The antioxidant properties of cinnamon components have been shown to interfere with the traditional method of measuring glucose with the glucose oxidase-peroxidase test. Interactions of cinnamon components with the first step of glycogenesis, the conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate (G6P), could also be possible. Understanding the possible effects cinnamon components have on this reaction may be important for diabetes research. A chromatographic method has been developed using the Obelisc N anion exchange column with high performance liquid chromatography coupled to conductimetric detection. G6P was monitored when the reaction was carried out in the absence and presence of the following cinnamon components: cinnamyl alcohol, transcinnamic acid, trans cinnamaldehyde, and tannic acid. Interactions between cinnamon and the first step in the glycogenesis pathway will be shown.

Effects of cinnamon components on glycogenesis by anion exchange-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to conductimetric detection

249th National Meeting (2015)

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