Journal
FOODS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods10020202
Keywords
ATR-FTIR; Mentha piperita essential oil; PLSR; PCR; HCA; adulteration; chemometrics
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- Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah [FP-58-42]
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Mentha piperita essential oil is economically important due to its wide usage area and health-beneficial properties. Adulteration of high-valued essential oils can deteriorate the quality of authentic essential oil, harm consumers, and affect the entire supply chain. ATR-FTIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics is effective for monitoring various adulterants in essential oils.
Mentha piperita essential oil (EO) has high economic importance because of its wide usage area and health-beneficial properties. Besides health-beneficial properties, Mentha piperita EO has great importance in the flavor and food industries because of its unique sensory and quality properties. High-valued essential oils are prone to being adulterated with economic motivations. This kind of adulteration deteriorates the quality of authentic essential oil, injures the consumers, and causes negative effects on the whole supply chain from producer to the consumer. The current research used fast, economic, robust, reliable, and effective ATR-FTIR spectroscopy coupled chemometrics of hierarchical cluster analysis(HCA), principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares regression (PLSR) and principal component regression (PCR) for monitoring of Mentha spicata EO and L-menthol adulteration in Mentha piperita EOs. Adulterant contents (Mentha spicata and L-menthol) were successfully calculated using PLSR and PCR models. Standard error of the cross-validation SECV values changed between 0.06 and 2.14. Additionally, bias and press values showed alteration between 0.06 and1.43 and 0.03 and 41.15, respectively. Authentic Mentha piperita was successfully distinguished from adulterated samples, Mentha spicata and L-menthol, by HCA and PCA analysis. The results showed that attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, coupled with chemometrics could be effectively used for monitoring various adulterants in essential oils.
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