“…The most common mobile phases found in the literature for analysis of sugars by HPAEC-PAD have been NaOH/Water (Martínez et al, 2005), NaOH/NaAcO/Water (Allosio-Ouarnier et al, 2000;Ammeraal et al, 1991;Weston & Brocklebank, 1999) or NaOH/NaAcO (Ba et al, 2013;Gelders et al, 2003;Koch, Andersson, & Åman, 1998;Kong, Bertoft, Bao, & Corke, 2008;White et al, 2003) in gradient mode. Since mobile phases with a pH higher than 12 (which allows the deprotonation of studied sugars) are needed, sodium hydroxide have been always employed.…”