Research Article
Improvement in Analytical Methods for Determination of Sugars in Fermented Alcoholic Beverages
Table 4
Limit of detection and recovery percentage for individual sugars by the HPLC-RI method and for total sugar by the sulfuric acid method.
| S. no. | Sample | Fructose | Glucose | Sucrose | Total sugar | LOD (%, w/w) | Recovery (%) | LOD (%, w/w) | Recovery (%) | LOD (%, w/w) | Recovery (%) | LOD (g/L) | Recovery (%) |
| 1 | Keribo | 0.001 | 106 | 0.002 | 93.2 | 0.002 | 94.3 | 0.009 | 98.2 | 2 | Tej | 0.001 | 89.4 | 0.002 | 109 | 0.002 | 94.2 | 0.009 | 100 | 3 | Tella | 0.001 | 90.3 | 0.002 | 92.4 | 0.002 | 95.1 | 0.009 | 109 |
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