Chemometric Modeling of Coffee Sensory Notes through Their Chemical Signatures: Potential and Limits in Defining an Analytical Tool for Quality Control

Autor: Carlo Bicchi, Patrizia Rubiolo, Davide Bressanello, Erica Liberto, Manuela Rosanna Ruosi, Chiara Cordero, Barbara Sgorbini, Gloria Pellegrino
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Quality Control
Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject
HS-SPME-GC-MS
Sensory system
Sensory profile
Machine learning
computer.software_genre
Coffee
01 natural sciences
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Chemometrics
chemometrics
coffee aroma
sensory note fingerprints
Chemistry (all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Discriminative model
Food Quality
Humans
Quality (business)
Solid Phase Microextraction
Aroma
media_common
Principal Component Analysis
Volatile Organic Compounds
biology
business.industry
010401 analytical chemistry
Reproducibility of Results
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Chemistry
biology.organism_classification
040401 food science
0104 chemical sciences
Models
Chemical

Taste
Odorants
Artificial intelligence
Wine tasting
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
computer
Predictive modelling
Zdroj: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 66:7096-7109
ISSN: 1520-5118
0021-8561
Popis: Aroma is a primary hedonic aspect of a good coffee. Coffee aroma quality is generally defined by cup tasting, which however is time-consuming in terms of panel training and alignment and too subjective. It is challenging to define a relationship between chemical profile and aroma sensory impact, but it might provide an objective evaluation of industrial products. This study aimed to define the chemical signature of coffee sensory notes, to develop prediction models based on analytical measurements for use at the control level. In particular, the sensory profile was linked with the chemical composition defined by HS-SPME-GC-MS, using a chemometric-driven approach. The strategy was found to be discriminative and informative, identifying aroma compounds characteristic of the selected sensory notes. The predictive ability in defining the sensory scores of each aroma note was used as a validation tool for the chemical signatures characterized. The most reliable models were those obtained for woody, bitter, and acidic properties, whose selected volatiles reliably represented the sensory note fingerprints. Prediction models could be exploited in quality control, but compromises must be determined if they are to become complementary to panel tasting.
Databáze: OpenAIRE