cheese - multi-detection
Improving dairy quality with hyperspectral imaging to assess freshness, maturity, and chemical composition.
Industry
Dairy Production
Solution
Beyond Quality
Cheddar aging analysis: From top to bottom, 1-year-old, 2-year-old, 3-year-old, and 5-year-old.
Goal
To determine cheese freshness, evaluate maturity and aging, and measure chemical composition for improved product quality and compliance with industry standards while fighting against food loss and waste.
Methodologies Used
Hyperspectral imaging, Analytical chemistry, Chemometric tools
Process
Beyond's assessment of quality assurance challenges is followed by identifying more accurate and eco-responsible detection methods. Hyperspectral imaging allows to capture data related to biofilm formation, compactness, homogeneity, brittleness detection. Models applied to process the image data, provide actionable insights into freshness, maturity, and the chemical composition of cheese (fat, protein, and humidity levels).
RGB view of cheese.
Compliance test using hyperspectral images after data analysis. From left to right: compliant, non-compliant.
Conclusion
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