Identification and Quantification of Plant Extracts Using Automated Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

compounds, botanical extracts are key ingredients in nutraceuticals and personal care products. Driven by consumers’ desire to adopt healthier lifestyles, these billion dollar industries continue to grow, with nutraceuticals alone expected to reach $204.9 billion by 2017.1 Often the beneficial claims depend on specific compounds of the extract, thus there is great demand and need to ensure the purity and identity of extracts. NMR spectroscopy is a highly reproducible, automatable technique ideally suited to this task.