Curcumin is the principal curucuminoid of the popular Indian spice turmeric, which is a member of the polyphenols. It is well known that it has physiological effects such as anti-ulcer, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Turmeric curucuminoids contain curcumin as of keto and enol types.

In this report, curcuminoids in turmeric were analyzed using Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) with PDA detector, which enables ultra high-speed data aquisition of 100 spectra/sec.