Discrimination of the Geographical Origin of Soybeans Using NMR-Based Metabolomics

With the increase in soybean trade between countries, the intentional mislabeling of the origin of soybeans has become a serious problem worldwide. In this study, metabolic profiling of soybeans from the Republic of Korea and China was performed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy coupl...

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Published in:Foods 2021-02, Vol.10 (2), p.435
Main Authors: Zhou, Yaoyao, Kim, Seok-Young, Lee, Jae-Soung, Shin, Byeung-Kon, Seo, Jeong-Ah, Kim, Young-Suk, Lee, Do-Yup, Choi, Hyung-Kyoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
geographical location
Glycine max
metabolic profiling
NMR
prediction
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Summary:With the increase in soybean trade between countries, the intentional mislabeling of the origin of soybeans has become a serious problem worldwide. In this study, metabolic profiling of soybeans from the Republic of Korea and China was performed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy coupled with multivariate statistical analysis to predict the geographical origin of soybeans. The optimal orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) model was obtained using total area normalization and unit variance (UV) scaling, without applying the variable influences on projection (VIP) cut-off value, resulting in 96.9% sensitivity, 94.4% specificity, and 95.6% accuracy in the leave-one-out cross validation (LOO-CV) test for discriminating between Korean and Chinese soybeans. Soybeans from the northeastern, middle, and southern regions of China were successfully differentiated by standardized area normalization and UV scaling with a VIP cut-off value of 1.0, resulting in 100% sensitivity, 91.7%-100% specificity, and 94.4%-100% accuracy in a LOO-CV test. The methods employed in this study can be used to obtain essential information for the authentication of soybean samples from diverse geographical locations in future studies.
ISSN:2304-8158
2304-8158
DOI:10.3390/foods10020435