“…1). Until now a range of analytical methods have already been published for the determination of myo-inositol, D-chiro-inositol or inositol phosphates: microbiological assay (Wood and Stanway, 2001;Ono et al, 2003;Yamakoshi et al, 2003), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) , gas chromatography (GC) , ion chromatography (IC) (Tagliaferri et al, 2000) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) (Bennani and Fabre, 2001). Among these methods, GC requires a time-consuming pre-column derivatization step to increase the volatility of inositol.…”