Determination of Outer Skin in Dry Onions by Hyperspectral Imaging Spectroscopy and Chemometrics. Issue 2 (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vincke, Damien; Baeten, Vincent; Sinnaeve, Georges; Dardenne, Pierre; Pierna, Juan Antonio Fernández
• Is Part Of: NIR news. Volume 25:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 9
• Page End: 12
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: Near infrared spectroscopy -- Periodicals; 543.5
• DOI: 10.1255/nirn.1425
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0960-3360

Abstract

The scope of this work is to propose a method based on near infrared hyperspectral imaging to automatically sort different parts of onions (dry peel, outer skin and onion bulbs) produced during specific industrial processes. For this purpose, two procedures have been developed; one is based on computation of the spectral area related to the organic sulphur band and the second one based on the discriminant chemometric tool PLS-DA. Both procedures have been compared by repeated measurements on artificial mixtures of dry peel and onions. This comparison indicated that PLS-DA produced the most accurate values while the study of spectral area seems to have the best repeatability. The PLS-DA procedure was then applied to several samples of mixed dried onions to compare the results with reference values obtained by manual counting. Based on the measurement repeatability, the stability of the results and the small differences between the reference and predicted values, this study has demonstrated the ability of near infrared hyperspectral imaging to identify and quantify the different parts of dry onions in mixtures.