geographical classification

Authentication of PDO saffron of L'Aquila (Crocus sativus L.) by HPLC-DAD coupled with a discriminant multi-way approach

One hundred and forty-nine (149) Italian saffron samples produced in the years from 2013 to 2016 in distinct sites located in five different Italian regions, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Umbria, Campania and Sardinia, together with twenty-seven (27) commercial samples, have been analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). Among the investigated samples, those produced in Abruzzo (L'Aquila area) present an even higher added-value, because, since 2005, saffron of L'Aquila has been granted of the protected designation of origin (PDO) mark.

Geographical discrimination of red garlic (Allium sativum L.) using fast and non-invasive Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transformed Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy combined with chemometrics

Four varieties of red garlic (Allium sativum L.) cultivated in different Italian territories, Sulmona (Abruzzo), Proceno and Castelliri (Lazio), and Nubia (Sicily), were analysed by Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transformed Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. ATR-FTIR spectra of bulbils and bulbil tunics were separately acquired and processed by Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) with the aim of classifying the garlic samples on the basis of their geographical origin.