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Simultaneous assessment of various quality attributes and shelf life of packaged bratwurst using hyperspectral
Ubonrat Siripatrawan1, Yoshio Makino2
1Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; The Novel Technology for Food Packaging & Control of Shelf Life Research Group, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Abstract:
A simultaneous evaluation of various quality attributes of packaged bratwurst using hyperspectral imaging (HSI) was developed. Changes in physicochemical (L*, a*, b* color values, pH and thiobarbituric acid (TBA)), microbiological (total viable counts (TVC) and lactic acid bacteria (LAB)) and sensory (color, odor and overall acceptability) characteristics of the packaged sausages were monitored during storage at 4 ± 1 °C. Reflectance spectra covering a wavelength range of 400-1000 nm of the samples were acquired using HSI. The relationships between the quality attributes and the spectroscopic reflectance were investigated using canonical correlation analysis. Among all quality attributes, L* color value, TBA, TVC, LAB, odor and overall acceptability appeared to be highly associated with the reflectance. To facilitate the HSI for rapid image acquisition and data processing, partial least squares regression (PLSR) analysis was employed for selection of optimal wavelengths. The selected wavelengths were then assembled into multispectral data and used as input variables to optimize the PLSR and artificial neural network models for the prediction of quality attributes of the sausage samples. The HSI technique can be used for rapid and nondestructive evaluation of the product's quality and shelf life.
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