| Abstrak/Abstract |
The rising demand for
cocoa powder has resulted in an upsurge in market prices, leading to the emergence of adulteration practices aimed at achieving economic benefits. This study aimed to detect and quantify cocoa powder adulteration using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). The adulterants used in this study were powdered carob, cocoa shell, foxtail millet, soybean, and whole wheat. The NIRS data could not be resolved using Savitzky-Golay smoothing. Nevertheless, the application of a random forest and support vector machine successfully classified the samples with 100?curacy. Quantification of adulteration using partial least squares (PLS), Lasso, Ridge, elastic Net, and RF regressions provided R2 higher than 0.96, and root mean square error less than 2.6. Coupling PLS with the Boruta algorithm produced the best reliable regression model (R2 = 1, RMSE = 0.0000). Finally, an online application was prepared to facilitate the determination of adulterants in the cocoa powder. |
