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Advances of Spectrometric Techniques in Food Analysis and Authentication Series II

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 4562

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Dr. Daniel Cozzolino

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Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, St. Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: rapid analytical methods; NIR; spectroscopy; chemometrics; data analytics; food analysis; food provenance
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Dear Colleagues,

The food industry and consumers have begun to demand tools that can assure the quality (e.g., composition) and origin of foods (e.g., authenticity, fraud, provenance) in both the supply and value chains, a call which has intensified over the past decades. Although there have been advances and improvements in instrumentation, and the development of techniques that have excellent analytical capabilities, some of these methods are considered time-consuming and expensive. These issues have encouraged developments in the utilization of a wide range of spectrometric techniques, such as vibrational spectroscopy and data analytics.

We invite scholars to submit articles to this Special Issue that demonstrate recent progress in spectrometry techniques, including NIR, MIR, hyperspectral, Raman, UV-VIS, machine learning in food analytics and authentication applications (e.g., fraud, provenance, traceability). Articles focusing on novel device technologies, miniaturization, machine learning or the application of these technologies in the characterization of food products are also welcomed.

Dr. Daniel Cozzolino
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • near-infrared
  • mid-infrared
  • UV-VIS spectroscopy
  • hyperspectral
  • Raman
  • multispectral
  • machine vision
  • machine learning
  • chemometrics
  • sensors

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Critical Review of Selected Analytical Platforms for GC-MS Metabolomics Profiling—Case Study: HS-SPME/GC-MS Analysis of Blackberry’s Aroma
by Jovana Ljujić, Ljubodrag Vujisić, Vele Tešević, Ivana Sofrenić, Stefan Ivanović, Katarina Simić and Boban Anđelković
Foods 2024, 13(8), 1222; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13081222 - 17 Apr 2024
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Data processing and data extraction are the first, and most often crucial, steps in metabolomics and multivariate data analysis in general. There are several software solutions for these purposes in GC-MS metabolomics. It becomes unclear which platform offers what kind of data and [...] Read more.
Data processing and data extraction are the first, and most often crucial, steps in metabolomics and multivariate data analysis in general. There are several software solutions for these purposes in GC-MS metabolomics. It becomes unclear which platform offers what kind of data and how that information influences the analysis’s conclusions. In this study, selected analytical platforms for GC-MS metabolomics profiling, SpectConnect and XCMS as well as MestReNova software, were used to process the results of the HS-SPME/GC-MS aroma analyses of several blackberry varieties. In addition, a detailed analysis of the identification of the individual components of the blackberry aroma club varieties was performed. In total, 72 components were detected in the XCMS platform, 119 in SpectConnect, and 87 and 167 in MestReNova, with automatic integral and manual correction, respectively, as well as 219 aroma components after manual analysis of GC-MS chromatograms. The obtained datasets were fed, for multivariate data analysis, to SIMCA software, and underwent the creation of PCA, OPLS, and OPLS-DA models. The results of the validation tests and VIP-pred. scores were analyzed in detail. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Spectrometric Techniques in Food Analysis and Authentication Series II)
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Predicting Egg Storage Time with a Portable Near-Infrared Instrument: Effects of Temperature and Production System
by Daniel Cozzolino, Pooja Sanal, Jana Schreuder, Paul James Williams, Elham Assadi Soumeh, Milou Helene Dekkers, Molly Anderson, Sheree Boisen and Louwrens Christiaan Hoffman
Foods 2024, 13(2), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13020212 - 09 Jan 2024
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Determining egg freshness is critical for ensuring food safety and security and as such, different methods have been evaluated and implemented to accurately measure and predict it. In this study, a portable near-infrared (NIR) instrument combined with chemometrics was used to monitor and [...] Read more.
Determining egg freshness is critical for ensuring food safety and security and as such, different methods have been evaluated and implemented to accurately measure and predict it. In this study, a portable near-infrared (NIR) instrument combined with chemometrics was used to monitor and predict the storage time of eggs under two storage conditions—room temperature (RT) and cold (CT) storage—from two production systems: cage and free-range. A total of 700 egg samples were analyzed, using principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) regression to analyze the NIR spectra. The PCA score plot did not show any clear separation between egg samples from the two production systems; however, some egg samples were grouped according to storage conditions. The cross-validation statistics for predicting storage time were as follows: for cage and RT eggs, the coefficient of determination in cross validation (R2CV) was 0.67, with a standard error in cross-validation (SECV) of 7.64 days and residual predictive deviation (RPD) of 1.8; for CT cage eggs, R2CV of 0.84, SECV of 5.38 days and RPD of 3.2; for CT free-range eggs, R2CV of 0.83, SECV of 5.52 days and RPD of 3.2; and for RT free-range eggs, R2CV of 0.82, SECV of 5.61 days, and RPD of 3.0. This study demonstrated that NIR spectroscopy can predict storage time non-destructively in intact egg samples. Even though the results of the present study are promising, further research is still needed to further extend these results to other production systems, as well as to explore the potential of this technique to predict other egg quality parameters associated with freshness. Full article
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The Authentication of Gayo Arabica Green Coffee Beans with Different Cherry Processing Methods Using Portable LED-Based Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Chemometrics Analysis
by Meinilwita Yulia, Analianasari Analianasari, Slamet Widodo, Kusumiyati Kusumiyati, Hirotaka Naito and Diding Suhandy
Foods 2023, 12(23), 4302; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12234302 - 28 Nov 2023
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Aceh is an important region for the production of high-quality Gayo arabica coffee in Indonesia. In this area, several coffee cherry processing methods are well implemented including the honey process (HP), wine process (WP), and natural process (NP). The most significant difference between [...] Read more.
Aceh is an important region for the production of high-quality Gayo arabica coffee in Indonesia. In this area, several coffee cherry processing methods are well implemented including the honey process (HP), wine process (WP), and natural process (NP). The most significant difference between the three coffee cherry processing methods is the fermentation process: HP is a process of pulped coffee bean fermentation, WP is coffee cherry fermentation, and NP is no fermentation. It is well known that the WP green coffee beans are better in quality and are sold at higher prices compared with the HP and NP green coffee beans. In this present study, we evaluated the utilization of fluorescence information to discriminate Gayo arabica green coffee beans from different cherry processing methods using portable fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics analysis. A total of 300 samples were used (n = 100 for HP, WP, and NP, respectively). Each sample consisted of three selected non-defective green coffee beans. Fluorescence spectral data from 348.5 nm to 866.5 nm were obtained by exciting the intact green coffee beans using a portable spectrometer equipped with four 365 nm LED lamps. The result showed that the fermented green coffee beans (HP and WP) were closely mapped and mostly clustered on the left side of PC1, with negative scores. The non-fermented (NP) green coffee beans were clustered mostly on the right of PC1 with positive scores. The results of the classification using partial least squares–discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and principal component analysis–linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA) are acceptable, with an accuracy of more than 80% reported. The highest accuracy of prediction of 96.67% was obtained by using the PCA-LDA model. Our recent results show the potential application of portable fluorescence spectroscopy using LED lamps to classify and authenticate the Gayo arabica green coffee beans according to their different cherry processing methods. This innovative method is more affordable and could be easy to implement (in terms of both affordability and practicability) in the coffee industry in Indonesia. Full article
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Identification of Variety and Prediction of Chemical Composition in Cocoa Beans (Theobroma cacao L.) by FT-MIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
by Lucero Azusena Castillejos-Mijangos, Ofelia Gabriela Meza-Márquez, Guillermo Osorio-Revilla, Cristian Jiménez-Martínez and Tzayhri Gallardo-Velázquez
Foods 2023, 12(22), 4144; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12224144 - 16 Nov 2023
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Cocoa is rich in polyphenols and alkaloids that act as antioxidants, anticarcinogens, and anti-inflammatories. Analytical methods commonly used to determine the proximal chemical composition of cocoa, total phenols, and antioxidant capacity are laborious, costly, and destructive. It is important to develop fast, simple, [...] Read more.
Cocoa is rich in polyphenols and alkaloids that act as antioxidants, anticarcinogens, and anti-inflammatories. Analytical methods commonly used to determine the proximal chemical composition of cocoa, total phenols, and antioxidant capacity are laborious, costly, and destructive. It is important to develop fast, simple, and inexpensive methods to facilitate their evaluation. Chemometric models were developed to identify the variety and predict the chemical composition (moisture, protein, fat, ash, pH, acidity, and phenolic compounds) and antioxidant capacity (ABTS and DPPH) of three cocoa varieties. SIMCA model showed 99% reliability. Quantitative models were developed using the PLS algorithm and favorable statistical results were obtained for all models: 0.93 < R2c < 0.98 (R2c: calibration determination coefficient); 0.03 < SEC < 4.34 (SEC: standard error of calibration). Independent validation of the quantitative models confirmed their good predictive ability: 0.93 < R2v < 0.97 (R2v: validation determination coefficient); 0.04 < SEP < 3.59 (SEP: standard error of prediction); 0.08 < % error < 10.35). SIMCA model and quantitative models were applied to five external cocoa samples, obtaining their chemical composition using only 100 mg of sample in less than 15 min. FT-MIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics is a viable alternative to conventional methods for quality control of cocoa beans without using reagents, and with the minimum sample preparation and quantity. Full article
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Rapid and Portable Detection of Hg and Cd in Grain Samples Based on Novel Catalytic Pyrolysis Composite Trap Coupled with Miniature Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
by Tengpeng Liu, Jixin Liu, Xuefei Mao, Xiaoming Jiang, Yabo Zhao and Yongzhong Qian
Foods 2023, 12(9), 1778; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12091778 - 25 Apr 2023
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As toxic metals, Hg and Cd are a concern for food safety and human health; their rapid and portable analysis is still a challenge. A portable and rapid Hg–Cd analyzer constructed from a metal–ceramic heater (MCH)-based electrothermal vaporizer (ETV), an on-line catalytic pyrolysis [...] Read more.
As toxic metals, Hg and Cd are a concern for food safety and human health; their rapid and portable analysis is still a challenge. A portable and rapid Hg–Cd analyzer constructed from a metal–ceramic heater (MCH)-based electrothermal vaporizer (ETV), an on-line catalytic pyrolysis furnace (CPF), a composite Pt/Ni trap, and a homemade miniature atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) was proposed for grain analysis in this work. To enhance sensitivity, a new folded light path was designed for simultaneous Hg and Cd analysis using charge coupled device (CCD) in AAS. To eliminate the grain matrix interference, a catalytic pyrolysis furnace with aluminum oxide fillers was utilized to couple with a composite Pt/Ni trap. The method limits of detection (LODs) were 1.1 μg/kg and 0.3 μg/kg for Hg and Cd using a 20 mg grain sample, fulfilling the real sample analysis to monitor the grain contamination quickly; linearity R2 > 0.995 was reached only using standard solution calibration, indicating the sample was free of grain matrix interference. The favorable analytical accuracy and precision were validated by analyzing real and certified reference material (CRM) grains with recoveries of 97–103% and 96–111% for Hg and Cd, respectively. The total analysis time was less than 5 min without sample digestion or use of any chemicals, and the instrumental size and power consumption were <14 kg and 270 W, respectively. Compared with other rapid methods, this newly designed Hg–Cd analyzer is proven to be simple, portable, and robust and is, thus, suitable to quickly monitor Hg and Cd contamination in the field to protect grain and food safety. Full article
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