Adulteration detection of multi-species vegetable oils in camellia oil using Raman spectroscopy: Comparison of chemometrics and deep learning methods

Oil adulteration is a global challenge in the production of high value-added natural oils. Raman spectroscopy combined with mathematical modeling can be used for adulteration detection of camellia oil (CAO). In this study, the advantages of traditional chemometrics and deep learning methods in identifying and quantifying adulterated CAO were compared from a statistical perspective, and no significant difference were founded in the identification of CAO at different levels of adulteration. The recognition rate of pure and adulterated CAO was 100 %, but there were misclassifications among different adulterated CAOs. The deep learning models outperformed chemometrics methods in quantitative prediction of adulteration level, with R2P, RMSEP, and RPD of the optimal ConvLSTM model achieved 0.999, 0.9 % and 31.5, respectively. The classifiers and models developed in this study based on deep learning have wide applicability and reliability, and provide a fast and accurate method for adulteration detection in CAO.