title: Use of multivariate analysis of MIR spectra to study bread staling.
abstract: Different kinds of bread, stored at constant temperature and at controlled humidity conditions for a week since their manufacturing date, were analysed by Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform InfraRed (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. The collected spectra were processed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), in order to evaluate the changes occurring during bread ageing. For the sake of comparison, the 1060-950 cm spectral window has been also investigated by curve-fitting methods. It was observed that the first PC increases monotonically with ageing of samples. Furthermore, the more influential variables on PC1 correspond to spectral regions where are located stretching and bending bands, which are mainly attributed to typical starch bonds vibrations.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, 41100, Modena (Italy).
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cocchi
authors.forename: Giorgia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Foca
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marchetti
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sighinolfi
authors.forename: Tassi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lorenzo
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ulrici
mesh_terms: D001939:Bread; D006813:Humidity; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013997:Time Factors