Evidence on the discrimination of quinoa grains with a combination of FT-MIR and FT-NIR spectroscopy
Silvio D Rodríguez1,2, M P López-Fernández1,2, S Maldonado1,2
11Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Quinoa is considered as a valuable re-emergent crop due to its nutritional composition. In this study, five quinoa grains from different geographical origin (Real, CHEN 252, Regalona, BO25 and UDc9) were discriminated using a combination of FT-MIR and FT-NIR spectra as input for principal component analysis (PCA), cluster analysis (CA) and soft independent modelling class analogy (SIMCA). The results obtained from PCA and CA show a great power of discrimination, with an average silhouette width value of 0.96. Moreover, SIMCA showed an error rate and accuracy values of 0 and 1 respectively with only 4% misclassified samples. A relationship between each principal component and the most important variables for the discrimination were mainly due to vibrations of several oleofins groups (C-H, C-H2, C-H3), alkene group (-CH=CH-), hydroxyl group (O-H) and Amides I and II vibrational modes.
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