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Determining the geographical origin of common buckwheat from China by multivariate analysis based on mineral elements, amino acids and vitamins
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- This study aimed to establish a method for distinguishing the geographical origin of common buckwheat from Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces in China. Three chemical families including mineral elements, vitamins and amino acids of 48 samples from different geographical origins were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA), cluster analysis (CA) and linear discriminate analysis (LDA) for this purpose. LDA clearly discriminated the geographical origin of common buckwheat samples grown in three regions, and gave a high correct classification rate of 95.8% and satisfactory cross-validation rate of 91.7%. Some variables (Mn, VPP, Se, Gly, Cu, Asp, Fe, and Ala) significantly contributed to the ability to discriminate the geographical origin of the common buckwheat. These results demonstrated that the proposed method is a powerful tool for controlling the geographical origin of common buckwheat by governmental administration and protecting consumers from improper domestic labeling. However, the discriminant method still needs to be further validated using more reliable data.
- Subjects :
- China
Multivariate analysis
lcsh:Medicine
Mineralogy
Biology
Inner mongolia
01 natural sciences
Article
Classification rate
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Cluster Analysis
Food science
Amino Acids
lcsh:Science
chemistry.chemical_classification
Minerals
Principal Component Analysis
Multidisciplinary
Geography
lcsh:R
010401 analytical chemistry
Discriminant Analysis
Vitamins
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Linear discriminant analysis
040401 food science
0104 chemical sciences
Amino acid
chemistry
Principal component analysis
lcsh:Q
Fagopyrum
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e764fc5ef998eb9a57b2ccd0eaacc74d