Content of Coenzyme Q10 in Selected Food Products and in Daily Food Rations

Monika Joanna Turkowicz; Natalia Sleszynska; Joanna Karpinska

Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2015

Content of Coenzyme Q10 in Selected Food Products and in Daily Food Rations

Monika Joanna Turkowicz, Natalia Sleszynska, Joanna Karpinska

Abstract :

The article deals with content of coenzyme Q10 in selected food products, such as products intended for particular nutritional use of infants and young children (e.g. meat–based baby foods in jars), milk and dairy products, fish and fish preserves, cereals, meat, chicken eggs, as well as in daily food rations. The applied method employed direct n–hexane extraction and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with DAD detection. In the examined food items, the coenzyme Q10 content ranged from 1.2 to 10.4 �g/g in meat, from 0.8 to 27.9 in daily food ratios, up to 545 �g/g in fish and fish–containing products, up to 38.0 �g/g in cereal products. The estimated average daily intakes coenzyme Q10 calculated from our results and statistical data on Polish daily food consumption was 5.4 mg.