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Chemical and sensory discrimination of coffee: impacts of the planting altitude and fermentation

2021; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 248; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s00217-021-03912-w

1438-2385

Emanuele Catarina da Silva Oliveira, José Maria Rodrigues da Luz, Marina Gomes de Castro, Paulo R. Filgueiras, Rogério Carvalho Guarçoni, Eustáquio Vinícius Ribeiro de Castro, Marliane de Cássia Soares da Silva, Lucas Louzada Pereira,

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Edaphoclimatic conditions, planting altitudes, soil, the microbiome of plants and fruits, genotypes, and postharvest processing are variables that contribute to the chemical and sensory quality of the coffee. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of planting altitude and fermentation of fruits on the chemical and sensory quality of the coffee using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Cherry coffees were harvested in eight points of altitudes between 826 and 1078.08 m. A completely randomized design with e planting altitudes, five fermentation processes, and five repetitions was performed. Lipids, trigonelline, citrate, and malate were the compounds that most contribute to the chemical discrimination of coffee in the altitudes below 969 m. While, in the high altitudes (> 1000 m), this discrimination was due to the HMF, quinic acid, caffeine, and formic acid, and the global notes of coffee beverages were higher than 80 points. In fermented coffee, the LDA of the chemical data indicates the formation of five clusters, showing how the compounds can suffer changes depending on the form of processing used in coffee. The best score of beverage was observed in samples of 1078.08 m under dry fermentation and only in samples of 969 m was observed a significant difference in the sensory score between spontaneous fermentation and induced fermentation. Thus, coffee sensory scores were dependent on planting and fermentation methods and NMR and LDA techniques proved important in chemical and sensory discrimination of coffees.