‘Fingerprinting’ Fruit Juices For Authentification

Adulterations or other possible food frauds are a financial problem that affect many foodstuffs. This is why achieving the authentification of food products is of great importance. In the case of fruit juices the most common type of adulteration is mixing the original juice with juices from other, cheaper fruits (mainly grapefruit, grape or pear); in other words falsifying the juice.Amongst the chemical methods of authentification, there are two different strategies.

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Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on January 12th, 2008