(Press-News.org) Tsukuba, Japan—Spices and other plant-derived products contain many active components, such as polyphenols and flavonoids. However, even the slightest variations in conditions can considerably affect the extraction efficiency of these active components, posing challenges in determining the exact quantity of active components in the extract solution.
In this study, researchers comprehensively measured the fluorescence emitted by polyphenols and flavonoids and analyzed the acquired data using machine learning methods. This approach yielded a highly accurate, simple, and rapid method of estimating the total polyphenol and flavonoid contents and antioxidant capacity. The crucial factor in achieving accuracy was to integrate measurements acquired at multiple concentrations. While the conventional practice during measuring fluorescence involves diluting the sample to a single concentration, the wide variation in component amounts in plant extracts renders determining a universally suitable dilution concentration. Consequently, the researchers conducted exhaustive fluorescence measurements at four different dilution levels and integrated this data into the machine learning process.
Therefore, machine learning was able to accurately estimate important indices for evaluating spice extracts, including the total polyphenol content, total flavonoid content, antioxidant capacity, and reducing capacity. Notably, the optical measurement's estimation of total flavonoid content, in particular, represents a groundbreaking achievement, marking the effectiveness of this method where such estimations have not been conducted optically in the past.
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This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H03891 and 22J11143 and the Sapporo Bioscience Foundation.
Original Paper
Title of original paper:
Utilization of multiple-dilution fluorescence fingerprint facilitates prediction of chemical attributes in spice extracts
Journal:
Food Chemistry
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.138028
Correspondence
Assistant Professor KOKAWA, Mito
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Postdoctoral (PD) Research Fellow Thi Bao Chau Bui
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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