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Application of Spectroscopic Technology Coupled with Chemometrics in Food Analysis
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Application of Spectroscopic Technology Coupled with Chemometrics in Food Analysis

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 August 2025 | Viewed by 7495

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Dr. Elísabet Martín-Tornero

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Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Extremadura, Avenida de Elvas, s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: analytical chemistry; spectroscopy; HPLC; NIRS; chemometrics; food
Prof. Dr. Santiago Ruiz-Moyano

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Nutrición y Bromatología, Escuela de Ingenierías Agrarias, Universidad de Extremadura, Avd. Adolfo Suárez s/n, 06007 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: food quality; chemical composition; non-destructive analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

The application of analytical methodologies to assess and ensure the quality of food products is of paramount importance. In this context, spectroscopic techniques play a crucial role, as they can provide an accurate fingerprint of a food product, offering a rapid, non-destructive and highly sensitive approach. These techniques generate signals that contain extensive information regarding the chemical composition of the product. However, the interpretation and analysis of such data can be challenging, necessitating the use of chemometric techniques to effectively process the spectroscopic data.

Therefore, this Special Issue is collecting papers focused on the use of spectroscopic techniques in conjunction with chemometrics to analyse, characterise or differentiate food products.

Dr. Elísabet Martín-Tornero
Prof. Dr. Santiago Ruiz-Moyano
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Keywords

  • foods
  • spectroscopy
  • fluorescence spectroscopy
  • NIRS
  • FTIR
  • raman spectroscopy
  • chemometrics
  • multivariate analysis

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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Detection of Off-Flavor Compounds in Tench (Tinca tinca) After Depuration in Clean Water
by Daniel Martín-Vertedor, Juan Carlos Ramírez-López, Ricardo S. Aleman, Elisabet Martín-Tornero and Ismael Montero-Fernández
Foods 2025, 14(5), 739; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods14050739 - 21 Feb 2025
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Tench (Tinca tinca) is a warm-temperate, freshwater benthic fish with often unpleasant odors and flavors which result from its natural habitat. These characteristics may deter consumers; therefore, their removal would enhance the fish’s palatability and market appeal. Thus, tench were grown [...] Read more.
Tench (Tinca tinca) is a warm-temperate, freshwater benthic fish with often unpleasant odors and flavors which result from its natural habitat. These characteristics may deter consumers; therefore, their removal would enhance the fish’s palatability and market appeal. Thus, tench were grown in an aquaculture center and subjected to a clean water depuration system in which six sampling points were carried out at 0 h, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, and 96 h. An analysis was conducted using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), revealing acid derivatives as the predominant families of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The main off-flavor VOCs were 3,5,5-trimethyl-1-hexene, dimethyl-8-hydronaphtalen, 1-octen-3-ol, diethyl phthalate, 2-methylisoborneol, and a-isomethylionone. Maximum concentrations were observed at 0 h, exceeding 300 μg/g for diethyl phthalate and being less than 55 μg/g for the remaining VOCs. The content progressively decreased from that point on. The spectra obtained by NIRS highlighted differences between the cleaning depuration treatments, exhibiting discrimination among the samples studied (PC1 = 77.8%; PC2 = 11.3%). Finally, dimethyl-8-hydronaphtalen and 2-methylisoborneol were linearly correlated with NIRS data, with RCV2  values of 0.94 and 0.96, respectively, and RMSECV values of 1.00 and 3.62 μg/g, respectively. Therefore, a clean water depuration system is appropriate to obtain fish with fewer off-flavor characteristics. Moreover, NIRS represents an accurate, inexpensive, and non-destructive technique to determine the optimal time for the water depuration of fish. Full article
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Prediction of the Quality of Anxi Tieguanyin Based on Hyperspectral Detection Technology
by Tao Wang, Yongkuai Chen, Yuyan Huang, Chengxu Zheng, Shuilan Liao, Liangde Xiao and Jian Zhao
Foods 2024, 13(24), 4126; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13244126 - 20 Dec 2024
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Anxi Tieguanyin belongs to the oolong tea category and is one of the top ten most famous teas in China. In this study, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology was combined with chemometric methods to achieve the rapid determination of free amino acid and tea [...] Read more.
Anxi Tieguanyin belongs to the oolong tea category and is one of the top ten most famous teas in China. In this study, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology was combined with chemometric methods to achieve the rapid determination of free amino acid and tea polyphenol contents in Tieguanyin tea. Here, the spectral data of Tieguanyin tea samples of four quality grades were obtained via visible near-infrared hyperspectroscopy in the range of 400–1000 nm, and the free amino acid and tea polyphenol contents of the samples were detected. First derivative (1D), normalization (Nor), and Savitzky–Golay (SG) smoothing were utilized to preprocess the original spectrum. The characteristic wavelengths were extracted via principal component analysis (PCA), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), and the successive projection algorithm (SPA). The contents of free amino acid and tea polyphenol in Tieguanyin tea were predicted by the back propagation (BP) neural network, partial least squares regression (PLSR), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM). The results revealed that the free amino acid content of the clear-flavoured Tieguanyin was greater than that of the strong-flavoured type, that the tea polyphenol content of the strong-flavoured Tieguanyin was greater than that of the clear-flavoured type, and that the content of the first-grade product was greater than that of the second-grade product. The 1D preprocessing improved the resolution and sensitivity of the spectra. When using CARS, the number of wavelengths for free amino acids and tea polyphenols was reduced to 50 and 70, respectively. The combination of 1D and CARS is conducive to improving the accuracy of late modelling. The 1D-CARS-RF model had the highest accuracy in predicting the free amino acid (RP2 = 0.940, RMSEP = 0.032, and RPD = 4.446) and tea polyphenol contents (RP2 = 0.938, RMSEP = 0.334, and RPD = 4.474). The use of hyperspectral imaging combined with multiple algorithms can be used to achieve the fast and non-destructive prediction of free amino acid and tea polyphenol contents in Tieguanyin tea. Full article
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The Role of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Food Quality Assurance: A Review of the Past Two Decades
by Marietta Fodor, Anna Matkovits, Eszter Luca Benes and Zsuzsa Jókai
Foods 2024, 13(21), 3501; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13213501 - 31 Oct 2024
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During food quality control, NIR technology enables the rapid and non-destructive determination of the typical quality characteristics of food categories, their origin, and the detection of potential counterfeits. Over the past 20 years, the NIR results for a variety of food groups—including meat [...] Read more.
During food quality control, NIR technology enables the rapid and non-destructive determination of the typical quality characteristics of food categories, their origin, and the detection of potential counterfeits. Over the past 20 years, the NIR results for a variety of food groups—including meat and meat products, milk and milk products, baked goods, pasta, honey, vegetables, fruits, and luxury items like coffee, tea, and chocolate—have been compiled. This review aims to give a broad overview of the NIRS processes that have been used thus far to assist researchers employing non-destructive techniques in comparing their findings with earlier data and determining new research directions. Full article
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