Non-destructive determination of vitamin C and lycopene contents of intact cv. Newton tomatoes using NIR spectroscopy
Abstract
Lycopene and vitamin C are two vital compositions of tomatoes.
Analytical quantification of these components using common destructive methods is
expensive and time consuming. In this study, the feasibility of using near-infrared
(NIR) spectroscopy at the range of 930-1650nm was assessed to measure the
lycopene and vitamin C contents of intact cv. Newton tomatoes. To develop
prediction models based on spectral data and analytical measurements achieved
using common destructive methods, partial least squares (PLS) regression was utilized.
Before modeling, some pre-processing techniques were also used to reduce the irrelevant
data from the spectra. The prediction accuracy of the models was evaluated using
root mean square error of cross validation (RMSECV), correlation coefficient (rcv)
and residual predictive deviation (RPD). The best prediction models had RMSECV
of 2.256 µg g-1 and 1.087 mg 100g-1, rcv of
0.840 and 0.818, and RPD of 1.835 and 1.701 for lycopene and vitamin C contents,
respectively. Results indicated that NIR spectroscopy can predict the lycopene
and vitamin C contents of tomato non-destructively with good and fair accuracy,
respectively.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 31, 2018
Submission Date
May 14, 2018
Acceptance Date
October 24, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 28 Number: 4
