“…Therefore, the investigation and determination of caffeine not only have clinical significances, but also can give beneficial guidance to people's health and life. Thus different methods have been developed for the determination of caffeine and its analog currently [6], such as spectrophotometry [7][8][9], RP-TLC [10], LC-ESI-MS [11], gas chromatography [12], high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [13,14], capillary gas chromatography and capillary electrophoresis [15,16]. Nevertheless, some of these methods, such as the chromatographic methods are time-consuming, expensive, and need complicated preconcentration or multisolvent extraction as well as trained technicians.…”