Development of Green UV-Vis Method for Direct Determination of Total Sugars in the Aqueous Extract of Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter) Grains and Other Cereals

Table 2

Recovery results of total sugars determined by the newly developed green UV-VIS method.

Variety of samples	Trial	Amount of total sugar in the sample before spiking (mg/L)	Amount of sucrose spiked (mg/L)	Amount of total sugars found after spiking (mg/L)	Recovery (%)	Mean recovery (%)
White teff	1	672.50	107.6	762.89	83.7	86 ± 2
	2	690.63	107.6	784.24	86.7
Brown teff	1	604.52	107.6	713.56	100.96	105 ± 4
	2	617.61	107.6	733.50	107.31
Red wheat	1	240.5	96.2	276.6	93.8	95 ± 2
	2	245.5	96.2	282.7	96.6
White rice	1	269.6	96.2	301.6	83.1	85 ± 3
	2	270.5	96.2	303.9	86.8