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Food Integrity and Authenticity
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Food Integrity and Authenticity

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2024) | Viewed by 4767

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Dr. Adriana Dehelean

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National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat Street, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS); investigation of elemental content along the food chain; multi-element fingerprinting of beverages; analysis of rare earth elements
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Dear Colleagues,

Food integrity and authenticity represent important components for increasing consumers’ trust regarding the quality and safety of food products. Consumers want to know if the products they buy are of quality, contain what they claim, and that the country of origin is the one declared on the label. Foods, as complex matrices, require, for their assessment control, adequate analysis methods combined with statistical tools in order to develop differentiation models, according to distinct criteria (e.g., geographical origin, botanical origin, producer fingerprint, etc.). The analytical methods used in the authentication process and quality control of food items (isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), Raman, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2H-NMR), ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis)) alongside different chemometric methods (i.e., PCA, LDA, PLS-DA, SIMCA, etc.) represent useful tools in building predictive models for both quantitative (calibration) and qualitative (classification) responses based on the experimental profiles.

This Special Issue aims to include the manuscripts focusing on new approaches regarding to food quality and safety assessment.

Dr. Adriana Dehelean
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • food authenticity
  • food safety
  • elemental composition
  • IRMS
  • contaminants
  • chemometrics

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Use of Biomolecular Tools to Control the Labels of Ethnic Food Coming from Eastern Europe
by Alessandra Dalmasso, Daniele Pattono, Carla Bilewski, Federica Biolcati, Silvia Maida and Maria Teresa Bottero
Foods 2024, 13(14), 2181; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13142181 - 11 Jul 2024
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In recent years, due to the large Romanian community present in Italy, the retail of foods coming from Eastern Europe has increased. The most common type of violation detected in these foods consists of incorrect labeling and species-replacement frauds. In this paper, the [...] Read more.
In recent years, due to the large Romanian community present in Italy, the retail of foods coming from Eastern Europe has increased. The most common type of violation detected in these foods consists of incorrect labeling and species-replacement frauds. In this paper, the compliance of labels of 43 ethnic processed food coming from Eastern Europe and commercialized in Italy was evaluated by means of PCR and Sanger sequencing. Our data revealed 33% of non-compliant labels in samples containing swine, ruminants, and avian ingredients. These results demonstrate that PCR can be easily used for the identification of species in highly processed products, proving to be a rapid, effective, and economic method. On the other hand, samples reporting fish as ingredients highlighted the ineffectiveness of the applied sequencing protocol, due to the low informative property of targeted fragments or to the lack of consensus sequences in the case of uncommon species. Full article
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Machine Learning Approach to Comparing Fatty Acid Profiles of Common Food Products Sold on Romanian Market
by Florina-Dorina Covaciu, Camelia Berghian-Grosan, Ariana Raluca Hategan, Dana Alina Magdas, Adriana Dehelean and Gabriela Cristea
Foods 2023, 12(23), 4237; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12234237 - 23 Nov 2023
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Food composition issues represent an increasing concern nowadays, in the context of diverse food commodity varieties. The contents and types of fatty acids are a constant preoccupation among consumers because of their reflections of nutrition and health problems. This study aims to find [...] Read more.
Food composition issues represent an increasing concern nowadays, in the context of diverse food commodity varieties. The contents and types of fatty acids are a constant preoccupation among consumers because of their reflections of nutrition and health problems. This study aims to find the best tool for the rapid and reliable identification of similarities and differences among several food items from a fatty acid profile perspective. An acknowledged GC-FID method was considered, while, for a better interpretation of the analytical results, machine learning algorithms were used. It was possible to develop a recognition model able to simultaneously differentiate, with an accuracy of 79.3%, nine product types using the bagged tree ensemble model. The low number of samples or some similarities among the classes could be responsible for the wrong assignments that occurred, especially in the biscuit, wafer and instant soup classes. Better accuracies values of 95, 86.1, and 97.8% were obtained when the products were grouped into three categories: (1) sunflower oil, mayonnaise, margarine, and cream cheese; (2) biscuits, cookies, margarine, and wafers; and (3) sunflower oil, chips, and instant soup. Full article
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Simulated and Verification of Mass and Heat Transfer Coupled Model of Jujube Slices Dried by Hot Air Combined with Radio Frequency Heat Treatment at Different Drying Stages
by Shuaitao Cao, Chenyan Yang, Yongzhen Zang, Yang Li, Jiangwei Gu, Haiyang Ding, Xuedong Yao, Rongguang Zhu, Qiang Wang, Wancheng Dong and Yong Huang
Foods 2023, 12(16), 3025; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12163025 - 11 Aug 2023
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This study investigates the impact of radio frequency (RF) heat treatment on heat and mass transfer during the hot air drying of jujube slices. Experiments were conducted at different drying stages, comparing single-hot air drying with hot air combined with RF treatment. Numerical [...] Read more.
This study investigates the impact of radio frequency (RF) heat treatment on heat and mass transfer during the hot air drying of jujube slices. Experiments were conducted at different drying stages, comparing single-hot air drying with hot air combined with RF treatment. Numerical models using COMSOL Multiphysics® were developed to simulate the process, and the results were compared to validate the models. The maximum difference between the simulated value of the center temperature and the experimental value was 6.9 °C, while the minimum difference was 0.1 °C. The maximum difference in average surface temperature was 1.7 °C, with a minimum of 0.3 °C. The determination coefficient (R2) between the simulated experimental values of HA and the early (E-HA + RF), middle (M-HA + RF), and later (L-HA + RF) groups was 0.964, 0.987, 0.961, and 0.977, respectively. The study demonstrates that RF treatment reduces drying time, enhances internal temperature, promotes consistent heat and mass transfer, and accelerates moisture diffusion in jujube slices. Furthermore, the later the RF treatment is applied, the greater the increase in internal temperature and the faster the decrease in moisture content. This research elucidates the mechanism by which RF heat treatment influences heat transfer in hot air-dried jujube slices. Full article
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