Quality Evaluation of Food Products Using Multivariate Analysis (1): Analysis of Metabolites in Tomato Juice

User Benefits

- Smart Metabolites Database™ enables highly sensitive simultaneous analysis of hydrophilic metabolites. - Distinctive components between different samples can be identified by multivariate analysis. - Multivariate analysis using MRM data is easily possible by Traverse MS software.

Introduction

In the food and beverage markets, many products that offer some form of added value in addition to taste have been developed and are marketed as foods with health claims, which capture health-oriented needs, and various products in the high-end price range, which allow consumers to enjoy a sense of closer to the original materials, i.e., more natural, high-class feeling or luxury. Product differentiation is conducted by using materials, manufacturing process, and distribution process which are different from those of general products.Components such as sugars, nucleic acids, amino acids, organic acids, and fatty acids contained in food products differ depending on the type of product and the manufacturing process, and influence the quality of the products, including their taste, functional components, and shelf life. In this article, the objective was to identify the distinctive components in three types of commercially-available tomato juice. A simultaneous analysis of hydrophilic components was carried out by using the Smart Metabolites Database, and differences in the components of the samples were analyzed by the Traverse MS multivariate analysis software. The results are introduced in the following.

January 27, 2021 GMT