Assessment of the authenticity of fruit spirits by gas chromatography and stable isotope ratio analyses

Czech Journal of Food Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 368-375

  Winterová, Renata ^a   Mikulíková, Renata ^b   Mazáč, Jiři ^c   Havelec, Pavel ^c  

^a FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Research Institute of Brewing and Malting   (Czech Republic)

^c Customs Technical Laboratory   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Fruit spirits; Gas chromatography; IRMS; Linear discriminant analysis; SNIF NMR; Stable isotope ratio analysis

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PRUNUS ARMENIACA; PRUNUS AVIUM; PRUNUS CERASUS; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; PYRUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 55949101302     PISSN: 12121800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/1610-cjfs     Document Type: Article

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