Usefulness of catechins and caffeine profiles to determine growing areas of green tea leaves of a single variety, Yabukita, in Japan

Journal of Health Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 491-495

  Kodama, Shuji ^a   Ito, Yuji ^b   Nagase, Hirofumi ^a   Yamashita, Tomohisa ^a   Kemmei, Tomoko ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^c   Hayakawa, Kazuichi ^d  

^a TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^c CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary electrophoresis; Catechin; Geographic origin; Green tea; Linear discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

6 O ALPHA DEXTRO GLUCOSYL BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; BETA CYCLODEXTRIN DERIVATIVE; CAFFEINE; CATECHIN; CATECHIN GALLATE; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; MICELLAR ELECTROKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; TEA;

EID: 34547610432     PISSN: 13449702     EISSN: 13475207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1248/jhs.53.491     Document Type: Article

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