Identification and Quantification of Texture Soy Protein in A Mixture with Beef Meat Using ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy in Combination with Chemometric Methods

Document Type: Research article

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1 Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

2 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

3 Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Basic Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Meat, as an important source of protein, is one of the main parts of many people’s diet. Due to
economic interests and thereupon adulteration, there are special concerns on its accurate labeling.
In this study Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy combined with chemometric
techniques (principal component analysis (PCA), artificial neural networks (ANNs), and partial
least square regression (PLS-R)) were employed for discrimination of pure beef meat from textured
soy protein plus detection and quantification of texture soy protein in a mixture with beef meat.
Spectral preprocessing was carried out on each spectra including Savitzki-Golay (SG) smoothing
filter, Standard Normal Vitiate (SNV), scatter correction (MSC), and min-max normalization.
Spectral range 1700–1071 cm-1 was selected for further analysis. Principal component analysis
showed discrete clustering of pure samples. In the next step, supervised artificial neural networks
(ANNs) were performed for classification and discrimination. The results showed classification
accuracy of 100% using this model. Furthermore, PLS-R model correlated the actual and FTIR
estimated values of texture soy protein in beef meat mixture with coefficient of determination
(R2) of 0.976. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that ATR-FTIR spectroscopy along with PCA
and ANNs analysis might potentially replace traditional laborious and time-consuming analytical
techniques to detect adulteration in beef meat as a rapid, low cost, and highly accurate method.

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Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Volume 18, Special Issue
Autumn 2019
Pages 190-197

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