Food Chemistry
Amir Kazemi; Asghar Mahmoudi; Mostafa Khojastehnazhand; Seyyed Hossein Fattahi
Abstract
Wheat flour is one of the most important and strategic food resources especially in developing countries. The addition of Sodium hydrosulfite to flour for improving some appearance features can have dangerous impacts on the consumer health. Therefore, detection of this harmful substance is great practical ...
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Wheat flour is one of the most important and strategic food resources especially in developing countries. The addition of Sodium hydrosulfite to flour for improving some appearance features can have dangerous impacts on the consumer health. Therefore, detection of this harmful substance is great practical significance. In the present study, the potential of Fourier transform-mid infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy in 400-4000 cm-1 for the fast detection of Sodium hydrosulfite powder in wheat flour was investigated. After getting the spectral data from samples, firstly some preprocessing methods were used to correct harmful and unwanted effects on spectral data, and then Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as unsupervised and Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models as supervised classification models and Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) as regression model were applied to detect and quantify the adulteration in pure flour samples. The best outcomes were the accuracy of 86.66 and 86.70 for SVM and ANN models with S-G + D2 + SNV preprocessing, respectively and R2p = 0.99 For PLSR model.
Roksaneh Rouhani; Soudabeh Einafshar; Reihaneh Ahmadzadeh Ghavidel
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Sepals and petals are byproducts from saffron production process that waste without any use in Iran. These byproducts containing a lot of anthocyanin and natural antioxidants.The aim of this study is determine efficiency of extraction and measurement of antioxidant activity and anthocyanin pigments of ...
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Sepals and petals are byproducts from saffron production process that waste without any use in Iran. These byproducts containing a lot of anthocyanin and natural antioxidants.The aim of this study is determine efficiency of extraction and measurement of antioxidant activity and anthocyanin pigments of pollen and anther of saffron flower ,using mixed solvent of ethanol and hydrochloridic acid 1.5 N (85:15) by ultrasonic waves. Therefore, the time factors (5, 15, 25 minutes) and sound intensity (20, 60 and 100%) were usedThe results showed that the most efficient extraction of samples (54/48%) was extracted in 15 minute and 100% of sound intensity, and the maximum measure of anthocyanin compounds (48.83 mg/ml), total phenolic compounds (36.54 mg/ml), power of reviving the anti-radical DPPH activity of the extracts (335.7 mg/ml) and the power of scavenging Fe III (431.1µmol/lit Fe III), the best sample in all of the exams was extracted in 10 minutes and 100% of sound intensity. So, the optimized situation for extraction of anthocyanin compounds by ultrasound waves was time 15 min and 100% about sound intensity.
Nasrin Jamshidi; Babak Ghanbarzadeh; Jalal Dehghan nia; Mahood Sowti Khiabani; Ali Akbar Entezami
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Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) is a type of nanomaterial which is produced by partial hydrolysis of cellulose and elimination of its amorphous regions. CNC has several advantages such biodegradability and safety toward human health. In this study, CNC was produced from cotton linters and methods such transmission ...
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Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) is a type of nanomaterial which is produced by partial hydrolysis of cellulose and elimination of its amorphous regions. CNC has several advantages such biodegradability and safety toward human health. In this study, CNC was produced from cotton linters and methods such transmission electron microscopy which were used for confirmation of nanoscale size production of cellulose crystals. Due to the disadvantages of pure starch films, in the present research, for improving the properties of plasticized starch-PVOH films, from nanoparticles CNC and TiO2 are used together, then effects of nanoparticles and glycerol determined on physical properties by response surface methodology (RSM). CNC and GLY showed significant linear effects on ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of nanocomposit and there were significant interaction effects between TiO2 and CNC, and also between GLY and TiO2. The optimum levels of TiO2, CNC and GLY for obtaining maximum UTS were as 0.118, 0.6 g and 1.06 ml, respectively. In addition, the TiO2 concentration had linear and quadratic effect on the contact angles of bionanocomposites and optimum levels of TiO2, CNC and GLY for obtaining maximum contact angles were 0.112, 0.299 g and 1.06 ml, respectively. UV-visible spectroscopy studies in the wavelength range 200–800 nm showed that adding of CNC and TiO2 decrease the light transmission and increase the opacity, adding of glycerol increase the light transmission and decrease the opacity.
