the previous report that MDA, HHE, and HHE are

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formed during oil peroxidation due to the decomposition of unsaturated fatty acid,

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especially long-chain unsaturated fatty acid.4,

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pretreatment process or chromatographic analysis, that will lead to the extra formation of

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target aldehydes and thus the overestimation of the analysis results. Therefore, to enhance

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the accuracy of the developed method, the addition of BHT in different types of vegetable

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oil samples for the inhibition of oil oxidation was evaluated by using no BHT addition as

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control during sample pretreatment process.

If oil oxidation occurs in sample

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Figure 4 showed the comparison of peak area of MDA-, HHE-, and HNE-DNPH

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derivatives in PO, CO, RO, CLO, and LO with BHT addition and no BHT addition in sample

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pretreatment. From Figure 4A, BHT addition or not in sample pretreatment did not affect the

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determination of target aldehydes in different types of vegetable oil except LO. LO consists

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of relatively higher content of polyunsaturated fatty acid (>70%) and thus is readily oxidized

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to generate MDA.31 Similarly, when BHT was added into LO in sample pretreatment, the

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peak area of HHE-DNPH derivative decreased significantly compared to the sample with

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no BHT addition, suggesting that the precursor of HHE formation might exist in LO but not

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in PO, CO, and CLO for no detectable HHE (Figure 4B). However, for HNE, only CO with

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BHT addition in sample pretreatment presented significant difference with control in peak

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area (Figure 4B), which was possibly due to the high content of linoleic acid in CO. It has

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been identified that HNE and HHE are formed from the oxidation of ω-6 and ω-3

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polyunsaturated fatty acid, respectively.32 Consequently, the addition of BHT is necessary

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for the simultaneous determination of MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil with high

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amount of polyunsaturated fatty acid, such as CO, LO, etc.

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Effect of TCA Addition. It has been well known that MDA, HHE, and HNE are highly

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reactive and can react with amino groups in proteins, nucleic acid, and phospholipids to

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form the corresponding bound aldehydes, which is not able to be determined directly. Thus,

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if the determined sample possesses certain amounts of compounds with amino groups, the

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free aldehyde release treatment that converts bound aldehydes into free form is needful for

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the accurate determination of total target aldehydes. As far as we know, TCA has been well

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used to precipitate proteins and release bound aldehydes in food and biological samples.21,

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TCA addition in sample pretreatment on MDA, HHE, and HNE analysis in heated RO, frying

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RO, and RO extracted from French fries (Figure 5). Figure 5A and 5B indicated that TCA

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addition did not affect the analysis results of the target aldehydes in heating RO and frying

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RO with only few proteins. Generally, there are very few amino compounds in vegetable oil,

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suggesting the absence of bound aldehydes during sample pretreatment process, which

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accounts for this phenomenon in Figure 5A and 5B. However, TCA addition in sample

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pretreatment improved the MDA determination in RO extracted from French fries, which

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was possibly due to a certain amount of proteins in potato leading to the presence of bound

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aldehydes in extracted oil. However, compared with MDA level, the HHE and HNE levels

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were far lower, which are thus not enough to react with small amount of proteins.

Therefore, to verify this above hypothesis, the present study investigated the effect of

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Method Validation. Matrix Effects. Matrix effects of the developed method above were

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evaluated by comparing the slopes of external standard (ksolvent) and standard addition

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calibration curve (kmatrix), which was constructed by the pure aldehydes added in

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ethanol/water mixtures and different blank oil matrices (five kinds of vegetable oils and the

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French fries), respectively. kmatrix= ksolvent, that is, the matrix factor (kmatrix/ksolvent) = 1

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represents that there is no matrix effect. The signal enhancement occurs if the matrix factor

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is > 1, and conversely, the signal suppression occurs if the matrix factor is < 1. As shown in

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Table 2, the matrix factors of MDA, HHE, and HNE in PO and RO matrix samples were

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found to be close to 1, which indicated that matrix effect did not existed in PO and RO. In

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CLO and French fries matrix samples, the signals of these three aldehydes were

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suppressed as their matrix factor ranged from 0.86‒0.91 and 0.75‒0.86, respectively, which

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indicated that CLO and French fries samples presented a statistically significant matrix

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effect for MDA, HHE, and HNE (P < 0.05). Additionally, HHE was enhanced remarkably in

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CO and LO matrix samples as the matrix factors were 1.13 and 1.21, respectively, but MDA

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and HNE were not influenced by matrix effects. Consequently, to reduce the matrix effects

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for some matrix samples, such as CO, CLO, LO, etc., matrix-matched calibration curves

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were built for the accurate determination of the target aldehydes.

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Linearity, LOD, and LOQ. The linearity in the present study was evaluated without an oil

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matrix for the varied matrix effects in different oil types. The linearity of the proposed

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method under the optimal conditions was tested from 0 to 10 µg/mL for MDA and from 0 to

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4 µg/mL for HHE and HNE with respective eight levels. As shown in Table 3, good linearity

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of these three aldehydes was obtained in the concentration range of 0.02 ‒ 10.00 µg/mL for

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MDA, 0.02 ‒ 4.00 µg/mL for HHE, and 0.02 ‒ 4.00 µg/mL for HNE, and the correlation

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coefficients (R2) were all better than 0.999, which was higher than that of the previous

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report that is the first time to simultaneously determine these three aldehydes by

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LC-MS/MS.23 The LOD and LOQ, calculated at the signal-to-noise of 3 and 10, respectively,

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were below 0.012 and 0.020 µg/mL for MDA, below 0.009 and 0.020 µg/mL for HHE, and

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below 0.014 and 0.030 µg/mL for HNE, which were lower than those of Douny et al.24

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Recovery and Precision. The recoveries of MDA, HHE, and HNE determination were

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measured by spiking unoxidized blank RO and French fries samples with these three

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aldehyde standards at three different levels (2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 µg/g for MDA, 0.4, 0.5, and

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0.6 µg/g, and 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 µg/g for HNE). The recovery values and RSDs were

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recorded in Table 4. In RO, the average recovery values for MDA, HHE, and HNE were in

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the range of 99.64‒102.18%, 102.34‒104.61%, and 98.87‒103.04%, with the RSD less

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than 0.53, 1.53, and 0.66%, respectively. In French fries, the average recovery values for

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MDA, HHE, and HNE were in the range of 96.38–98.05%, 96.1‒101.34%, and 96.86‒

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99.04%, with the RSD less than 0.61, 0.55, and 0.87%, respectively. The results indicated

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that the proposed RP-HPLC method could be applied to the simultaneous determination of

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MDA, HHE, and HNE in thermally oxidized vegetable oil.

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Analysis of MDA, HHE, and HNE Contents in Vegetable Oil during Accelerated

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Oxidation Test at 60 °C. According to the proposed RP-HPLC method above, the contents

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of MDA, HHE, and HNE in PO, CO, RO, CLO, and LO during accelerated oxidation test at

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60 °C were determined. The results were shown in Figure 6. From Figure 6A, MDA

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contents in five types of vegetable oils used in this study increased with the increasing

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treatment time at 60 °C. Moreover, the increasing rates in RO and LO were higher than that

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in other vegetable oils, which might be due to the relative higher degree of unsaturation in

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RO and LO. It has been well known that MDA is formed from the decomposition of

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unsaturated fatty acids, particularly long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid.30, 34 MDA level

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was up to 2.92 and 4.23 µg/g in RO and LO, respectively, stored at 60 °C for 30 days. As

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well, with the increase of treatment time, HHE contents also increased in RO and LO, but

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were not detected in PO, CO, and CLO (Figure 6B), which was attributed to the fact that

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HHE was formed from the oxidation of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, especially linolenic

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acid. Only very small levels of linolenic acids exist in PO, CO, and CLO, which accounts for

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the absence of HHE in them. Also, it was well understood that LO with high levels of

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linolenic acids exhibited a sharp increase of HHE contents during accelerated oxidation test,

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which was consistent with the earlier report.24 For HNE, with the increase of treatment time

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in the first 12 days, HNE levels increased gradually in five types of vegetable oils. However,

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after 12 days of oxidation treatment, HNE levels presented a sudden increase in LO.

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Similar phenomenon also occurred in CO and RO after day 17, and HNE levels were up to

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3.70 and 1.70 µg/g at day 30, respectively.

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Although nowadays no exposure limiting regulation about MDA, HHE, and HNE contents

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in food is available, their potential toxicity to humans in biological systems has been

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identified.35, 36 Therefore, to reduce the uptake of MDA, HHE, and HNE from vegetable oil, it

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is essential to protect the oils and fats from oxidation or to keep a short storage time before

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further use of oils and fats. In our following work, a mathematical model will be developed

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for the further description of the relationship between MDA, HHE, and HNE formation and

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oil oxidation to predict their contents in vegetable oil, and then more fully assess the quality

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Analysis of MDA, HHE, and HNE Contents in Vegetable Oil at Frying Temperature.

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To confirm the accuracy of the proposed method above, five types of vegetable oils were

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heated at 180 °C for 5 h. It was observed that MDA, HHE, and HNE in all original oils were

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not detected, which might be attributed to the nonoccurrence of oil oxidation and thus the

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non-formation of these three aldehydes. However, when these commercial vegetable oils

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were heated at 180 °C for 5 h, MDA and HNE were detected in all tested vegetable oils,

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while HHE was detected in RO and LO (Table 5). As mentioned above, small levels of

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precursors of HHE, mainly linolenic acid, were not detected in PO, CO, and CLO, which

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thus accounted for the absence of these three aldehydes in spite of high temperature

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exposure. Additionally, compared with MDA, HHE, and HNE contents in vegetable oil

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treated at 60 °C (Figure 6), the contents of the tested aldehydes were significantly higher in

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corresponding vegetable oil treated at frying temperature (Table 5), which suggested that

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MDA, HHE, and HNE levels might be used as the new evaluation indexes for the quality of

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frying oil. Thus, in future the further research should focus on the inhibition and elimination

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of MDA, HHE and HNE in frying oil.

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In conclusion, the present study developed for the first time the simultaneous

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determination method of MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil by RP-HPLC. Due to the

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great oxidative sensitivity of unsaturated fatty acid, the sample pretreatment process could

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be as simplified as possible. The extraction conditions, such as coextraction solvent system,

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BHT addition, and TCA addition, were optimized in order to obtain satisfactory extraction

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performance. Compared with the LC-MS/MS method reported previously, the RP-HPLC

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method can reduce the testing cost and analyze rapidly and accurately the contents of

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MDA, HHE, and HNE in vegetable oil, including heat-oxidized oil and frying oil. The method

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possessed minimal sample preparation, low LOD and LOQ, and good linearity and

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reproducibility, which can be used for the simultaneous routine analysis of MDA, HHE and

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HNE in vegetable oil.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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*Tel: 8620-8711-4262. Fax: 8620-8711-3875. E-mail: [email protected].

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Funding

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The work was financed by the National Key Research and Development Program of

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China (Project No. 2016YFD0400401‒5), the National Natural Science Fund of China

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(Project Nos. 31771895, 31471677, 31271885), the National Hi-tech Research and

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Development Project of China (Project No. 2013AA102103), the Public Welfare (Agriculture)

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Research Project (Project No. 201303072), the Fundamental Research Funds for the

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Central Universities of China, and Guangdong Province Laboratory for Green Processing

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of Natural Products and Product Safety.

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Notes

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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ABBREVIATIONS USED

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MDA, malondialdehyde; HHE, 4-hydroxy-2-hexenal; HNE, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal; DNPH, 2,

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4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, TCA, trichloroacetic acid; BHT, butylated hydroxytoluene; PO,

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palm oil; CO, corn oil; RO, rapeseed oil; CLO, camellia oil; LO, linseed oil; PUFA,

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polyunsaturated

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chromatography; LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantification; RSD, relative

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standard deviation.

fatty

acid;

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Figure 1. Scheme of derivatization reaction of MDA, HHE, and HNE with 2, 4-DNPH.

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Figure 2. Analytical scheme for the simultaneous determination of MDA, HHE, and HNE in

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vegetable oil

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Figure 3. HPLC chromatograms of DNPH solution (A), standard solution spiked with MDA,

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HHE, and HNE at the concentrations of 5, 2, and 2 µg/g, respectively (B), and heat-oxidized

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linseed oil sample (C). Analysis conditions: the mobile phase was acetonitrile (solvent A)

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and water (solvent B); the gradient elution conditions were 45% solvent A for the first 18

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min, linear gradient from 45% solvent A to 70% in 5 min, and then isocratic at 70% solvent A

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column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 µm, Agilent); the column temperature was set at 30 °C; the

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injection volume was 10 µL; the dual detection wavelengths were 310 nm for MDA and 378

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nm for HHE and HNE.

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Figure 4. Influence of BHT addition in sample pretreatment on MDA (A), HHE (B), and HNE

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(C) analysis in palm oil (PO), corn oil (CO), rapeseed oil (RO), camellia oil (CLO), and

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linseed oil (LO). Different letters in the same vegetable oil denote significant difference

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between data (P < 0.05).

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Figure 5. Influence of TCA addition in sample pretreatment on MDA, HHE, and HNE

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analysis in heated RO (A), frying RO (B), and RO extracted from French fries (C). The

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heating and frying temperature were set at 180 °C in this research. Values labeled by

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different letters for each aldehyde were significantly different (P < 0.05).

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Figure 6. Evolution of MDA (A), HHE (B), and HNE (C) Contents in Five Types of Vegetable

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Table 1. Solvent systems used for the extraction of aldehyde-DNPH derivativesa ethanol/water 40:60 MDA HHE HNE

*

ethanol/water 45:55

ethanol/water 50:50

ethanol/water 55:45

ethanol/water 60:40

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* *

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a

The presence of each aldehyde-DNPH derivative under different solvent systems was indicated by an asterisk (*).

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Table 2. Matrix Effects (kmatrix / ksolvent) of MDA, HHE, and HNE in Five Types of vegetable oils and French fries

MDA HHE HNE

PO

R2

CO

R2

RO

R2

CLO

R2

LO

R2

French friesa

R2

0.96 0.95 0.97

0.997 0.993 0.992

0.98 1.13* 1.03

0.992 0.994 0.989

0.96 1.03 0.98

0.992 0.993 0.995

0.86* 0.87* 0.91*

0.995 0.992 0.987

1.12 1.21* 0.97

0.995 0.992 0.988

0.86* 0.75* 0.79*

0.997 0.992 0.991

a

The potato sticks were fried in RO. *Statistically significant difference between matrix slope (kmatrix) and solvent slope (ksolvent) (P < 0.05). PO, palm oil; CO, corn oil; RO, rapeseed oil; CLO, camellia oil; LO, linseed oil.

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Table 3. Linear Ranges, Regression Equations, Coefficients, and Detection Limits (LOD and LOQ) of the Proposed Method Standard curve

Analyte

Linearity (µg/mL)

LOD (µg/mL)

Linear equation

R

LOQ (µg/mL)

MDA HHE

0.02 ‒ 10.00 0.02 ‒ 4.00

y = 0.5265x ‒ 0.0391 y = 0.3269x + 0.0130

0.9991 0.9996

0.012 0.009

0.020 0.020

HNE

0.03 ‒ 4.00

y = 0.0926x + 0.0038

0.9992

0.014

0.030

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Table 4. Recoveries and Precision of the Spiked MDA, HHE, or HNE from RO and French fries Determined by RP-HPLCa MDA Sample

RO

French fries

HHE

added (µg/g)

recovery (%)

RSD (%)

added (µg/g)

2.0 3.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

102.18±0.47b 99.64±0.53 101.16±0.36 97.64±0.39 96.38±0.59 98.05±0.34

0.46 0.53 0.36 0.40 0.61 0.35

0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.6

HNE

recovery (%)

RSD (%)

added (µg/g)

102.34±0.43 104.61±0.51 103.58±0.37 98.25±0.54 101.34±0.49 96.19±1.16

0.88 1.53 1.14 0.55 0.48 0.12

1.4 1.7 2.0 1.4 1.7 2.0

a

recovery (%)

RSD (%)

101.34±0.52 103.04±0.38 98.87±0.62 96.86±1.03 98.51±0.86 99.04±0.61

0.44 0.38 0.66 0.10 0.87 0.62

Analysis conditions: the mobile phase was acetonitrile (solvent A) and water (solvent B); the gradient elution conditions were 45% solvent A for the first 18 min, linear gradient from 45% solvent A to 70% in 5 min, and then isocratic at 70% solvent A for 15 min; the flow rate was 1.0 mL/min; the column was ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 µm, Agilent); the column temperature was set at 30 °C; the injection volume was 10 µL; the dual detection wavelengths were 310 nm for MDA and 378 nm for HHE and HNE. bMean ± SD.

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Table 5. Contents of MDA, HHE, and HNE in Five Types of Vegetable Oils Heated at Frying Temperature (180 °C) for 5 h. Oil sample PO CO RO CLO LO a

MDA (µg/g oil) 2.04 ± 0.12a 2.24 ± 0.08 3.24 ± 0.14 1.83 ± 0.15 5.83 ± 0.24

HHE (µg/g oil)

HNE (µg/g oil)

NDb ND 2.23 ± 0.15 ND 5.96 ± 0.27

1.51 ± 0.15 4.78 ± 0.18 2.71 ± 0.13 1.40 ± 0.11 2.80 ± 0.23

Mean value of triplicate determination ± SD; bnot detected.

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