“…However, cholesterol, which is present in dairy lipids in remarkable quantities, co-migrated with 1,2-and 1,3-DAG and, therefore, resulted in their overestimation, hence hindered a reliable quantitation of DAG. To omit time-consuming sample clean-up procedures removing cholesterol from the matrix, which additionally can lead to isomerizations [14,33,34], the chromatographic separation of cholesterol from 1,2-and 1,3-DAG was investigated. Varying solvent ratios and further solvents (petroleum ether, n-heptane, TBME, diisopropyl ether) for the 2 nd development of the twofold development system according to Oellig et al [27] were tested, but did not result in an entire separation of 1,2-and 1,3-DAG and from cholesterol, when mainly sharpness of the zones varied.…”