Abstract
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was evaluated as a rapid method of predicting arachidonic acid content in powdered oil without the need for oil extraction. NIR spectra of powdered oil samples were obtained with an NIR spectrometer and correlated with arachidonic acid content determined by a modification of the AOCS Method. Partial Least-Squares regression was applied to calculate models for the prediction of arachidonic acid. The model developed with the raw spectra had the best performance in cross-validation (n = 72) and validation (n = 21) with a correlation coefficient of 0.965, and the root mean square error of cross-validation and prediction were both 0.50. The results show that NIR, a well-established and widely applied technique, can be applied to determine the arachidonic acid content in powdered oil.
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Abbreviations
- NIR:
-
Near-infrared
- ARA:
-
Arachidonic acid
- PUFA:
-
Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- FAMEs:
-
Fatty acid methyl esters
- FID:
-
Flame ionization detector
- SNV:
-
Standard normal variate
- MSC:
-
Multiplicative scatter correction
- WT:
-
Wavelet transforms
- OSC:
-
Orthogonal signal correction
- PLS:
-
Partial Least-Squares
- RMSEC:
-
Root mean square error of calibration
- RMSECV:
-
Root mean square error of cross-validation
- RMSEP:
-
Root mean square error of prediction
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by National Key Technology R&D Program (No. 2006BAD27B04), Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in the University (No: IRT0540), and Nanchang University Testing Fund (No.2008034).
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Yang, M., Nie, S., Li, J. et al. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least-Squares Regression for Determination of Arachidonic Acid in Powdered Oil. Lipids 45, 559–565 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-010-3423-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-010-3423-2