Systematic selection of competing metabolomics methods in a metabolite-sensory relationship study

• DOI: 10.1007/s11306-021-01821-3
• Publication Date: 2021-08-25T20:02:47Z
• Authors: Naser Davarzani; Carmen Diez-Simon; Justus L. Großmann; Doris M. Jacobs; Rudi van Doorn; Marco A. van den ...; Age K. Smilde; Roland Mumm; Robert D. Hall; Johan A. Westerhuis
• Keywords: Relevance

The relationship between the chemical composition of food products and their sensory profile is a complex association confronting many challenges. However, new untargeted methodologies are helping correlate metabolites with characteristics in simpler manner. Nevertheless, pilot phase project, where only small set used to explore relationships, choices have be made about most appropriate metabolomics methodology.To provide framework for selecting metabolite-sensory methodology based on: quality measurements, relevance detected terms distinguishing or whether they can related attributes products.In this paper we introduce systematic approach all these different aspects driving choice method.As an example tomato soup project two sampling methods (SPME SBSE) had made. results not always consistently pointing same method as being best. SPME was able detect better precision, SBSE seemed distinction soups.The three levels comparison information on how could perform follow up study will help researcher make final selection strengths weaknesses.