I-Corps: Determination of syrup adulterants and geographical and floral origin of honey using chemometrics

I-Corps：使用化学计量学测定糖浆掺假物以及蜂蜜的地理和花卉起源

• 批准号: 2327747
• 负责人: Gerard Dumancas
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Scranton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327747&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Determination; syrup; adulterants; geographical

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is in the area of honey adulteration detection. Honey adulteration which is the process of deliberately adding adulterants such as corn, cane, beet, and rice syrups in honey can have significant economic and organoleptic consequences. The proposed technology will allow honey importers, packers, and retailers, as well as food authentication agencies to quickly track the authenticity of their honey products at each step of the supply chain by quantifying the abovementioned adulterant syrups in a facile and convenient manner. This will significantly improve the product’s authenticity and traceability. Further, in situ testing for the presence of honey adulterants as well as floral and geographic fingerprinting will allow various honey market segments to demand the appropriate price for their pure honey products in the global market. With food fraud continuing to escalate globally, the food authenticity market is expected to grow to $8.3 billion (USD) by 2023. Adulterated honey constitutes 7% of food fraud cases, amounting to $581 million (USD) by 2023 in total market size disruption.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a portable mid-infrared spectrometric device and a smartphone application system that can simultaneously quantify the presence of various syrups (i.e., corn, cane, beet, and rice) as well as sugar content (i.e., glucose, fructose, and sucrose) in honey in less than 2 minutes. Current methods for detecting these adulterants in honey are considered expensive, time consuming, archaic, and cumbersome. Most of these tests are being conducted via third-party laboratories using expensive and complex analytical equipment. The smartphone application system will contain the research group’s proprietary developed multivariate calibration system that can simultaneously quantify the presence of the aforementioned adulterants in honey in a facile, convenient, and affordable manner using the mid-infrared spectrometric device. Further, the multivariate calibration algorithmic system will also feature aspects related to determining the floral and geographical origin of honey.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于蜂蜜掺假检测领域。蜂蜜掺假是故意添加蜂蜜中玉米，甘蔗，甜菜和米饭糖类等通奸者的过程，可能会带来重大的经济和有机后果。提出的技术将允许蜂蜜进口商，包装工和零售商以及食品身份验证机构在供应链的每个步骤中快速跟踪其蜂蜜产品的真实性，以方便且方便的方式量化上述掺假剂。这将大大提高产品的真实性和可追溯性。此外，对蜂蜜通奸的存在以及花卉和地理指纹的现场测试将使各种蜂蜜市场细分市场在全球市场上要求其纯蜂蜜产品的适当价格。 With food fraud continuing to escalate globally, the food authenticity market is expected to grow to $8.3 billion (USD) by 2023. Adulterated honey constitutes 7% of food fraud cases, amounting to $581 million (USD) by 2023 in total market size disruption.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a portable mid-infrared spectrometric device and a smartphone application system that can easily quantify the presence of在不到2分钟的时间内，蜂蜜中的各种Sylup（即玉米，甘蔗，甜菜和大米）以及糖含量（即葡萄糖，果糖和蔗糖）。当前检测蜂蜜中这些通奸者的方法被认为是昂贵，耗时，档案和麻烦的方法。这些测试中的大多数是使用昂贵且复杂的分析设备通过第三方实验室进行的。智能手机应用程序系统将包含研究小组的专有开发的多元校准系统，该系统可以简单地量化列入冠军的通奸者的存在。使用中红外光谱设备以一种方便，方便且负担得起的方式以蜂蜜进行蜂蜜。此外，多元校准算法系统还将特征与确定蜂蜜的花​​卉和地理起源有关的方面。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子的优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。