Rapid quantification of royal jelly quality by mid-infrared spectroscopy coupled with backpropagation neural network.

Journal: Food chemistry
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Abstract

Royal jelly is rich in nutrients but its quality is greatly affected by storage conditions. To determine the quality of royal jelly accurately and quickly, a qualitative discrimination model was established based on the fusion of conventional parameters and mid-infrared spectrum, using support vector machine. The prediction models for three representative quality parameters were developed by the backpropagation neural network with various algorithms. The results demonstrated that the recognition rate of the multi-source information fusion model was increased to 100% when compared with that of the spectral data preprocessed by Savitzky-golay smoothing (95.83%). The mean square errors of the constructed model for moisture, water-soluble protein, and total sugar were 0.0032, 0.0058, and 0.0069, respectively. The constructed model had an ensured accuracy for the calibration set, with the correlation coefficient of prediction maintained at 0.9353, 0.9533, and 0.9563, which could meet the requirement of non-destructive rapid detection of royal jelly quality.

Authors

  • Di Chen
    Department of Gastroenterology, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China. Electronic address: 2389446889@qq.com.
  • Cheng Guo
    Engineering Research Center of Automotive Electrics and Control Technology, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. Electronic address: gchope@hnu.edu.cn.
  • Wenjing Lu
    Nursing Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Military Medical University, Xi'an 710038, China.
  • Cen Zhang
    State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Food Sciences, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
  • Chaogeng Xiao
    State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Food Sciences, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China. Electronic address: xiaochaogeng@163.com.