Research Article

Classification of Coffee Beans by GC-C-IRMS, GC-MS, and 1H-NMR

Table 1

Scientific articles on determination of origin of coffee.

Analytical technicalPresentation of coffeeNumber of samplesCountriesChemometric toolMetabolitesReference

ICP-AESRoasted 160Costa Rica (20), Colombia (20), Kenya, Guatemala, Panama, Sulawesi, Ethiopia, SumatraPCA, CDA, DFA, ANNMultielements (19)[18]
EA-P-IRMSGreen45Ethiopia, Malawi, Yemen, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil (5), Colombia (3), Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, India, Sumatra, Jamaica, HawaiiLDA, CARTStable isotope ratios of C, H, O[19]
IRMSGreen46Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, India, Timor, Papua NG, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe PCAStable isotope ratios of C, N, B[1]
NIRSGreen120ā€‰PCAMoisture, fat, protein, sucrose, caffeine, trigonelline, organic acids, chlorogenic acids[20]
GC-TOF-MSRoasted 47Production area: Brazil (11) and Colombia (8). Markets of coffee: Brazil (2), Colombia (12), Costa Rica, GuatemalaPCAVolatile and semivolatile compounds[14]
IRMS/EAGreen684 R (Angola), 62 A (Papua NG, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Malawi, Guatemala, Brazil (8), East Timor, Peru (2), Ecuador, Mexico, Salvador, Nicaragua, Zambia, Rwanda, Indonesia)PCAStable isotope ratios of C, N, O and percentage composition of C and N[3]
HPLCGreen10757 A (Guatemala, Cameroon, Congo, Uganda, India, Indonesia, Java, Vietnam), 50 A (Brazil (6), Colombia (1), Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Java, Papua NG, Timor, Vietnam)PCA, LDA, PLS-DA, CARTChlorogenic acids, amides cinnamoyl, cinnamoyl glycoside, phenolic acids[21]
LC-MS/
GC-FID
Roasted 21Asia (4), South America (11), Africa (6)PCATotal protein, total carbohydrates, monosaccharides, amines[15]
IRMS/MC-ICP-SFMSGreen475 different Hawaii coffee-producing regionsCDAStable isotope ratios of C, N, S, O, Sr and multielements (30)[22]
MC-ICP-MS/ IRMSGreen60Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Salvador, Nicaragua, Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua NGPCA Stable isotope ratios of Sr and O[23]
ICP-MS/ IRMSGreen64Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Salvador, Dom. Rep., Colombia (4), Brazil (6), Uruguay, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia CDA Stable isotope ratios of H, C, N, O and multielements (54)[2]
1H-NMRRoasted40Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Saint Helena, Tanzania, Brazil (5), Colombia (2), Costa Rica, Salvador, Galapagos, Hawaii, Peru (2), Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, India, Sumatra, Nepal, YemenOPLS-DAChlorogenic acids, trigonelline, lactate, caffeine, fatty acids[12]
13C-NMRGreen60Brazil (10), Colombia (10), Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, VietnamPCA, OPLS-DASucrose, caffeine, chlorogenic acids, choline, amino acids, organic acids, trigonelline[13]
ICP-MS/ICP-AESGreen and roasted42Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Indonesia, India, East Timor, Australia, Papua NG, Cuba, Dom. Rep., Costa Rica, Peru (1), Guatemala, Colombia (3), Brazil (2)LDA, PCAMultielements (59)[24]
FT-IRGreen184 different Brazil coffee-producing regionsANN, SIMCA, MLPā€‰[25]
MC-ICP-MSGreen21Taiwan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, East Timor, Indonesia, Papua NGPCA Stable isotope ratios of B and Sr and multielements (7) [26]
1H-NMRGreen and roasted340Brazil (19), Colombia (70), Ecuador, Peru (16), Hawaii, Costa Rica, Dom. Rep., Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uganda, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, China, India, Indonesia, VietnamPCA, PLS-DAFatty acids, caffeine, acetate, organic acids, trigonelline, chlorogenic acids[17]
HR-CS-AASRoasted9Brazil, Ethiopia, Colombia, India, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Kenya, Papua NG, Timor, Mussulo, ChinaANOVA, CDACa, Mg, Na, K, Fe, Mn[27]
PTR-TOF-MSRoasted6Brazil, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, IndiaPCA, RF, PDA, dPLS, SVM, ANOVAH3O+, NO+, [28]
NIRSGreen904 different Brazil coffee-producing regionsPLS-DASucrose, lipids, amino acids, caffeine, trigonelline, chlorogenic acids[29]
UPLC-MSGreen1004 different Ethiopia coffee-producing regionsPCA, LDA, ANOVAChlorogenic acids[30]

ICP-AES, Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy; EA-P-IRMS, Elemental Analysis-Pyrolysis-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry; NIRS, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy; GC-TOF-MS, Gases Chromatography-Time-of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry; HPLC, High Performance Liquid Chromatography; LC-MS, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; GC-FID, Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detector; MC/ICP/SFMS, Multiple Detector/Collector-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Sector Field Mass Spectrometry; NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; FT-IR, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy; PCA, Principal Component Analysis; CDA, Canonical Discriminant Analysis; DFA, Discriminant Function Analysis; ANN, Artificial Neural Network; LDA, Linear Discriminant Analysis; CART, Classification and Regression Tree; PLS-DA, Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis; OPLS-DA, Orthogonal Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis; SIMCA, Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy; MLP, Multilayer Perceptron; RF, Random Forest; PDA, Penalized Discriminant Analysis; dPLS, Discriminant Partial Least Squares; SVM, Support Vector Machines.