Descrição
An electronic tongue with 36 cross-sensibility polymeric membranes was built and applied for qualitative beverage analysis. An electronic tongue with 36 cross-sensibility polymeric membranes was built and applied for qualitative
beverage analysis. The objective was to distinguish non-a1coholic beverages with different leveis of added
fruit juice. The different signal profiles recorded by the electronic tongue devi ce, together with a supervised
, multivariate statistical method for pattem recognition, were used to differenliate 4 beverage groups with
different added fruit juice contents: higher than 30%, between 14% and 30%, between 5% and 10% and
between 0.1% and 2%. A set of 16 portuguese beverages (4 for each group), purchased in commercia[
superrnarkets, were analyzed. A stepwise linear discriminant analysis was used allowing a very satisfactory
overall correct classification of 100% for the original grouped cases and of 93 .8% for the "[eaving one-out"
cross-validation procedure