“…Several instrumental methods have been successfully applied for the determination of MT, including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Muñoz, Ceinos, Soengas & Míguez, 2009;Talebianpoor et al, 2014), ultraviolet spectroscopy (UV) (Amin, Zaky, Khater & El-Beshbeshy, 1999;Surmeian & Aboul-Enein, 1998), fluorescence spectroscopy (Sun, Wu, Wang & Yu, 2013), and electrochemical assays (Cortujo-Antuna, Martinez-Montequin, Fernandez-Abedul & Costa-Garcia, 2003;Qu, Wang, Hu & Cui, 2005). High accuracy and precision are the main advantages of these methods.…”