Multivariate model for the prediction of soluble condensed tannins in crude extracts of polyphenols from canola and rapeseed hulls

The feasibility of using ultraviolet spectrophotometry to develop multivariate models for prediction of soluble condensed tannins (SCT) content in crude polyphenols extracts from canola and rapeseed hulls was investigated. The polyphenols were extracted from hulls using 70% (vol/vol) aqueous acetone. Partial least squares regression was used to correlate the spectral data of the crude polyphenols in methanol between 265–295 nm with the SCT content in hulls. Both the proanthocyanidin (P) and the vanillin (V) assays were used to provide reference data for creating the models. The predictive ability of the models is good, as indicated by the RPD values [the ratio of the standard deviation of data to the standard error of calibration (SEC) of above 5. Additionally, the SEC values suggest that P is superior to V in predicting the SCT content of hulls using this method.