Sensory Evaluation of Virgin Olive Oils by Artificial Neural Network Processing of Dynamic Head-Space Gas Chromatographic Data
✍ Scribed by Angerosa, Franca; Giacinto, Luciana Di; Vito, Raffaella; Cumitini, Sergio
- Book ID
- 102648785
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 557 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5142
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✦ Synopsis
A different approach to the traditional sensory method was used for the sensory quality evaluation of virgin olive oils. Two hundred and four oil samples differing in their quality, and extracted from olives of various varieties, ripeness, sanitary state and geographical origin, were submitted to sensory evaluation by a panel test and dynamic head-space analysis for the quantification of volatile fractions. An artificial neural network (ANN), using the backpropagation algorithm, was applied to the head-space results (input) with the aim of predicting panel test scores (output). It was found that the ANN was able to generalise well and to assign the sensory evaluations with a good degree of accuracy. The high proportion of correct answers (96%) suggested that sensory evaluation from the panel test could be successfully replaced by the dynamic head-space analysis-ANN coupled approach.