Specific recognition of polyphenols by molecularly imprinted polymers based on a ternary deep eutectic solvent.

•A ternary DES with an insoluble compound as a template was used to prepare a MIP.•The MIP had obvious characteristics of chromatographic packing materials.•The recognition of MIP followed the second-order kinetics and the Freundlich model.•The DES based-MIP is a feasible strategy for further MIP research developments.