Coffee is one of the most popular and appreciate beverages worldwide and its particular high economical value often implies adulteration practises that could involve geographical origin. In this context the development of new analytical methods to guarantee the quality of coffee in terms of both authenticity and provenance results very important. As other food matrices, coffee represents a very complex matrix to analyze, being constituted by several class of chemical compounds. The metabolomic approach could be an useful tool to investigate all soluble chemical species at the same time. NMR spectroscopy has already demonstrated its prevalent role in metabolomic analysis [1] and in this work it is employed in combination with multivariate statistical protocols to analyze coffee beans coming from different countries with the main aim of geographical origin.
NMR METABOLOMICS STUDY OF COFFEE
Laura Ruth Cagliani;Roberto Consonni
2011
Abstract
Coffee is one of the most popular and appreciate beverages worldwide and its particular high economical value often implies adulteration practises that could involve geographical origin. In this context the development of new analytical methods to guarantee the quality of coffee in terms of both authenticity and provenance results very important. As other food matrices, coffee represents a very complex matrix to analyze, being constituted by several class of chemical compounds. The metabolomic approach could be an useful tool to investigate all soluble chemical species at the same time. NMR spectroscopy has already demonstrated its prevalent role in metabolomic analysis [1] and in this work it is employed in combination with multivariate statistical protocols to analyze coffee beans coming from different countries with the main aim of geographical origin.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
