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Quantitation of capsiate and dihydrocapsiate and tentative identification of minor capsinoids in pepper fruits (Capsicum spp.) by HPLC-ESI-MS/MS(QTOF).

Publicated to:Food Chemistry. 270 264-272 - 2019-01-01 270(), DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.07.112

Authors: Fayos, Oreto; Saviron, Maria; Orduna, Jesus; Barbero, Gerardo F; Mallor, Cristina; Garces-Claver, Ana

Affiliations

Departamento de Química Analítica. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (CeiA3). IVAGRO. Campus Universitario del Río San Pedro, P.O. Box 40, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain. Electronic address: gerardo.fernandez@uca.es. - Author
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA-CEQMA), Facultad de Ciencias, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: jorduna@unizar.es. - Author
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA-CEQMA), Facultad de Ciencias, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: msaviron@unizar.es. - Author
Unidad de Hortofruticultura, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón - IA2 (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza), Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: agarces@cita-aragon.es. - Author
Unidad de Hortofruticultura, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón - IA2 (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza), Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: cmallor@cita-aragon.es. - Author
Unidad de Hortofruticultura, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón - IA2 (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza), Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: ofayos@cita-aragon.es. - Author
Univ Cadiz, Campus Excelencia Int Agroalimentario CeiA3, IVAGRO, Dept Quim Analit,Fac Ciencias, Campus Univ Rio San Pedro,POB 40, Puerto Real 11510, Cadiz, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, CEQMA, ICMA, Fac Ciencias,CSIC, C Pedro Cerbuna 12, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon, Unidad Hortofruticultura, IA2,CITA, Avda Montanana 930, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author
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Abstract

A highly sensitive, selective method has been developed and validated for determination of capsiate and dihydrocapsiate for the first time using HPLC-ESI/MS(QTOF). For both capsinoids, LODs and LOQs were 0.02 and 0.05 µmol/l, respectively. The intra- and interday repeatability values (RSD %) were 0.26-0.41% for retention time, and 2.25-2.11% for peak area. Recoveries were up to 98% and 97% for capsiate and dihydrocapsiate, respectively. This method was successfully applied to quantify capsiate and dihydrocapsiate in eight pepper fruit accessions. Capsinoids were found in the range of 1.21-544.59 μg/g DW for capsiate and of 0.61-81.95 μg/g DW for dihydrocapsiate. In the 'Tabasco' accession, capsiate and dihydrocapsiate were quantified for the first time, ranging from 3.09 to 58.76 and 1.80 to 6.94 μg/g DW, respectively. Additionally, the ESI-MS/MS(QTOF) analysis has allowed the tentative identification of two other minor capsinoids by exact mass and fragmentation pattern, in the 'Bhut Jolokia' accession.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

CapsaicinCapsiateCapsiate (pubchem cid: 9839519)CapsicumCapsinoidsChromatography, high pressure liquidDihydrocapsiateDihydrocapsiate (pubchem cid: 9873754)Fragmentation patternFruitLiquid chromatographyMass spectrometryTandem mass spectrometry

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Food Chemistry due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position 6/139, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Food Science & Technology. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 2.85 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-09, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 24
  • Scopus: 26
  • Europe PMC: 5
  • Google Scholar: 26

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-09:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 53.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 54 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.25.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Fayos Avellán, Oreto) and Last Author (Garcés Claver, Ana Belén).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Garcés Claver, Ana Belén.