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Differentiation of black, green, herbal and fruit bagged teas based on multi-element analysis using inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry

  • Jovana N. Veljković , Aleksandra N. Pavlović EMAIL logo , Jelena M. Brcanović , Snežana S. Mitić , Snežana B. Tošić , Emilija T. Pecev-Marinković and Milan N. Mitić
Published/Copyright: February 2, 2016
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Abstract

In the present paper, multi-element characterisation of 26 bagged teas was carried out using inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. Na, K, Ca and Mg were the metals with major contents. Among the essential elements, Fe and Zn were the most abundant, followed by Se, Cu, Mo and Cr. The tea bag samples also contained significant contents of Mn and Al. The chemometric techniques of linear correlation analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) were used for differentiation of the tea bag samples according to their metal content. The samples analysed were classified into four groups by PCA and CA. The first group includes hibiscus, nettle, mint, rtanj tea, thyme, bearberry and sage. Green and black teas are in the second group. The third group contains strawberry, lime, pineapple, pomegranate, elder, blueberry, milfoil, apricot and chamomile. Exotic fruits, sweet cherry, forest fruits, apple, St John’s wort, rose hips, cherry and raspberry are in the fourth group.

Acknowledgements.

This research was supported by grant no. 172047 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. The authors wish to express their gratitude for the financial support provided by the Ministry.


Supplementary data

Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version of this paper (DOI: 10.1515/chempap-2015-0215).


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Received: 2015-4-22
Revised: 2015-8-24
Accepted: 2015-9-14
Published Online: 2016-2-2
Published in Print: 2016-4-1

© 2015 Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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