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Jang M, Bae G, Kwon YM, Cho JH, Lee DH, Kang S, Yim S, Myung S, Lim J, Lee SS, Song W, An K. Artificial Q-Grader: Machine Learning-Enabled Intelligent Olfactory and Gustatory Sensing System. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2308976. [PMID: 38582529 PMCID: PMC11186046 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202308976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
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Portable and personalized artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sensors mimicking human olfactory and gustatory systems have immense potential for the large-scale deployment and autonomous monitoring systems of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this study, an artificial Q-grader comprising surface-engineered zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films is developed as the artificial nose, tongue, and AI-based statistical data analysis as the artificial brain for identifying both aroma and flavor chemicals in coffee beans. A poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)/ZnO thin film transistor (TFT)-based liquid sensor is the artificial tongue, and an Au, Ag, or Pd nanoparticles/ZnO nanohybrid gas sensor is the artificial nose. In order to classify the flavor of coffee beans (acetic acid (sourness), ethyl butyrate and 2-furanmethanol (sweetness), caffeine (bitterness)) and the origin of coffee beans (Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Colombia-decaffeine), rational combination of TFT transfer and dynamic response curves capture the liquids and gases-dependent electrical transport behavior and principal component analysis (PCA)-assisted machine learning (ML) is implemented. A PCA-assisted ML model distinguished the four target flavors with >92% prediction accuracy. ML-based regression model predicts the flavor chemical concentrations with >99% accuracy. Also, the classification model successfully distinguished four different types of coffee-bean with 100% accuracy.
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- Moonjeong Jang
- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
- National Nano Fab Center (NNFC)Daejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
- Department of Medical Artificial IntelligenceKonyang UniversityDaejeon35365Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
- School of Electronic and Electrical EngineeringSunkyunkwan UniversitySuwon16419Republic of Korea
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- Thin Film Materials Research CenterKorea Research Institute of Chemical TechnologyDaejeon34114Republic of Korea
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Poeta E, Liboà A, Mistrali S, Núñez-Carmona E, Sberveglieri V. Nanotechnology and E-Sensing for Food Chain Quality and Safety. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:8429. [PMID: 37896524 PMCID: PMC10610592 DOI: 10.3390/s23208429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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Nowadays, it is well known that sensors have an enormous impact on our life, using streams of data to make life-changing decisions. Every single aspect of our day is monitored via thousands of sensors, and the benefits we can obtain are enormous. With the increasing demand for food quality, food safety has become one of the main focuses of our society. However, fresh foods are subject to spoilage due to the action of microorganisms, enzymes, and oxidation during storage. Nanotechnology can be applied in the food industry to support packaged products and extend their shelf life. Chemical composition and sensory attributes are quality markers which require innovative assessment methods, as existing ones are rather difficult to implement, labour-intensive, and expensive. E-sensing devices, such as vision systems, electronic noses, and electronic tongues, overcome many of these drawbacks. Nanotechnology holds great promise to provide benefits not just within food products but also around food products. In fact, nanotechnology introduces new chances for innovation in the food industry at immense speed. This review describes the food application fields of nanotechnologies; in particular, metal oxide sensors (MOS) will be presented.
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- Elisabetta Poeta
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via J.F. Kennedy, 17/i, 42124 Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 11/a, 43124 Parma, PR, Italy;
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- Nano Sensor System srl (NASYS), Via Alfonso Catalani, 9, 42124 Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy;
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- National Research Council, Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (CNR-IBBR), Via J.F. Kennedy, 17/i, 42124 Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy;
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- Nano Sensor System srl (NASYS), Via Alfonso Catalani, 9, 42124 Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy;
- National Research Council, Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (CNR-IBBR), Via J.F. Kennedy, 17/i, 42124 Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy;
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Civet coffee is considered as highly marketable and rare. This specialty coffee has a special flavor and higher price relative to regular coffee, and it is restricted in supply. Establishing a straightforward and efficient approach to distinguish Civet coffee for quality; likewise, consumer protection is fundamental. This study utilized visible spectroscopy as a non-destructive and quick technique to obtain the absorbance, ranging from 450 nm to 650 nm, of the civet coffee and non-civet coffee samples. Overall, 160 samples were analyzed, and the total spectra accumulated was 960. The data gathered from the first 120 samples were fed to the classification learner application and were used as a training data set. The remaining samples were used for testing the classification algorithm. The study shows that civet coffee bean samples have lower absorbance values in visible spectra than non-civet coffee bean samples. The process yields 96.7 % to 100 % classification scores for quadratic discriminant analysis and logistic regression. Among the two classification algorithms, logistic regression generated the fastest training time of 14.050 seconds. The application of visible spectroscopy combined with data mining algorithms is effective in discriminating civet coffee from non-civet coffee.
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Review of Analytical Methods to Detect Adulteration in Coffee. J AOAC Int 2020; 103:295-305. [DOI: 10.1093/jaocint/qsz019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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As one of the most consumed beverages in the world, coffee plays many major socioeconomical roles in various regions. Because of the wide coffee varieties available in the marketplaces, and the substantial price gaps between them (e.g., Arabica versus Robusta; speciality versus commodity coffees), coffees are susceptible to intentional or accidental adulteration. Therefore, there is a sustaining interest from the producers and regulatory agents to develop protocols to detect fraudulent practices. In general, strategies to authenticate coffee are based on targeted chemical profile analyses to determine specific markers of adulterants, or nontargeted analyses based on the “fingerprinting” concept. This paper reviews the literature related to chemometric approaches to discriminate coffees based on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, chromatography, infrared/Raman spectroscopy, and array sensors/indicators. In terms of chemical profiling, the paper focuses on the detection of diterpenes, homostachydrine, phenolic acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, triacylglycerols, and deoxyribonucleic acid. Finally, the prospects of coffee authentication are discussed.
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Pérez-Ràfols C, Serrano N, Ariño C, Esteban M, Díaz-Cruz JM. Voltammetric Electronic Tongues in Food Analysis. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19194261. [PMID: 31575062 PMCID: PMC6806306 DOI: 10.3390/s19194261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A critical revision is made on recent applications of voltammetric electronic tongues in the field of food analysis. Relevant works are discussed dealing with the discrimination of food samples of different type, origin, age and quality and with the prediction of the concentration of key substances and significant indexes related to food quality.
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- Clara Pérez-Ràfols
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain; (C.P.-R.); (N.S.); (C.A.); (M.E.)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain; (C.P.-R.); (N.S.); (C.A.); (M.E.)
- Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua (IdRA) of the University of Barcelona. Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain; (C.P.-R.); (N.S.); (C.A.); (M.E.)
- Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua (IdRA) of the University of Barcelona. Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain; (C.P.-R.); (N.S.); (C.A.); (M.E.)
- Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua (IdRA) of the University of Barcelona. Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain; (C.P.-R.); (N.S.); (C.A.); (M.E.)
- Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua (IdRA) of the University of Barcelona. Martí i Franquès 1-11, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-93-402-1796
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Daikuzono CM, Delaney C, Morrin A, Diamond D, Florea L, Oliveira ON. Paper based electronic tongue - a low-cost solution for the distinction of sugar type and apple juice brand. Analyst 2019; 144:2827-2832. [PMID: 30887969 DOI: 10.1039/c8an01934g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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This work reports on a low cost microfluidic electronic tongue (e-tongue) made with carbon interdigitated electrodes, printed on paper, and coated with boronic acid-containing hydrogels. Using capacitance measurements, the e-tongue was capable of distinguishing between different types of sugars (e.g. glucose, fructose and sucrose), in addition to distinguishing between commercial brands of apple juice using a small volume of sample (6 μL). The channels of the microfluidic e-tongue were made using a wax printer, and were modified with hydrogels containing acrylamide copolymerized with 5 or 20 mol% 3-(acrylamido) phenyl boronic acid (Am-PBA), or a crosslinked homopolymeric hydrogel based on N-(2-boronobenzyl)-2-hydroxy-N,N-dimethylethan-1-aminium-3-sulfopropyl acrylate (DMA-PBA). Such hydrogels, containing a phenyl boronic acid (PBA) moiety, can bind saccharides. Combining various hydrogels of this nature in an e-tongue device enabled discrimination between apple juices, which are known to contain higher amounts of fructose compared to glucose or sucrose. Changes in capacitance were captured with impedance spectroscopy in the frequency range from 0.1 to 10 MHz for solutions with varying concentrations of glucose, fructose and sucrose (from 0 to 0.056 g mL-1). The capacitance data were treated with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Interactive Document Map (IDMAP), which then correlated overall sugar content from different brands of apple juice. This low-cost, easy-to-use, disposable e-tongue offers great potential in the routine analysis of food and beverages, while offering comparative performance to alternatives in the literature.
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- Cristiane M Daikuzono
- São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, CP 369, 13560-970, São Carlos, Brazil.
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Dong W, Hu R, Long Y, Li H, Zhang Y, Zhu K, Chu Z. Comparative evaluation of the volatile profiles and taste properties of roasted coffee beans as affected by drying method and detected by electronic nose, electronic tongue, and HS-SPME-GC-MS. Food Chem 2018; 272:723-731. [PMID: 30309604 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.08.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In this study, room-temperature drying, solar drying, heat pump drying (HPD), hot-air drying, and freeze drying were applied to investigate the volatile profiles and taste properties of roasted coffee beans by using electronic nose, electronic tongue, and headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS). Results indicated that the drying process markedly affected pH, total titratable acidity, total solids, and total soluble solids. Significant differences existed among all samples based on drying method; and the HPD method was superior for preserving ketones, phenols, and esters. Principal component analysis (PCA) combined with E-nose and E-tongue radar charts as well as the fingerprint of HS-SPME-GC-MS could clearly discriminate samples from different drying methods, with results obtained from hierarchical cluster analysis (the Euclidean distance is 0.75) being in agreement with those of PCA. These findings may provide a theoretical basis for the dehydration of coffee beans and other similar thermo-sensitive agricultural products.
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- Wenjiang Dong
- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China.
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China.
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Wanning, Hainan 571533, China
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de Morais TCB, Rodrigues DR, de Carvalho Polari Souto UT, Lemos SG. A simple voltammetric electronic tongue for the analysis of coffee adulterations. Food Chem 2018; 273:31-38. [PMID: 30292371 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.04.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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This work presents a simple and low-cost analytical approach to detect adulterations in ground roasted coffee by using voltammetry and chemometrics. The voltammogram of a coffee extract (prepared as simulating a home-made coffee cup) obtained with a single working electrode is submitted to pattern recognition analysis preceded by variable selection to detect the addition of coffee husks and sticks (adulterated/unadulterated), or evaluate the shelf-life condition (expired/unexpired). Two pattern recognition methods were tested: linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with variable selection by successive projections algorithm (SPA), or genetic algorithm (GA); and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Both LDA models presented satisfactory results. The voltammograms were also evaluated for the quantitative determination of the percentage of impurities in ground roasted coffees. PLS and multivariate linear regression (MLR) preceded by variable selection with SPA or GA were evaluated. An excellent predictive power (RMSEP = 0.05%) was obtained with MLR aided by GA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraíba, C.P. 5093, 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
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Differentiation of Chinese robusta coffees according to species, using a combined electronic nose and tongue, with the aid of chemometrics. Food Chem 2017; 229:743-751. [PMID: 28372239 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.02.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Revised: 02/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Electronic nose and tongue sensors and chemometric multivariate analysis were applied to characterize and classify 7 Chinese robusta coffee cultivars with different roasting degrees. Analytical data were obtained from 126 samples of roasted coffee beans distributed in the Hainan Province of China. Physicochemical qualities, such as the pH, titratable acidity (TA), total soluble solids (TSS), total solids (TS), and TSS/TA ratio, were determined by wet chemistry methods. Data fusion strategies were investigated to improve the performance of models relative to the performance of a single technique. Clear classification of all the studied coffee samples was achieved by principal component analysis, K-nearest neighbour analysis, partial least squares discriminant analysis, and a back-propagation artificial neural network. Quantitative models were established between the sensor responses and the reference physicochemical qualities, using partial least squares regression (PLSR). The PLSR model with a fusion data set was considered the best model for determining the quality parameters.
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