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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 645, Issue 1-2, Pages 56-63Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2009.04.043
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Olive oil; Authenticity; Adulteration; Direct analysis in real time (DART); Time-of-flight mass spectrometry; Linear discriminant analysis
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- European Commission [FP6-FOOD-2004-006942-TRACE]
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [MSM 6046137305]
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A novel approach for the authentication of olive oil samples representing different quality grades has been developed. A new type of ion source, direct analysis in real time (DART), coupled to a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) was employed for the comprehensive profiling of triacylglycerols (TAGS) and/or polar compounds extracted with a methanol-water mixture. The main parameters influencing the ionization efficiency of TAGS were the type of sample solvent, degree of sample dilution, ion beam temperature, and presence of a dopant (ammonia vapors). The ionization yield of polar compounds depended mainly on a content of water in the extract and ion beam temperature. Using DART-TOFMS. not only differentiation among extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), olive pomace oil (OPO) and olive oil (OO) could be easily achieved, but also EVOO adulteration with commonly used adulterant, hazelnut oil (HO), was feasible. Based on the linear discriminant analysis (LDA), the introduced method allowed detection of HO addition of 6 and 15% (v/v) when assessing DART-TOFMS mass profiles of polar compounds and TAGS, respectively. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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