Study on the digitized and quantified evaluating method for the super information cluster of traditional Chinese medicine ultraviolet spectral fingerprints

UV Fingerprinting Approaches for Quality Control Analyses of Food and Functional Food Coupled to Chemometrics: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Trends and Applications

(1) Background: Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy is a common analytical tool to detect chromophore in compounds by monitoring absorbance spectral wavelengths. Further, it could provide spectral information about complex conjugated systems in mixtures aided by chemometric tools to visualize large UV-Vis datasets as typical in food samples. This review provides novel insight on UV-Vis applications in the last 20 years, as an advanced analytical tool in the quality control of food and dietary supplements, as well as several other applications, including chemotaxonomy, authentication, fingerprinting, and stability studies. (2) Conclusions: A critical assessment of the value of UV application and its novel trends in the quality control (QC) of nutraceuticals reveals the advantages and limitations, focusing on areas where future advancements are in need. Although simple, UV and its novel trends present potential analytical tools with an acceptable error for QC applications from a non-targeted perspective compared to other expensive spectral tools.

Study on the digitized and quantified evaluating method for super information characteristics of herbal preparation by infrared spectrum fingerprints

This paper aims to establish the infrared spectrum fingerprint (IRFP) in the absorbing region of 4,000-400 cm(-1) and its first derivative infrared spectrum fingerprints (d-IRFP) of ginkgo tablet (GT). And set up theories of the digitized and quantified evaluating method for super information characteristics by IRFPs of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) which consists of the IRFP index, information index, fluctuation index, information fluctuation index and the quantified infrared fingerprint method (QIFM). Direct tabletting method was applied during the data collection of the IRFPs of 14 batches of GTs by Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. In terms of the digitized features, QIFM and similarity analysis of d-IRFP, sample S4 and S7 were evaluated as suspected outliers while the qualities of S1, S2, S6 and S12 were less well and the rests were relatively good. The assessing approach makes the expression and processing of superposed information in IRFP of TCM digitized simple and effective. What's more, an approach which can test total chemical contents in the complex system of TCM rapidly, simply and accurately was achieved by the application of QIFM based on IR technique. Finally, the quantitative and digitized infrared fingerprinting method was established as a novel approach to evaluate the quality of TCM.