Abstract. The objective of this paper consists in defining the interest of a new high-performance ion chromatography method (HPIC) with chemically suppressed conductivity detector for phytic acid determination in food samples. Firsly, accuracy and precision of the HPIC method have been measured. Secondly, The HPIC method and a classical absorptiometric method were compared. The HPIC method was more sensitive and selective than the absorptiometric method which leaded to an 27% overestimation of the phytic acid content in legume seeds. Because of it is rapid and easy to perform, the HPIC method appears to be particularly suitable for routine analysis of food samples.