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Real-time monitoring of miniaturized thermal food processing by advanced mass spectrometric techniques.

Anal. Chem. 95, 1694-1702 (2023)
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Mass spectrometry is a popular and powerful analytical tool to study the effects of food processing. Industrial sampling, real-life sampling, or challenging academic research on process-related volatile and aerosol research often demand flexible, time-sensitive data acquisition by state-of-the-art mass analyzers. Here, we show a laboratory-scaled, miniaturized, and highly controllable setup for the online monitoring of aerosols and volatiles from thermal food processing based on dielectric barrier discharge ionization (DBDI) mass spectrometry (MS). We demonstrate the opportunities offered by the setup from a foodomics perspective to study emissions from the thermal processing of wheat bread rolls at 210 °C by Fourier transformation ion cyclotron resonance MS. As DBDI is an emerging technology, we compared its ionization selectivity to established atmospheric pressure ionization tools: we found DBDI preferably ionizes saturated, nitrogenous compounds. We likewise identified a sustainable overlap in the selectivity of detected analytes with APCI and electrospray ionization (ESI). Further, we dynamically recorded chemical fingerprints throughout the thermal process. Unsupervised classification of temporal response patterns was used to describe the dynamic nature of the reaction system. Compared to established tools for real-time MS, our setup permits one to monitor chemical changes during thermal food processing at ultrahigh resolution, establishing an advanced perspective for real-time mass spectrometric analysis of food processing.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords Natural Organic-matter; Ms
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0003-2700
e-ISSN 1520-6882
Quellenangaben Volume: 95, Issue: 2, Pages: 1694-1702 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher American Chemical Society (ACS)
Publishing Place 1155 16th St, Nw, Washington, Dc 20036 Usa
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Grants Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, BayVFP