ArticleHeliyon2023
Comparison of color spectrophotometer and Vis/NIR spectroscopy on assessing natural pigments of cucumber applied with different ethephon concentrations.
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- The Role of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Food Quality Assurance: A Review of the Past Two Decades.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
In recent decades, the development of non-destructive measurement methods for agricultural commodities has gained a lot of attention among scientists, but these techniques have different levels of accuracy for each instrument used. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the prediction accuracy of natural pigments, such as Total Carotenoid Content (TCC) and Total Flavonoid Content (TFC) using a color spectrophotometer and Visible/Near-Infrared (Vis/NIR) spectroscopy (381-1065 nm). The effect of ethephon concentration on the spectral characteristics and the accuracy of predicting pigments was studied. The samples used include cucumber fruit, which consisted of the 'Mars', 'Vanesa', and 'Roberto' varieties. During the planting of the fruit, ethephon was applied at different concentrations of 0 ppm, 150 ppm, and 300 ppm. The results showed that the best accuracy for predicting TCC was obtained through a color spectrophotometer (R
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