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: 24 January 2025 | Viewed by 1591

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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

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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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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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