Differentiation of Insect Flours by Elemental Analysis and Chemometrics: A Study Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Mattia Montanaro, Alessandra Biancolillo, Angelo Antonio D’Archivio, Martina Foschi, Mihkel Koel · 2024
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Description
Five authors present a study from two thousand twenty-four on telling insect flours apart by their element content. Flour from crickets, buffalo worms, and mealworms is entering the food supply, and telling the species apart matters for quality and honesty. Their chemical fingerprints may serve where looks cannot.
Samples were digested in acid and read by a mass spectrometry method that detects many elements at trace levels. Statistical classification methods then sorted the flours by their element profiles. The instrument read the elements accurately at micro-trace levels, and the authors compare the classifiers' performance for this identification task.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mattia Montanaro, Alessandra Biancolillo, Angelo Antonio D’Archivio, Martina Foschi, Mihkel Koel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |