Title
Portable near infrared spectroscopy as a tool for fresh tomato quality control analysis in the field
Date Issued
01 April 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Borba K.R.
Aykas D.P.
Milani M.I.
Colnago L.A.
Ferreira M.D.
Universidad Estatal de Ohio
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
Portable spectrometers are promising tools that can be an alternative way, for various purposes, of analyzing food quality, such as monitoring in a few seconds the internal quality during fruit ripening in the field. A portable/handheld (palm-sized) near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer (Neospectra, Si-ware) with spectral range of 1295-2611 nm, equipped with a micro- electro-mechanical system (MEMs), was used to develop prediction models to evaluate tomato quality attributes non-destructively. Soluble solid content (SSC), fructose, glucose, titratable acidity (TA), ascorbic, and citric acid contents of different types of fresh tomatoes were analyzed with standard methods, and those values were correlated to spectral data by partial least squares regression (PLSR). Fresh tomato samples were obtained in 2018 and 2019 crops in commercial production, and four fruit types were evaluated: Roma, round, grape, and cherry tomatoes. The large variation in tomato types and having the fruits from distinct years resulted in a wide range in quality parameters enabling robust PLSR models. Results showed accurate prediction and good correlation (Rpred) for SSC = 0.87, glucose = 0.83, fructose = 0.87, ascorbic acid = 0.81, and citric acid = 0.86. Our results support the assertion that a handheld NIR spectrometer has a high potential to simultaneously determine several quality attributes of different types of tomatoes in a practical and fast way.
Volume
11
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioquímica, Biología molecular Alimentos y bebidas Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104069729
Source
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
ISSN of the container
20763417
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by CAPES institution providing the scholarship, grant number "88881.187998/2018-01" and “CNPq-Research Productivity Fellowship”, grant "309043/2016-6 and 302866/2017-5 ". The authors would like to thank Lipman Family Farms (Florida, US) for providing tomato samples.
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