What is it about?

For finding the adulteration of cassia cinnamon powder from true (Ceylon) cinnamon is possible using Spectroscopic technique with multivariate analysis.

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Why is it important?

Previously, HPLC test or DNA barcoding was used to find out the adulteration which is time consuming and require expertise. But this study proved that it can be done in very quick and nondestructive way.

Perspectives

Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. This article also lead to detect adulteration of low quality cinnamon powder from true cinnamon

Yasmin Jannat
Chungnam National University

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This page is a summary of: Rapid authentication measurement of cinnamon powder using FT-NIR and FT-IR spectroscopic techniques, Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, June 2019, Wageningen Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3920/qas2018.1318.
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