Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 93-101Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-8146(00)00282-X
Keywords
coffee; triglycerides; tocopherols; high performance liquid chromatography; pattern recognition; chemometrics
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The triglyceride and tocopherol contents of green and roasted coffee beans belonging to the arabica and robusta varieties were determined by reversed phase and normal phase high resolution liquid chromatography, respectively. Refractive index detector was used in the case of the triglycerides and fluorescence for tocopherols. Coffee oil was Soxhlet extracted with hexane. By considering the triglyceride and tocopherol profiles as chemical descriptors, a chemometric study with authentication purposes was performed to differentiate coffee varieties. Pattern recognition techniques like principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis were carried out. Discrimination between arabica and robusta coffees was achieved with both profiles, but only tocopherols also allow the differentiation between green and roasted coffees. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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