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PLOS ONE
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206517
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- Chinese National Foundation of Nature and Science [31501213]
- special Fund for Henan Agriculture Research System [S2015-02-G07]
- Fund for Youth teachers of Universities of Henan Province [2015GGJS-077]
- National Agricultural Industry Technology System [CARS-03]
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An electronic nose was used to evaluate the bitterness and astringency of green tea, and the possible application of the sensor was assessed for the evaluation of different tasting green tea samples. Three different grades of green tea were measured with the electronic nose and electronic tongue. The sensor array of the E-nose was optimized by correlation analysis. The relationship between the signal of the optimized sensor array and the bitterness and astringency of green tea was developed using multiple linear regression (MLR), partial least squares regression (PLSR), and back propagation neural network (BPNN). BPNN is a multilayer feedforward neural network trained by an error propagation algorithm. The results showed that the BPNN model possessed good ability to predict the bitterness and astringency of green tea, with high correlation coefficients (R = 0.98 for bitterness and R = 0.96 for astringency) and relatively lower root mean square errors (RMSE) (0.25 for bitterness and 0.32 for astringency) for the calibration set. The R value is 0.92 and 0.87, and the RMSE is 0.34 and 0.55, for bitterness and astringency, respectively, of the prediction set. These results indicate that the electronic nose could be used as a feasible and reliable method to evaluate the taste of green tea. These results can provide a theoretical reference for rapid detection of the bitter and astringent taste of green tea using volatile odor information.
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