Title: | "Chemometric characterization of alembic and industrial sugar cane spirits from cape verde and ceara, Brazil" |
Author(s): | Pereira RF; Vidal CB; de Lima AC; Melo DQ; Dantas AN; Lopes GS; do Nascimento RF; Gomes CL; da Silva MN; |
Address: | "Departamento de Quimica Analitica e Fisico-Quimica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici, Fortaleza, Ce, Brazil" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1687-8779 (Electronic) 1687-8760 (Print) 1687-8760 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Sugar cane spirits are some of the most popular alcoholic beverages consumed in Cape Verde. The sugar cane spirit industry in Cape Verde is based mainly on archaic practices that operate without supervision and without efficient control of the production process. The objective of this work was to evaluate samples of industrial and alembic sugar cane spirits from Cape Verde and Ceara, Brazil using principal component analysis. Thirty-two samples of spirits were analyzed, twenty from regions of the islands of Cape Verde and twelve from Ceara, Brazil. Of the samples obtained from Ceara, Brazil seven are alembic and five are industrial spirits. The components analyzed in these studies included the following: volatile organic compounds (n-propanol, isobutanol, isoamylic, higher alcohols, alcoholic grade, acetaldehyde, acetic acid, acetate); copper; and sulfates" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEPereira, Regina F R Vidal, Carla B de Lima, Ari C A Melo, Diego Q Dantas, Allan N S Lopes, Gisele S do Nascimento, Ronaldo F Gomes, Clerton L da Silva, Maria Nataniela eng Egypt 2012/12/12 Int J Anal Chem. 2012; 2012:840528. doi: 10.1155/2012/840528. Epub 2012 Nov 25" |