• What is palm oil?
  • Palm oil is a reddish-to-yellowish, and highly nutritious dietary oil produced from the pulp of the fruits of the oil palm tree. Originally, palm oil was produced in low lying and wet tropical West African regional countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, and C?te d¡¯Ivoire (Ofusu-Budu and Sarprong 2013).
  • How to assess halal food authentication?
  • Assessment of halal food authentication is principally based on regression and pattern recognition methods (Rohman & Windarsih, 2020). Furthermore, the analysis of halal food products can be conducted using multivariate methods of analysis that have allowed various quantitative and qualitative analyses.
  • Can handheld devices detect edible palm oil adulteration?
  • Coupling these results with principal component analysis, excess refractive index, and integration of transmittance introduces a novel detection tool for the authentication of edible palm oil. This opens a new opportunity for accurate handheld devices to detect adulteration and provide control in the field.
  • How to distinguish adulterated palm oil from unadulterated?
  • The analysis is performed by the combination of the excess refractive index (nE), difference of transmission (¦¤ T), and principal component analysis (PCA). With our method, it is possible to distinguish adulterated palm oils from unadulterated ones.
  • How are biosensors used in halal authentication?
  • Biosensors advanced techniques for different types of foods were used in halal authentication Biosensor techniques Type of food analyzed Method validation involved Reference AuNPs-DNA Pork and beef burger meats 1. A porcine-specific marker, a 27-nt A1UI-cut fragment of the swine cytb gene, was used for the swine-specific oligoprobe 2.
  • Can halal food be authenticated?
  • In addition, the use of real-time PCR is another breakthrough in the authentication of halal food. A study conducted by Kang et al. (2018) demonstrated that real-time PCR successfully revealed precise and sensitive detection of porcine gelatin in pure samples and complex mixtures of adulterated ramen stock powder (Kang, Lee, & Kim, 2018).