1 WATERS SOLUTIONS ACQUITY UPLC ® H-Class System ACQUITY QDa Detector ACQUITY UPLC BEH Amide Column Sep-Pak ® C 18 Cartridge KEY WORDS QDa, milk, infant formula, sugar, carbohydrate, maltose, lactose, fructose, glucose, sucrose, myo-inositol, monosaccharide APPLICATION BENEFITS ■ ■ The ACQUITY QDa™ Detector provides improved analytical selectivity by combining both retention time and mass analysis for compound identification. ■ ■ Information-rich data from different sugars and sugar alcohols present in food products. ■ ■ The ACQUITY QDa Detector provides complementary detection to Refractive Index (RI) or Evaporative Light Scattering (ELS) detectors that are commonly employed for carbohydrate analysis. INTRODUCTION Sugars and sugar alcohols (or sugar polyols) are classes of carbohydrates that are natural constituents of foods and provide important nutritional benefits. Some sugars are added to processed foods in order to enhance flavor or to mimic fresh food products. With the increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes across the developed world, the need to better monitor sugar intake has grown in recent years. Consequently there are now requirements to provide accurate information about sugar content on food product labels in order to comply with increasingly stringent regulatory demands. The analysis of sugars and sugar alcohols is challenging because they lack chromophores within their compound structures, and because of the close similarity between the various molecules, many of which are simply isomers of one another. Due to its separation power, accuracy, and speed of analysis, HPLC has become the method of choice for the analysis of sugars. 1,2 HPLC techniques employ RI or ELS detection. RI detection requires careful control of the mobile phase to avoid any changes through the analysis and therefore it requires isocratic elution. With RI detection it is also difficult to change the mobile phase composition from one analysis to the next because the RI detector may require several hours to equilibrate when a different mobile phase composition is introduced. Even when a new batch of the same mobile phase is introduced, small changes can be detected by RI, resulting in baseline variation. ELS detection is more robust for mobile phase composition changes, but ELS often does not meet the sensitivity and selectivity demands for the detection of sugars in complex food matrices. An alternative is the use of a mass detector with electrospray ionization (ESI). The Waters ® ACQUITY QDa Detector offers the opportunity to decrease detection limits as well as the ability to obtain mass spectral information on components in the sample. This combination of chromatographic retention time and mass information can provide improved selectivity for the profiling of sugars and sugar alcohols. The ACQUITY QDa Detector is the only mass detector that has been completely designed to be incorporated with an LC system. It fits in the LC stack, occupying the same amount of space as a PDA detector. Extensive training is not required, so users already familiar with HPLC can quickly take advantage of the improved selectivity and sensitivity that mass detection affords. In this application note we describe the use of the ACQUITY QDa Detector coupled to the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System for the profiling of sugars in milk and infant formulas. Profiling Mono and Disaccharides in Milk and Infant Formula Using the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and ACQUITY QDa Detector Mark E. Benvenuti, Dimple Shah, and Jennifer A. Burgess Waters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA
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WAT E R S SO LU T IO NS
ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class System
ACQUITY QDa Detector
ACQUITY UPLC BEH Amide Column
Sep-Pak® C18 Cartridge
K E Y W O R D S
QDa, milk, infant formula, sugar,
carbohydrate, maltose, lactose,
fructose, glucose, sucrose,
myo-inositol, monosaccharide
A P P L I C AT IO N B E N E F I T S■■ The ACQUITY QDa™ Detector provides
improved analytical selectivity by
combining both retention time and mass
analysis for compound identification.
■■ Information-rich data from different sugars
and sugar alcohols present in food products.
■■ The ACQUITY QDa Detector provides
complementary detection to Refractive
Index (RI) or Evaporative Light Scattering
(ELS) detectors that are commonly employed
for carbohydrate analysis.
IN T RO DU C T IO N
Sugars and sugar alcohols (or sugar polyols) are classes of carbohydrates that are
natural constituents of foods and provide important nutritional benefits. Some
sugars are added to processed foods in order to enhance flavor or to mimic fresh
food products. With the increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes across the
developed world, the need to better monitor sugar intake has grown in recent
years. Consequently there are now requirements to provide accurate information
about sugar content on food product labels in order to comply with increasingly
stringent regulatory demands.
The analysis of sugars and sugar alcohols is challenging because they lack
chromophores within their compound structures, and because of the close
similarity between the various molecules, many of which are simply isomers of
one another. Due to its separation power, accuracy, and speed of analysis, HPLC
has become the method of choice for the analysis of sugars.1,2 HPLC techniques
employ RI or ELS detection. RI detection requires careful control of the mobile phase
to avoid any changes through the analysis and therefore it requires isocratic
elution. With RI detection it is also difficult to change the mobile phase composition
from one analysis to the next because the RI detector may require several hours to
equilibrate when a different mobile phase composition is introduced. Even when a
new batch of the same mobile phase is introduced, small changes can be detected by
RI, resulting in baseline variation. ELS detection is more robust for mobile phase
composition changes, but ELS often does not meet the sensitivity and selectivity
demands for the detection of sugars in complex food matrices.
An alternative is the use of a mass detector with electrospray ionization (ESI). The
Waters® ACQUITY QDa Detector offers the opportunity to decrease detection limits
as well as the ability to obtain mass spectral information on components in the
sample. This combination of chromatographic retention time and mass information
can provide improved selectivity for the profiling of sugars and sugar alcohols.
The ACQUITY QDa Detector is the only mass detector that has been completely
designed to be incorporated with an LC system. It fits in the LC stack, occupying
the same amount of space as a PDA detector. Extensive training is not required,
so users already familiar with HPLC can quickly take advantage of the improved
selectivity and sensitivity that mass detection affords. In this application note
we describe the use of the ACQUITY QDa Detector coupled to the ACQUITY UPLC
H-Class System for the profiling of sugars in milk and infant formulas.
Profiling Mono and Disaccharides in Milk and Infant Formula Using the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and ACQUITY QDa DetectorMark E. Benvenuti, Dimple Shah, and Jennifer A. BurgessWaters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA
Figure 1. Chromatogram showing an overlay of multiple SIR channels (m/z 179, 215, 341, and 377) of a 20-ppm mixed standard using an isocratic separation for the analysis of mono- and di-saccharides and sugar alcohols.
4Profiling Mono and Disaccharides in Milk and Infant Formula Using the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and ACQUITY QDa Detector
Myo-inositol is an important sugar alcohol that
is present at high levels in human breast milk.
Myo-inositol is supplemented into infant formula
to ensure that infants are able to receive equivalent
amounts from formula as compared to human
breast milk.5 Using this isocratic method,
myo-inositol shows a partial co-elution with lactose
at approximately 15 minutes. For RI or ELS detection
this would impact the accurate detection of both
lactose and myo-inositol. With mass detection,
however, this did not cause an issue as lactose and
myo-inositol have different molecular weights
which allowed us to assess them separately. This
is demonstrated in Figure 2 where the separate
SIR channels for myo-inositol and lactose are shown.
The separation of maltose and lactose is important
in some foods where lactose-free products are
manufactured as alternatives for consumers with
dairy intolerance or allergies. Maltose is also a
major carbohydrate in soy,6 which is often used as
a dairy substitute in lactose-free products. In order
to determine the presence or absence of lactose, it
must be separated from maltose, which has the same
molecular mass. Therefore, it is the combination of
the complementary selectivities of LC and MS that
enables compound identification. Figure 3 shows
the profiles of lactose and maltose in two different
infant formulas, along with a standard that contains
both lactose and maltose. As the chromatograms
show, lactose was present in the dairy-based infant
formula, with no detectable level of maltose. The
converse was true for the soy-based infant formula,
with no detectable level of lactose.
2B. m/z 179
2A. m/z 377 Sucrose
Maltose Lactose
Myo-inositol
8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0
Figure 2A. SIR chromatogram of m/z 377 showing elution of sucrose, maltose and lactose. 2B. SIR chromatogram of m/z 179 showing the elution of myo-inositol. Because it has a different mass, myo-inositol can still be selectively analyzed using mass detection, even though it partially co-elutes with lactose.
Figure 3. SIR chromatograms of m/z 377 in: A. Sugar standard at 20 ppm; B. Dairy-based powdered infant formula, and C. Soy-based powdered infant formula.
Sucrose
Maltose Lactose
A. Mixed standard
B. Dairy-based infant formula
C. Soy-based infant formula
Lactose
Maltose
Sucrose
8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0
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The analysis of carbohydrates in food samples can be challenging
because of the mix of closely related UV-transparent compounds.
The combination of the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and the
ACQUITY QDa Detector offers scientists the advanced performance
expected of UPLC® separations – high resolution, sensitivity, and
improved throughput, along with a complementary mass detector
to RI and ELS that provides the additional advantages of:
■■ Improved analytical selectivity by combining both retention
time and mass analysis for compound identification.
■■ Detection of UV-transparent molecules using a sensitive
and selective detector.
■■ The ability to discriminate between co-eluting components
using their mass-to-charge ratios.
■■ Reduced burden for method development since the baseline
separation of all components is not required.
■■ The ability to deploy multiple methods on a single system that
can rapidly change between different method conditions.
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