52 Greek Koroneiki virgin olive oil (VOO) from 1994 to 1997 for model development and 13 Koroneiki VOO from 1999-2000 for model validation
Stored at −22°C till analysis
FFA, PV, UV, total phenols, alpha-tocopherol, total chlorophylls, FAP and the ratio of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids (U/S), induction time (120°C, 20 L/h)
(i) Effect of the production year: linear regression, -test and variable selection (ii) Possible collinearity among independent variables: variance inflation factor (VIF), PCA and singular value decomposition (SVD) (iii) Selection of analytical parameter affecting OSI the most: regressions, forward and backward selection, stepwise selection, Mallow’s index and Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) (iv) Statistical packages: SAS version 8 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC), SPSS version 10 (IBM Corporation, Chicago, IL), and JMP IN version 3.1.7 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC)
(i) PET/PVC/glass bottle (ii) Covered with aluminum foil inside fiberboard boxes/under fluorescent light at 15/30/40°C with relative humidity of 60% (iii) 12 months; sampled monthly
Hexanal
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(i) Determination of differences between treatments for the hexanal evolution rate: SAS 8.2 (ii) Separation of the means of GC areas: Tukey test and Duncan test (iii) Model development: nonuniform finite-difference scheme with an upwinding numerical algorithm (Newton method for nonlinear systems)
Probability for the olive oil to reach the end of its shelf life during a certain period of time ():
(i) Differences between treatments: Duncan test on SPSS version 14 (ii) Linear and nonlinear regression: GraphPad Prism 4.02 (GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA) (iii) Oxidation and antioxidant degradation rates: calculated from the slopes of respective concentration versus time curve (iv) Effect of temperature on rates of oxidation: Arrhenius equation
Time (in weeks) to reach of 2.5 at a mild temperature (T ≤ 60°C):
(i) Amber glass (ii) In the dark at room temperature/15°C (iii) 12 months; sampled monthly
Chlorophyll pigments (pheophytin a and pyropheophytin a)
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(i) Differences between means: one-way ANOVA (ii) Post hoc comparison: Brown and Forsythe test [37] (iii) PCA, PLS, and nonlinear regression: Statistica 6.0 and Statgraphics Centurion XV for Windows (StatSoft Inc., Round Rock, TX)
The percentage of pyropheophytin a (% PPP) over time ():
FFA, PV, total tocopherols and total phenols, total polar compounds, conjugated diene value, ratio of mono- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids (M/P ratio), and induction time (100/110/120/130°C, 25 L/h)
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ANOVA and regression analyses: MStatC (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI) and SlideWrite (Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, MO)
Calculate shelf life at 50°C (SL50) as a function of induction time (OSI):
(i) Amber glass (ii) In the dark/exposed to natural and artificial light at room temperature (17–25°C) (iii) 12 months; sampled after 0/3/6/9/12 months
FFA, PV, UV, induction time; electronic tongue signal profile
(i) 4 trained panelists (ii) Olfactory sensations, gustatory-retronasal sensations, and final olfactory-gustatory sensations