Wasnik PG, Menon RR, Sivaram M, Nath BS, Balasubramanyam BV, Manjunatha M. Development of mathematical model for prediction of adulteration levels of cow
ghee with vegetable fat using image analysis.
Journal of Food Science and Technology 2019;
56:2320-2325. [PMID:
30996466 DOI:
10.1007/s13197-019-03677-x]
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Abstract
The present study was undertaken to develop a protocol for acquisition and analysis of images of ghee samples to derive mathematical parameters related to adulteration of cow ghee with vegetable fat and to develop a model to predict the adulteration levels. The images acquired using a flatbed scanner were quantified in terms of their pixel intensity, colour, morphological, textural and skeleton parameters using ImageJ software. The selected parameters were measured for images of pure cow ghee and compared with that obtained for ghee adulterated with 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% vegetable fat. The parameters were assessed for their ability to detect the fixed adulteration levels on a discrete scale was assessed using discriminant analysis and the adulteration levels of the samples were correctly classified to the extent of 92.2%. An equation for predicting adulteration levels on a continuous scale using regression analysis (adjusted R 2 value 0.94) was developed, tested and further validated using a fresh data set including a commercially popular market sample of ghee giving a good fit (R 2 value of 0.85).
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