Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey

Honey is considered as a premium food produced by honeybees. It is highly appreciated by consumers around the world and raises a major concern nowadays which is ensuring its authenticity in respect to its production and its botanical origin. In Lebanon, honey is mainly multifloral which makes its au...

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Main Authors: Rita El Hajj, Wadih Skaff, Nathalie Estephan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-01-01
Series:Journal of Spectroscopy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/3370665
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description Honey is considered as a premium food produced by honeybees. It is highly appreciated by consumers around the world and raises a major concern nowadays which is ensuring its authenticity in respect to its production and its botanical origin. In Lebanon, honey is mainly multifloral which makes its authentication rather difficult. While mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis has proven to be successful in authenticating unifloral honey, the challenge with Lebanese honey lies in assessing its performance with multifloral honey. Therefore, this work aims to test the performance of common components analysis (CCA) applied on mid-infrared spectra in the authentication of multifloral Lebanese honey. For this purpose, 96 multifloral Lebanese honey samples of different floral sources were collected from different regions of the Lebanese territory and analyzed using MIR spectroscopy. CCA applied to the spectral data, allowed a separation between honeydew honey samples and floral honey samples. In addition, honey samples collected from the Bekaa plain region were differentiated from the other honey samples collected from all the other Lebanese geographical regions. This discrimination between the groups of honey samples is based essentially on their sugar composition.
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spelling doaj-art-9a7822eafb7d46b9ab9f1a658246d2192025-02-03T07:26:21ZengWileyJournal of Spectroscopy2314-49392024-01-01202410.1155/2024/3370665Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese HoneyRita El Hajj0Wadih Skaff1Nathalie Estephan2Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryFood Industry and Agriculture UnitDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryHoney is considered as a premium food produced by honeybees. It is highly appreciated by consumers around the world and raises a major concern nowadays which is ensuring its authenticity in respect to its production and its botanical origin. In Lebanon, honey is mainly multifloral which makes its authentication rather difficult. While mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis has proven to be successful in authenticating unifloral honey, the challenge with Lebanese honey lies in assessing its performance with multifloral honey. Therefore, this work aims to test the performance of common components analysis (CCA) applied on mid-infrared spectra in the authentication of multifloral Lebanese honey. For this purpose, 96 multifloral Lebanese honey samples of different floral sources were collected from different regions of the Lebanese territory and analyzed using MIR spectroscopy. CCA applied to the spectral data, allowed a separation between honeydew honey samples and floral honey samples. In addition, honey samples collected from the Bekaa plain region were differentiated from the other honey samples collected from all the other Lebanese geographical regions. This discrimination between the groups of honey samples is based essentially on their sugar composition.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/3370665
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Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey
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title Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey
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title_fullStr Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey
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title_short Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey
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