The overuse of swelling agents in fruits and vegetables has rapidly increased, resulting in food safety problems. Hence, a new method for the selective extraction and detection of thidiazuron (TDZ) and forchlorfenuron (KT30) was developed using deep eutectic solvent-molecularly imprinted hydrophilic resin (DES-MIHR) as a pipette tip solid-phase extraction (PT-SPE) adsorbent with excellent molecular recognition in aqueous matrixes. DES-MIHR interacted with TDZ and KT30 via π-π interactions and hydrogen bonding. The miniaturized PT-SPE can be performed with just 5.0 mg adsorbent, 0.3 mL water, and 0.2 mL eluent, thus having the advantage of the low consumption of adsorbent and organic reagents. The performance of the DES-MIHR-PT-SPE-high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was demonstrated with the recoveries from various fruits and vegetables being 81.1-102.9 % (RSD ≤ 7.1 %). Thereby indicating the general applicability of the developed method for the accurate determination of trace swelling agents in fruits and vegetables.

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