Rapid and non-destructive discrimination of special-grade flat green tea using Near-infrared spectroscopy.

Special-grade green tea is a premium tea product with the best rank and high value. Special-grade green tea is normally classified by panel sensory evaluation which is time and sample costly. Near-infrared spectroscopy is considered as a promising rapid and non-destructive analytical technique for food quality evaluation and grading. This study established a discrimination method of special-grade flat green tea using Near-infrared spectroscopy. Full spectrum was used for partial least squares (PLS) modelling to predict the sensory scores of green tea, while specific spectral regions were used for synergy interval-partial least squares (siPLS) modelling. The best performance was achieved by the siPLS model of MSC + Mean Centering pretreatments and subintervals from 15 intervals. The optimal model was used to discriminate special-grade flat green tea with the prediction accuracy of 97% and 93% in the cross-validation and external validation respectively. The chemical compositions of green tea samples were also analyzed, including polyphenols (total polyphenols, catechins and flavonol glycosides), alkaloids and amino acids. Principal components analysis result showed that there is potential correlation between specific spectral regions and the presence of polyphenols and alkaloids. Thus, NIR technique is a practical method for rapid and non-destructive discrimination of special-grade flat green tea with chemical support.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Spectrochimica Acta Part A - Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

• Publication date

  2019-01-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.saa.2018.07.085PMID 30121024
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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