Food Authentication: Small-Molecule Profiling as a Tool for the Geographic 
Discrimination of German White Asparagus

Creydt, M; Hudzik, D; Rurik, M; Kohlbacher, O; Fischer, M

doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.8b05791

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Food Authentication: Small-Molecule Profiling as a Tool for the Geographic Discrimination of German White Asparagus

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Kohlbacher, O
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Creydt, M., Hudzik, D., Rurik, M., Kohlbacher, O., & Fischer, M. (2018). Food Authentication: Small-Molecule Profiling as a Tool for the Geographic Discrimination of German White Asparagus. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 66(50), 13328-13339. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.8b05791.

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For the first time, a non-targeted metabolomics approach by means of ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometry was chosen for the discrimination of geographical origins of white asparagus samples ( Asparagus officinalis). Over a period of four harvesting periods (4 years), approximately 400 asparagus samples were measured. Initially, four different liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry methods were used to detect as many metabolites as possible and to assess which method is most suitable. The most relevant marker compounds were linked to the influence of different plant stress parameters and climate effects. Some of the samples were also analyzed by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), which is the current gold standard for the discrimination of the geographical origin of asparagus. In summary, the analysis of the metabolome was proven to be quite suitable to determine the geographical origin of asparagus and seems to provide better interpretable results than IRMS studies.