Yung-Kun Chuang

Taipei Medical University | TMU · School of Food Safety

The adulteration of cold‐pressed avocado oil (AVO), a high‐value commodity, poses significant economic and health concerns. This study aimed to develop a method for identifying adulteration of cold‐pressed AVO with refined oil and its utilization to evaluate commercial AVO (cAVO) samples. Avocados from the United States and New Zealand at different...

Consumption of agricultural products with pesticide residue is risky and can negatively affect health. This study proposed a nondestructive method of detecting pesticide residues in chili pepper based on the combination of visible and near-infrared (VIS/NIR) spectroscopy (400-2498 nm) and deep learning modeling. The obtained spectra of chili pepper...

Exosomes are small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) secreted from cells and have a general diameter ranging from 30-150 nm. It was reported that exosomes have essential roles in intercellular communication and can be targeted as biomarkers of disease or as therapeutic agents. Among the different techniques used for exosome investigation, the mass spec...

Direct quantification analysis of near-infrared (NIR) spectra is challenging because the number of spectral variables is usually considerably higher than the number of samples. To mitigate the so-called curse of dimensionality, variable selection is often performed before multivariate calibration. There has been much work in this regard, where the...

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) N-glycosylation was discovered to have an association with inflammation status, which has the potential to be a novel biomarker for kidney diseases. In this study, we applied an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method to plasma and urine samples from 57 individuals with diffe...

Concentrations of total catechins and theanine are important indices for monitoring the degree of fermentation, a key factor in determining the types, qualities, and taste characteristics of tea, during manufacturing process. Until now, there has not been any near-infrared (NIR) study applying theanine as an index for monitoring the degree of ferme...

The commonly used spectral variable selection methods in near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy were more theoretical and difficult to put into practice, due to a large number of optical filters with extremely narrow bandwidth at the desired wavelength was required for the spectral acquisition. In this study, a method of optimally selecting a set of the...

Determination of the histamine level in fish is essential not only because it is an indicator of fish freshness but also because this prevents the risk of histamine intoxication in consumers. This study used the strategy of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy coupled with a hybrid variable selection for rapid and nondestructive assessment of the hista...

In this study, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was exploited for non-destructive determination of theanine content of oolong tea. The NIR spectral data (400-2500 nm) were correlated with the theanine level of 161 tea samples using partial least squares regression (PLSR) with different wavelengths selection methods, including the regression coeffic...

Partially fermented tea such as oolong tea is a popular drink worldwide. Preventing fraud in partially fermented tea has become imperative to protect producers and consumers from possible economic losses. Visible/near-infrared (VIS/NIR) spectroscopy integrated with stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) and support vector machine (SVM) methods...

Carbohydrate concentrations are important indicators of the internal quality of Phalaenopsis. Inthisstudy, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was used for quantitative analyses of fructose, glucose, sucrose, and starch in Phalaenopsis plants. Both modified partial least-squares regression (MPLSR) and stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) methods...

We present the first report on complete cluster distributions of cytochrome c (molecular weight of 12.4 kDa) and bovine serum albumin ((BSA), molecular weight of 66.4 kDa) with mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) reaching 350,000 and 1,400,000, respectively, by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI). Large cluster distributions of the analytes...

Independent component (IC) analysis was applied to near-infrared spectroscopy for analysis of gentiopicroside and swertiamarin; the two bioactive components of Gentiana scabra Bunge. ICs that are highly correlated with the two bioactive components were selected for the analysis of tissue cultures, shoots and roots, which were found to distribute in...

Food safety becomes a major public concern in addition to the food quality. Among major bacterial diseases related to public health, Escherichia coli is most common and may cause illness or death once infected through polluted fresh-to-eat fruits and vegetables. Comprehensive inspection of E. Coli contamination on whole surface area of all fruits a...

Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was employed to perform a quantitative analysis of gentiopicroside, the bioactive component of the medicinal plant Gentiana scabra Bunge. Modified partial least squares regression (MPLSR) and stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) calibration models were built using 94 plant tissue culture samples and 136 grown...

This paper reports the development of a multispectral algorithm, using the line-scan hyperspectral imaging system, to detect fecal contamination on leafy greens. Fresh bovine feces were applied to the surfaces of washed loose baby spinach leaves. A hyperspectral line-scan imaging system was used to acquire hyperspectral fluorescence images of the c...

Carbohydrate contents have been demonstrated as indicators for flowering quality of Phalaenopsis plants. In this study, near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy was employed for quantitative analysis of carbohydrate contents like fructose, glucose, sucrose, and starch in Phalaenopsis. The modified partial least squares regression (MPLSR) method...

Fecal contamination of produce is a food safety issue associated with pathogens such as Escherichia coli that can easily pollute agricultural products via animal and human fecal matters. Outbreaks of foodborne illnesses associated with consuming raw fruits and vegetables have occurred more frequently in recent years in the United States. Among frui...

Independent component analysis (ICA) was integrated with near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for rapid quantification of sugar content in wax jambu (Syzygium samarangense Merrill & Perry). The JADE algorithm (Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Eigenmatrices) and linear regression with spectral pretreatments were incorporated to analyze the NIR spect...

In the United States, fecal contamination of produce is a food safety issue associated with pathogens such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella that can easily pollute agricultural products via animal and human fecal matters. Outbreaks of foodborne illnesses associated with consuming raw fruits and vegetables in the US have occurred more frequently i...

A dynamic fluorescence image index system capable of non-destructive assessment of water stress in cabbage seedlings was developed. The quenching curves of chlorophyll fluorescence characteristic to the plant's water stress status under reduced excitation energy were acquired via a multispectral imaging system. The dynamic fluorescence index (DFI),...

Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverage in the world, only second to water. Different from black tea (fully fermented) and green tea (unfermented), partially fermented teas such as Oolong, Bouchong are popular in Taiwan, Japan, China and Asian countries. The quality assurance during the process of partially fermented tea is highly related t...