Enhancing Traceability of Italian Almonds through IR Spectroscopy and Chemometric Classifiers

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 13; no. 23; p. 12765
• Main Authors: Scappaticci, Claudia, Foschi, Martina, Plaku, Alessio, Biancolillo, Alessandra, D’Archivio, Angelo Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Almond; Classification; Discriminant analysis; FT-IR; geographical origin; nuts; Spectrum analysis; traceability; United States > US; Italy

Almonds are the seeds of the almond (Prunus Amygdalus) tree and are a nut consumed worldwide. The present study utilized the ATR FT-IR technique followed by a chemometric analysis to develop predictive models for determining the geographical origin of almonds from three regions in Southern Italy (Ap...