NMR Studies in Food Authentication

In the last years, NMR has largely showed its great potentiality in food characterization. The capability to detect several, metabolites in one single experiment, lead to increase the available information that could be used in food quality determination. Recently, NM\studies of foods focused on geographical determination started to grow as well as adulteration assessments in the view of protection policies of both local and traditional products. In this work, different foods have been investigated by means of NMR techniques and multivariate statistical analysis with particular attention in geographical origin determination and fraud detection.