“…An off‐line ultrafiltration method, in which extracts were mixed and incubated with enzyme, and then compounds combined with enzyme after separation by ultrafiltration were analyzed by HPLC‐ESI‐TOF/MS, was applied to screen α ‐glucosidase inhibitors of guava leaf tea (Wang, Liu, Luo, Huang, & Wu, ). In addition, some on‐line HPLC‐BCD (biochemical detection) methods were developed to fast‐track identification of interesting and/or novel bioactive compounds, such as HPLC‐diode array detector‐1,1‐diphenyl‐2‐picrylhydrazyl/2,2'‐Azinobis‐(3‐ethylbenzthiazoline‐6‐sulphonate) (HPLC‐DAD‐DPPH/ABTS), HPLC‐DAD‐CL (chemiluminiscence) and DPPH‐CE( (capillary electrophoresis))‐DAD analysis of antioxidants (Shi et al, ; Ding et al, ; Chang et al, ; J. Liu, Tian, et al, ), HPLC‐DAD‐UV/FL (fluorescence) and MS analysis of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (de Jong, Derks, Bruyneel, Niessen, & Irth, ; Marques et al, ; Peng et al, ), HPLC‐DAD‐UV analysis of α ‐glucosidase inhibitors (Li, Zhao, Xie, & Li, ; Li, Qian, & Li, ), HPLC‐DAD‐FL analysis of phosphodiesterase and P450 enzyme inhibitors (Kool et al, , ; van Liempd, Kool, Meerman, Irth, & Vermeulen, ), HPLC‐MS analysis of angiotensin‐I converting enzyme inhibitors and the receptor affinity (de Boer et al, ; Reinen, Kool, & Vermeulen, ; van Elswijk et al, ; van Elswijk, Schobel, Lansky, Irth, & van der Greef, ). These methods were effective strategies for screening bioactive compounds.…”