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absorption; alcohols; cluster analysis; data collection; discriminant analysis; fluorescence; food safety; fructose; glucose; pH; principal component analysis; titratable acidity; wines
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... Authentication of wine can be considered at different scales, with classification according to country, province/state, or appellation/wine producing region. An absorbance-transmission and excitation-emission matrix (A-TEEM) technique was applied for the first time to examine intraregional differences, using Shiraz wines (n = 186) produced during three vintages from five subregions of Barossa Vall ...
... A potential tool for authenticating Tibetan pork based on species and geographical origins was investigated by isotopic and multi-elemental fingerprints to compare Tibetan pork and plain pork from various regions in China. In this study, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions and concentrations of 50 elements of a total of 93 pork samples (Tibetan pork from Tibet and Sichuan, J ...
catalysts; discriminant analysis; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; food chemistry; phospholipase A1; phospholipids; tandem mass spectrometry; transesterification; water content
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... Lipase-catalyzed transesterification of structured phospholipids (sPLs) is a hot topic, but the structural variation of the fatty acyl chains in intact phospholipids at the molecular level remains unclear to date. The present study explored the detailed characteristics of synthesized phospholipids through high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS/MS) in precursor ion ...
... Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy were combined to enhance discrimination of soybean paste samples according to geographical origin. Since element and organic component compositions of soybean pastes depend on soybean cultivation areas and fermentation conditions, utilization of two complementary spectroscopic signatures would be synergetic for the di ...
chemometrics; decision support systems; discriminant analysis; flavonoids; food safety; grapes; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; white wines
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... The use of metabolic fingerprinting combined with advanced chemometric tools for wine authentication has increased in recent years. Although numerous studies, showing different authentication strategies, have been published, rarely any attention has been paid to the stability of used classification models over a longer time period. Here, we present a reliable and robust metabolic fingerprinting-ba ...
... Omics study exemplified by proteomics, lipidomics or metabolomics, provides the opportunity to get insight of the molecular modifications occurring in living organisms in response to contaminants or in different physiological conditions. However, individual omics discloses only a single layer of information leading to a partial image of the biological complexity. Multiplication of samples preparat ...
... Chilled chicken has become the mainstream of chicken consumption. In order to explore the effect of post-mortem aging on water-soluble flavor precursors of chicken, pH, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) degradation, flavor nucleosides, free amino acids and water-soluble low molecular weight peptides were determined using Qingyuan partridge yellow-feathered broilers as material during 0–4 °C post-mortem ...
... Consumers' interest in organic foods is increasing, and robust analytical tools are necessary to authenticate them. This study investigated the potential of Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) under two measurement conditions combined with chemometric tools to classify tomato and sweet pepper samples according to the agronomic production mode and geographical area cultivation. Initially, ...
breast meat; breasts; discriminant analysis; food safety; muscles; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; pale soft exudative meat; pectoralis muscle; spectrophotometers; support vector machines; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy; wooden breast
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... The potential of using simple visible spectroscopy (VIS) and low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) was evaluated for differentiating three muscle conditions, normal (NORM), pale, soft and exudative (PSE), and woody breast (WB), in broiler pectoralis major. A total of 162 of pectoralis major, 54 for each condition, were collected from a commercial plant. Meat VIS spectra and transverse rela ...
... Dried blood spot (DBS) metabolomics has numerous applications in newborn health screening, exposomics, and biomonitoring of environmental chemicals in pregnant women and the elderly. However, accurate metabolite quantification is hindered by several challenges: notably the “hematocrit effect” and unknown blood-spotting volumes. Different techniques have been employed to overcome these issues but t ...
algorithms; data analysis; data collection; discriminant analysis; prediction
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... Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for multiclass classification and dimensionality reduction. However, in general, ordinary LDA does not achieve high prediction accuracy when observations in some classes are difficult to be classified. A novel cluster-based LDA method is proposed that significantly improves prediction accuracy. Hierarchical clustering is adopted, and the di ...
... Accurate identification of various liquors from the same brand is of great significance for safeguarding the rights and interests of consumers and the market economy. Here, the spectral properties of liquors were studied based on ultraviolet (UV), near-infrared (NIR) and multi-way fluorescence spectroscopy. Then these liquors were distinguished by integrating their spectral properties with the che ...
discriminant analysis; food safety; grapes; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; models; multivariate analysis; prediction; product authenticity; spectrometers; white wines
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... Instrument comparability is a major prerequisite for the harmonization of non-targeted analytical approaches for food authentication. While non-targeted liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a powerful and widely used technique in authenticity studies, inter-laboratory or instrument comparison exercises are rare. For the first time, in the present study a comparison of tw ...
... Absorbance-transmission and fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (A-TEEM) spectroscopy was investigated as a rapid method for predicting maturity indices using Cabernet Sauvignon grapes produced under four viticulture treatments during two growing seasons. Machine learning models were developed with fused spectral data to predict 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP), pH, total tannins (Tannin), ...
... Flesh content of pomelos sometimes does not match the price due to thick peel, which reduces their commercial value and consumer satisfaction. This study demonstrated the potential use of X-ray imaging method for non-destructive evaluation of the edible rate and the flesh content of ‘Hongrou’ pomelos and ‘Guanxi’ pomelos. An adaptive threshold segmentation method was used to segment the X-ray imag ...
... Varieties of a single crop type may vary in several attributes affecting the choice at different spots of the food supply chain. This paper demonstrates a rapid classification of ten tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] grain varieties based on image processing and multivariate data analysis. Extreme Gradient Boosted Tree Discriminant Analysis (EGBDA) was applied for the variety-based classificati ...
crop yield; discriminant analysis; sugarcane; technology; weather; India
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... Discriminant function analysis has been used for forecasting of Sugarcane yield of Coimbatore district in Tamilnadu. Crop yield has been classified into two and three groups. Using this crop yield and monthly data on weather variables,discriminant function analysis has been carried out. The scores calculated from function this along with the trend have used as regressors in developing yield foreca ...
... To discriminate among three poultry meat types (hybrid broiler, hybrid broiler affected by breast myopathies, and slow-growing native breed), and to predict the proximate and the amino acid (AA) composition of breast meat, two NIRs (Near-Infrared) instruments operating between 850 and 2500 nm coupled with chemometric algorithms and Machine Learning (ML) approaches, were tested. The Partial Least S ...
... The main purpose of this study was to investigate the improvement effect of Mesona chinensis Benth polysaccharide (MP) on cyclophosphamide (CTX) induced liver injury in mice. To explore metabolic profile of liver tissue and feces among normal group, CTX-induced group and MP management group based on metabolomics method by using UPLC-Q-TOF/MS. The results showed that MP could alleviate liver injury ...
Helianthus annuus; anchovies; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; fish oils; food chemistry; gas chromatography; linseed oil; off odors; oxidation; vegetables
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... Fish oil develops particular off-odors, mainly fishy odor, from the oxidation of its characteristic fatty acids, docosahexaenoic (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic (EPA). Anchovy oil (AO) was taken as representative of fish oils. This was compared to three vegetable oils with different fatty acid compositions, i.e. camellia, sunflower and linseed oil, and differential volatile compounds were identified by ...
... Intensive systems of raising chickens in barns prevail worldwide for financial reasons. In contrast, free-range chickens are raised in better welfare conditions, and preferred by consumers due to their distinctive taste/flavor, having higher market prices. Thus, free-range chickens have been the target of frauds. In this study, ¹H NMR metabolic profiles of breasts of free-range and barn-raised bro ...
... Renal stones are a common urological disease with high prevalence and recurrence rates. Characterizing gut microbiome profiles of first‐onset renal calculi patients, both before and after surgery, may provide valuable insights and identify potential biomarkers for the disease. In this study, we explored the associations between the gut microbiome and renal stone formation using 16S ribosomal RNA ( ...
... Detection of the early stages of stress is crucial in stabilizing crop yields and agricultural production. The aim of this study was to construct a nondestructive and robust method to predict the early physiological drought status of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum); for this purpose, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model with a one-dimensional (1D) kernel for fitting the visible and n ...
... Electrical activity in plants undergoes potential changes in interpreting the plant's physiological state. These electrical signals show arbitrary and probabilistic dynamics in which stress can be detected and analysed in the early stages of symptom appearance in plants. Evaluation of uncertainty in plant signals by signal strength enhancement is stress-specific. In this paper, we considered physi ...
... To explore the impact of the Maillard reaction on fried pepper sauce (FPS) flavor and safety quality, acrylamide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were measured in FPS. Acrylamide was detected in 10 Maillard treated groups and a total of 110 VOCs were identified, mainly aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, acids, etc., but the content of each group differed. Partial least squares discriminant analysi ...
Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez; Angélica Romero-Manzanares; Ma. Amparo Borja-de la Rosa; Juan Ignacio Valdez-Hernández; Mario Luna-Cavazos; José Blancas-Vázquez
... KEY MESSAGE: Anatomical traits and features of Amphipterygium adstringens wood and hydraulic properties, both linked to sex, explain the performance of the species in its ecological niche. Androic and gynoic dioecious species respond structurally and functionally to the environmental conditions where they live. How are adaptive advantages manifested by each sex, from the anatomical water transport ...
... In aquaculture, essential oils are considered promising supplements that can improve productive performance and modulate the fish's microbiota. Here we investigate how a blend of essential oils (carvacrol + thymol + cinnamaldehyde acid) affects the productive performance and the intestinal microbiota of juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, Thai strain). All fish were randomly distributed ...
Donielle Pannell; Brou Kouakou; Thomas H. Terrill; Ibukun M. Ogunade; Zaira M. Estrada-Reyes; Voris Bryant; Godstime Taiwo; Modoluwamu Idowu; Andres A. Pech-Cervantes
... We evaluated the effect of replacement of corn and soybean meal (SBM) with dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in sericea lespedeza (SL; Lespedeza cuneata) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa)-based diets on ruminal fermentation and bacterial community of growing meat goats. Thirty-six male Spanish growing meat goats with an average body weight of 24 ± 1.8 kg were stratified by body weight and a ...
Jing Sheng Ng; Syahidah Akmal Muhammad; Chin Hong Yong; Ainolsyakira Mohd Rodhi; Baharudin Ibrahim; Mohd Noor Hidayat Adenan; Salmah Moosa; Zainon Othman; Nazaratul Ashifa Abdullah Salim; Zawiyah Sharif; Faridah Ismail; Simon D. Kelly; Andrew Cannavan
adulterated products; agar; birds; chemometrics; collagen; discriminant analysis; market prices; spectral analysis; spectrometers; spectroscopy; traditional medicine; Malaysia
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... Edible bird’s nests (EBNs) are vulnerable to adulteration due to their huge demand for traditional medicine and high market price. Presently, there are pressing needs to explore field-deployable rapid screening techniques to detect adulteration of EBNs. The objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a handheld near-infrared (VIS/SW-NIR) spectroscopic device for the determinatio ...
... The purpose of this study was to develop a hierarchical approach by combining similarity evaluation (SE), discriminant analysis (DA) and principal component analysis (PCA) to detect the adulteration of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau flaxseed oil using triacylglycerol (TAG) profiles with HPLC-ELSD. SE could effectively differentiate pure flaxseed oil from non-flaxseed oil when the adulteration concentration ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; cooking fats and oils; discriminant analysis; food chemistry; headspace analysis; prices; principal component analysis; sesame oil; spectroscopy; China; South East Asia
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... Sesame oil is a traditional and delicious edible oil in China and Southeast Asia with a high price. However, sesame oil essence was often illegally added to cheaper edible oils to counterfeit sesame oil. In this study, a rapid and accurate headspace gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) method was proposed to detect the counterfeit sesame oil where the other cheap oils were adul ...
altitude; discriminant analysis; environmental management; flood control; inventories; land cover; land use; linear models; lithology; pollution; regression analysis; research; spatial data; streams; support vector machines; variance; Egypt; Red Sea
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... Floods are among the most devastating environmental hazards that directly and indirectly affect people’s lives and activities. In many countries, sustainable environmental management requires the assessment of floods and the likely flood-prone areas to avoid potential hazards. In this study, the performance and capabilities of seven machine learning algorithms (MLAs) for flood susceptibility mappi ...
... The role of oral microbiota in viral encephalitis and/or viral meningitis (VEVM) remains unclear. In this hospital-based, frequency-matched study, children with clinically diagnosed VEVM (n = 68) and those with other diseases (controls, n = 68) were recruited. Their oral swab samples were collected and the oral microbiota was profiled using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The oral microbiota of children ...
João Lucas Della-Silva; Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior; Mendelson Lima; Ricardo da Silva Ribeiro; Luciano Shozo Shiratsuchi; Fernando Saragosa Rossi; Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro; Paulo Eduardo Teodoro
... Sampling trees in natural environment can be used in studies ranging from floristic composition and phytogeography to management and growth modelling, and accurate inventories are based on highly labor-intensive methods. Relying on hyperspectral approach, this study aimed to differentiate spectral libraries of four Amazon tree species. We first prepared the spectroradiometer data on representative ...
aspartic acid; cysteine; discriminant analysis; food composition; functional foods; high performance liquid chromatography; least squares; models; prediction; principal component analysis; tryptophan; Malaysia
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... Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) is mainly used as a functional food where its quality is affected by many factors including geographical region. This study aims to differentiate the EBN from West Malaysia (WM) and East Malaysia (EM) based on amino acid profiles by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with multivariate approach. A total of 33 authentic EBN samples were collected from WM ...
... Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is the most severe viral disease for citrus production. Many strains of CTV have been characterized and their symptomology widely varies, ranging from mild or asymptomatic infections, to severe symptomology that results in substantial yield loss or host death. The capacity of the different CTV strains to affect the biochemistry of different citrus species has remained l ...
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Data from: Amino acid, sugar, phenolic, and terpenoid profiles are capable of distinguishing Citrus tristeza virus infection status in grapefruit, lemon, mandarin, and sweet orange leaves
Citrus; capillary zone electrophoresis; chemical species; chemometrics; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis; food composition; hesperidin; kaempferol; liquids; mass spectrometry; naringenin; naringin; pH; rutin; temperature
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... A rapid, efficient and simple method using capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE-ESI-Q-TOF-MS) was developed for the determination of the eight flavonoids (schaftoside, rutin, hesperidin, naringenin, naringin, violanthin, hesperitin and kaempferol) in 23 citrus samples. CE and ESI-Q-TOF conditions (e.g. nebulizer gas pressure, drying gas ...
... In this study, an untargeted metabolomics method based on LC-MS was used to investigate the differential metabolites of coix seed after fermentation by Monascus purpureus. The compounds with highly correlated variable importance in projection (VIP) values of orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were selected as the important metabolites of coix seed samples. Coix seed w ...
... Leishmaniasis, transmitted to human by sand flies, is a neglected vector-borne diseases and has two clinical forms: cutaneous (CL) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Turkey. Subgenus of Adlerius are known as probable vectors of both forms of leishmaniasis in Turkey. Examined three species belonging to Adlerius are difficult to distinguish morphologically and have similar taxonomic characters. The ...
... Vinegar is a very popular condiment with different species and aroma profiles. Eighty-three volatile odor compounds (VOCs) were identified from European vinegar using ultra-fast gas chromatographic electronic nose (UFGC E-nose), of which there were 61 VOCs with odor activity value (OAV) ≥ 1. Among the 61 VOCs, acetic acid, ethyl isovalerate, propionaldehyde, butanoic acid, ethyl cinnamate, and gua ...
Cricetidae; biodiversity; biogeography; climate; data collection; discriminant analysis; evolution; latitude; longitude; mice; phenotypic variation; primary productivity; rain; regression analysis; sexual dimorphism; skull; temperature; Andes region; Argentina
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... AIM: Mountains cover approximately 22% of the planet's terrestrial surface and have dramatic effects on climate and biodiversity. The rain shadow effect is a common feature on mountain ranges worldwide and its effects on ecology and evolution of species, particularly morphology, are incompletely known. Our aim is to identify the correlates that best describe morphological variation along a pronoun ...
Eupatorium; Lasioderma serricorne; Ocimum basilicum; Oriental traditional medicine; Tagetes minuta; Tribolium castaneum; air; discriminant analysis; fumigants; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; hydrodistillation; oils; precocenes; principal component analysis; secondary metabolites
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... Antagonistic storage potential of Tagetes minuta Linnaeus, Eupatorium fortunei Turcz. and Ocimum basilicum L. volatile oils hydrodistillated with main secondary metabolites against two storage pests, Tribolium castaneum and Lasioderma serricorne adults were evaluated. More than 95% volatile secondary metabolites obtained at different hydrodistillation time were identified by gas chromatography-mas ...
... HighlightsEight JIP-test parameters most relevant to tomato bacterial wilt were identified.A novel model was developed for detection of tomato bacterial wilt.The overall detection accuracy of the developed model was 88.42%.Abstract. Bacterial wilt seriously threatens global tomato yield. Timely and accurately identification of plants infected with bacterial wilt is crucial to the implementation of ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; adulterated products; chemometrics; cows; discriminant analysis; horses; least squares; mare milk; milk; models; reflectance
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... Expensive milk such as horse’s milk (HM) may be the target of adulteration by other milk such as goat’s milk (GM) and cow’s milk (CM). FTIR spectroscopy in combination with chemometrics of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and multivariate calibrations of partial least square regression (PLSR) and principal component regression (PCR) was used for authentication of HM from GM and CM. Milk was dire ...
adulterated products; data collection; discriminant analysis; least squares; principal component analysis; qualitative analysis; spectral analysis; vegetable oil; vegetables
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... Due to the ever-increasing worldwide interest in the exploitation of waste vegetable oils, the development of analytical tools able to detect their adulteration with edible oils, is considered a priority for the scientific and industrial community. In this work, edible and waste vegetable oils have been analysed by Fourier Transform-InfraRed (FT-IR) and Ultraviolet-Visible (UV–VIS) spectroscopies ...
... The study objective was to investigate the potential for using visible near-infrared (Vis-NIR) and short wave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy to segregate bison portions based on muscle types and storage periods. In the Vis-NIR range, the principal component analysis showed clear segregation of the muscles based on storage at retail display d 4 whereas the discrimination based on muscle type was bett ...
Héctor Aarón Lee-Rangel; German David Mendoza-Martinez; Lorena Diaz de León-Martínez; Alejandro Enrique Relling; Anayeli Vazquez-Valladolid; Monika Palacios-Martínez; Pedro Abel Hernández-García; Alfonso Juventino Chay-Canul; Rogelio Flores-Ramirez; José Alejandro Roque-Jiménez
... Electronic devices have been used to describe chemical compounds in the food industry. However, there are different models and manufacturers of these devices; thus, there has been little consistency in the type of compounds and methods used for identification. This work aimed to determine the applicability of electronic nose (e-nose) Cyroanose 320 to describe the differentiation of volatile organi ...
... The contents of selected metals (K, Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Sr, Rb, Ba, Pb, Ni, Cr and V) in 70 wine samples from Continental and Adriatic part of Croatia and different types of wine (red and white) were determined by TXRF. The aim of this study was to compare the elemental composition of wines from two different regions and to determine the discriminant ability of each variable and to indicate which ...
... Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS), two non-destructive and rapid techniques, were explored to classify the geographical origin of soybeans. Multivariate statistical methods, including principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis (DA), and modified partial least squares (MPLS), were applied as a chemometric tool ...
aflatoxin B1; chemometrics; corn; discriminant analysis; hyperspectral imagery; image analysis; measurement; models; principal component analysis; support vector machines; wavelengths
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... Contamination of aflatoxins has important effect on the quality of corn seed. In this study, hyperspectral imaging technology was used to detect aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) with different concentrations (100, 50, 30, 20 and 10 μg/kg) on corn seeds. The near-infrared hyperspectral data, which were collected from the corn seed samples, were processed by image segmentation method. Then, the spectra in the ra ...