Colorimetric LAMP microfluidic chip for detecting three allergens: peanut, sesame and soybean

Food allergies can greatly harm people’s health, and therefore detecting allergens in foods is extremely important. By integrating loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) with a microfluidic chip, we have developed a method for detecting the allergen genes of peanut (Arachis hypogaea), sesame (Sesamum indicum), and soybean (Glycine max) using a colorimetric method suitable for the naked eye, known as the colorimetric LAMP microfluidic chip. In the presence of peanut, sesame, or soybean in the samples, the corresponding reaction well of the microfluidic chip will appear pink, or otherwise remain light brown. This method of detection is specific and can easily distinguish these three allergens from others in foods. The detection limit for peanut, sesame and soybean allergens was 0.4 ng/μL using the LAMP-microfluidic chip. The accuracy of this novel and rapid method was validated using allergenic foods obtained commercially and was comparable with that of the typical TaqMan real-time PCR method.

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