The invention discloses a method for rapidly identifying illegally added
poppy shells in
herbal tea. The method comprises the following steps: (1) carrying out ultrasonic treatment on a liquid
herbal tea sample to obtain a
herbal tea sample, regulating the herbal tea sample to be slightly alkaline, adding an
organic solvent and
sodium chloride, carrying out vortex extraction, centrifuging, layering, adding an
ammonium acetate solution into supernatant, and uniformly mixing, thereby obtaining to-be-tested liquid; or adding an
organic solvent into a
solid herbal tea sample, carrying out ultrasonic treatment, cooling an extracting solution to
room temperature, making up to constant volume, adding an
ammonium acetate solution into the extracting solution, and uniformly mixing, thereby obtaining to-be-tested liquid; and (2) filtering the to-be-tested liquid by virtue of an organic
phase filter membrane, with an
acetic acid-
methanol solution and an
ammonium acetate solution as a mobile phase, carrying out reversed phase
chromatographic column separation, and detecting five main ingredients, namely
morphine,
codeine,
thebaine, papaverine and narcotine, in the
poppy shells on eluent by adopting an ultra-
high performance liquid chromatography-tandom
mass spectrometer. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that pretreatment is simple and rapid, qualitative and quantitative treatment is accurate, and the illegally added
poppy shell ingredients in the herbal tea can be rapidly and reliably detected.