On the Traceability of the Hazelnut Production Chain by Means of Trace Elements

Elisa Calà; Andrea Fracchia; Elisa Robotti; Federica Gulino; Francesca Gullo; Matteo Oddone; Marco Massacane; Gianluigi Cordone; Maurizio Aceto

doi:10.3390/molecules27123854

On the Traceability of the Hazelnut Production Chain by Means of Trace Elements

Elisa Calà, Andrea Fracchia, Elisa Robotti, Federica Gulino, Francesca Gullo, Matteo Oddone, Marco Massacane, Gianluigi Cordone, Maurizio Aceto

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The production chain of hazelnuts has been studied by analyzing three sets of samples produced in purity from three different pools of hazelnuts of cultivar “Tonda Gentile Trilobata”, “Tonda Gentile Romana” and “Mortarella”, all cultivated in Italy. From each pool, five processed products were obtained: roasted hazelnuts, hazelnut paste, hazelnut cream, Gianduja paste and Gi-anduiotto paste. After pre-treatment by means of dry ashing, all samples from each cultivar, includ-ing raw hazelnuts, were then analyzed by means of Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). A good discrimination was obtained among the different chain stages according to the distribution of the trace elements, as expected. More interesting was the discrimination among the different cultivars: it was possible to distinguish the samples produced from the respective cultivar by means of specific chemical markers, particularly Mo and Ni.

Original language	English
Article number	3854
Journal	Molecules
Volume	27
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123854
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

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ICP-MS
PCA
hazelnuts
production chain
traceability

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