Geographical Discrimination of Ground Amazon Cocoa by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Influence of Sample Preparation

Table 1

Spectra collected by region and category: raw cocoa (RC), dried unfermented cocoa (DU), dried fermented cocoa (DF), and dried fermented degreased (DFD).

	RC	DF	DU	DFD
Tomé-Açú	40	20	40	19
Tucumã	40	21	40	19
Medicilãndia	37	31	37	18
Total	117	72	117	56