Journal
AGRICULTURE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12091359
Keywords
aroma; electronic nose; gas sensors; intelligent pattern recognition; tea quality
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- MOE Taiwan
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This review examines the potential applications of electronic noses (E-noses) as monitoring devices for tea quality. It introduces the principles of E-nose and different gas sensor types used, discusses commonly used pattern recognition methods, and highlights the challenges and future trends for E-nose devices.
Tea is the most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverage worldwide. In the tea sector, the high demand for tea has led to an increase in the adulteration of superior tea grades. The procedure of evaluating tea quality is difficult to assure the highest degree of tea safety in the context of consumer preferences. In recent years, the advancement in sensor technology has replaced the human olfaction system with an artificial olfaction system, i.e., electronic noses (E-noses) for quality control of teas to differentiate the distinct aromas. Therefore, in this review, the potential applications of E-nose as a monitoring device for different teas have been investigated. The instrumentation, working principles, and different gas sensor types employed for E-nose applications have been introduced. The widely used statistical and intelligent pattern recognition methods, namely, PCA, LDA, PLS-DA, KNN, ANN, CNN, SVM, etc., have been discussed in detail. The challenges and the future trends for E-nose devices have also been highlighted. Overall, this review provides the insight that E-nose combined with an appropriate pattern recognition method is a powerful non-destructive tool for monitoring tea quality. In future, E-noses will undoubtedly reduce their shortcomings with improved detection accuracy and consistency by employing food quality testing.
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