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A Metabolomic Approach to Beer Characterization.

ABSTRACT: The consumers' interest towards beer consumption has been on the rise during the past decade: new approaches and ingredients get tested, expanding the traditional recipe for brewing beer. As a consequence, the field of "beeromics" has also been constantly growing, as well as the demand for quick and exhaustive analytical methods. In this study, we propose a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and chemometrics to characterize beer. 1H-NMR spectra were collected and then analyzed using chemometric tools. An interval-based approach was applied to extract chemical features from the spectra to build a dataset of resolved relative concentrations. One aim of this work was to compare the results obtained using the full spectrum and the resolved approach: with a reasonable amount of time needed to obtain the resolved dataset, we show that the resolved information is comparable with the full spectrum information, but interpretability is greatly improved.

SUBMITTER: Cavallini N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7962951 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Metabolomic Approach to Beer Characterization.

Cavallini Nicola N Savorani Francesco F Bro Rasmus R Cocchi Marina M

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210308 5

The consumers' interest towards beer consumption has been on the rise during the past decade: new approaches and ingredients get tested, expanding the traditional recipe for brewing beer. As a consequence, the field of "beeromics" has also been constantly growing, as well as the demand for quick and exhaustive analytical methods. In this study, we propose a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and chemometrics to characterize beer. <sup>1</sup>H-NMR spectra were collected ...[more]

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