New Method To Estimate Total Polyphenol Excretion: Comparison of Fast Blue BB versus Folin–Ciocalteu Performance in Urine Hinojosa Nogueira, Daniel José Muros Molina, José Joaquín Rufián Henares, José Ángel Pastoriza de la Cueva, Silvia Polyphenols Daily intake Urinary excretion This work was supported by the project AGL2014-53895-R from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Fund for Regional Development. Polyphenols are bioactive substances of vegetal origin with a significant impact on human health. The assessment of polyphenols intake and excretion is therefore important. The Folin-Ciocalteu (F-C) method is the reference assay to measure polyphenols in foods as well as their excretion in urine. However, many substances can influence the method, making it necessary to conduct a prior clean up using solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges. In this paper we demonstrate the use of the Fast Blue BB reagent (FBBB) as a new tool to measure the excretion of polyphenols in urine. Contrary to F-C, FBBB showed no interference in urine, negating the time-consuming and costly SPE clean up. In addition, it showed excellent linearity (r2 = 0.9997) with a recovery of 96.4% and a precision of 1.86-2.11%. The FBBB method was validated to measure the excretion of polyphenols in spot urine samples from Spanish children, showing a good correlation between polyphenols intake and excretion. 2026-01-20T12:21:16Z 2026-01-20T12:21:16Z 2017-05-05 journal article Publisher version: Hinojosa-Nogueira, D., Muros, J., Rufian-Henares, J. A., & Pastoriza, S. (2017). New method to estimate total polyphenol excretion: Comparison of Fast Blue BB versus Folin–Ciocalteu performance in urine. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 65(20), 4216-4222. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01000 0021-8561 1520-5118 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/109965 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01000 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional American Chemical Society