Qualitative and quantitative analysis of peanut adulteration in almond powder samples using multi-elemental fingerprinting combined with multivariate data analysis methods. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this study, adulteration of almond powder samples with peanut was analyzed using multi-elemental fingerprinting based on inductively coupled plasma optical emission measurements (ICP-OES) combined with chemometric methods. The ability of multivariate data analysis approaches, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and principal component analysis-linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA), to achieve differentiation of samples and as partial ...