“…To allow quantitation of maltol at subthreshold concentration, the analytical method has to be highly sensitive, selective, and reliable. Different methods such as gas chromatography−mass spectrometry [Qi & Zhou, 2005], spectrometry [Ni, Wang, & Kokot, 2008], high−performance liquid chromatography [Risner & Kiser, 2008] and two−dimensional liquid chromatography [Avila, Gonzalez, Zougagh, Escarpa, & Rios, 2007] have been reported in the literature, mostly utilizing complex, expensive and time−consuming techniques. Furthermore, many electrochemical methods have previously been developed for the determination of maltol Ma & Chao, 2013;Zhou, Zhang, Li, Li, & Ye, 2012;Di, Bi, & Zhang, 2004], it can be concluded that the sensing layers of electrode are crucial, so more research is still in process.…”