Amplite? Colorimetric Aldehyde Quantitation Kit *Blue Color*. The formation, reactivity and toxicity of aldehydes originating from the peroxidation of lipids of cellular membranes have received great attention in recent years. Rapid and accurate measurement of aldehydes is an important task for biological research, chemical research, food industry and environmental pollution surveillance. There are a few reagents or assay kits available for quantifying the number of aldehydes. Most of the existing aldehyde test methods are based on separations either by the tedious and expensive HPLC-MS or GC-MS. Kit 10053 uses a proprietary chromogenic dye that generates a strongly color product upon reacting with an aldehyde. This colorimetric kit provides a sensitive mix-and-read method to detect aldehydes (0.4 uM). The assay can be performed in a convenient 96-well or 384-well microtiter-plate format and easily adapted to automation without a separation step.