Abstract
This study investigated the effectiveness of SIFT-MS versus chemical profiling, both coupled to multivariate data analysis, to classify 95 Extra Virgin Argan Oils (EVAO), originating from five Moroccan Argan forest locations. The full scan option of SIFT-MS, is suitable to indicate the geographic origin of EVAO based on the fingerprints obtained using the three chemical ionization precursors (H3O+, NO+ and O2 +). The chemical profiling (including acidity, peroxide value, spectrophotometric indices, fatty acids, tocopherols- and sterols composition) was also used for classification. Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), and support vector machines (SVM), were compared. The SIFT-MS data were therefore fed to variable-selection methods to find potential biomarkers for classification. The classification models based either on chemical profiling or SIFT-MS data were able to classify the samples with high accuracy. SIFT-MS was found to be advantageous for rapid geographic classification.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Food Chemistry |
Volume | 263 |
Pages (from-to) | 8-17 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISSN | 0308-8146 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Oct 2018 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are grateful to the staff of the Interscience company Breda (The Nederlands) for providing the SIFT-MS instrument. They appreciate the support of “Mohammed VI Foundation for Research and Protection of the Argan Tree”. The authors also thankful and acknowledge the financial support of FWO-Vlaanderen, VLIR-UOS (Team project-VLIR 345 MA2017), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ( VUB ) and the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy-Rabat ( FMPR ). M.K. is thankful to Pr. Jamal Taoufik and Pr. Mohamed Adnaoui (vice-doyen and doyen of FMPR) for the travel grants support. Appendix A
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Fields of Science
- Argan oil
- Chemometric class-modeling
- Classification methods
- Fingerprints
- Geographical origin
- Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry