Epicatechin levels in coffee

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Antonia N Phillips, wawsaucy@yahoo.com and Christine E. MacTaylor, christine.mactaylor@salemstate.edu. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970
Coffee is one of the most popular and widely consumed beverages through-out the world due to its pleasant taste and aroma. Due to its high consumptions it is considered by some to be the number one source of antioxidants in the U.S diet today. In this experiment High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) was used to determine the amount epicatechin, an antioxidant, in seven different types of roasted coffees. In this research a comparison is made between different brands as well as between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffees.