Abstract
This study aims to investigate the potential of using advanced spectroscopies for cheese quality monitoring. For this purpose, six semi-hard cheeses manufactured using lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and/or propionic acid bacteria (PAB) were explored using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy. The spectral data were analyzed using principal component analysis for extraction of possible discriminative patterns in quality parameters. The results show that the green analytical, but primarily bulk-sensitive, NIRS method was able to discriminate the cheese varieties primarily due to differences in the first overtone CH stretching region between 1650 and 1720 nm, in particular by the lactate methylene absorption at 1674 nm. A total of 25 metabolites were identified in the 1H NMR spectra of the cheese extracts, several of which were associated with the LAB and PAB metabolic pathways. PAB-associated metabolites include propionate, acetate, and glutamate, while LAB-associated metabolites include lactate and acetoin among others.
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