RELIABLE IDENTIFICATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN FOODSTUFFS THROUGH THE USE OF A NOVEL DUAL-FILTER MASS SPECTRAL LIBRARY IN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY

摘要

In the present work, a novel identification approach was developed for the determination of bioactives in foodstuffs by Liquid Chromatography (LC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). Nonpolar lipids were the analytes of interest, mainly due to their regular LC profile under reversed phase conditions. Marine organisms centralized special attention because of their high content of ω-3 fatty acids, whose nutraceutical activity was widely studied in the last decades.