What is it about?
The need exists for a real time, field deployable sensor technology that will enable farmers (sellers) and producers (buyers) to ensure production of high-quality insect powders. Specifically, we propose to leverage an optical sensor system originally designed for agricultural applications (e.g., soybeans, oats, tomatoes) to perform real-time, low-cost analyses to discriminate insect specie in powders.
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Why is it important?
Insect farmers would benefit greatly from a low-cost, portable sensor technology that provides accurate, real-time, in situ information of the insect specie.
Perspectives
Showing readers that infrared technology combined with chemiometrics is a rapid technique for quality control of this new ingredient and will help food authentification.
Silvia de Lamo Castellvi
The Ohio State University
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This page is a summary of: Rapid discrimination and classification of edible insect powders using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, April 2020, Wageningen Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3920/jiff2019.0032.
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