Cardamonin, as shown by the increasing number of publications, has received growing attention from the scientific community due to the expectations toward its benefits to human health. In this study, research on cardamonin is reviewed, including its natural sources, health promoting aspects, and analytical methods for its determination. Therefore, this article hopes to aid current and future researchers on the search for reliable answers concerning cardamonin's value in medicine.

The α-diketones glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and diacetyl were determined in selected beer and wine using a procedure involving the use of C18 solid phase extraction columns to remove interferences and derivatization of the compounds with o-phenylenediamine to form quinoxalines, which are separated by HPLC and detected using UV spectrophotometric detection. Interferences were more difficult to remove in the case of beer, due to the higher complexity of the matrix and because the concentrations of the compounds were lower (higher for methylglyoxal and lower for diacetyl, but all in the 10−7 M region). The determination was easier to implement in the case of wine as the typical concentrations of the compounds were about ten times higher, with methylglyoxal being the more abundant compound found.