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Alissa Drees1, Bernadette Bockmayr2, Michael Bockmayr3,4
1Hamburg School of Food Science, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Nutmeg is a popular spice often used in ground form, which makes it highly susceptible to food fraud. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to detect adulteration of ground nutmeg with nutmeg shell via Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy. For this purpose, 36 authentic nutmeg samples and 10 nutmeg shell samples were analyzed pure and in mixtures with up to 50% shell content. The spectra plot as well as a principal component analysis showed a clear separation trend as a function of shell content. A support vector machine regression used for shell content prediction achieved an R2 of 0.944 in the range of 0-10%. The limit of detection of the prediction model was estimated to be 1.5% nutmeg shell. Based on random sub-sampling, the likelihood was found to be 2% that a pure nutmeg sample is predicted with a nutmeg shell content of >1%. The results confirm the suitability of FT-NIR spectroscopy for rapid detection and quantitation of the shell content in ground nutmeg.
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