Spectroscopy · Food science

Chemical fingerprinting for edible-oil quality

Interpretable Raman and FTIR pipelines for authentication and analysis inside complex food matrices.

  • Raman
  • FTIR
  • PCA
  • Machine learning
  • Signal processing

Case study

01 · The question

Challenge

Food matrices mix overlapping chemical signals, making quality monitoring and oil identification difficult with raw spectra alone.

02 · The work

Approach

I contributed Python pipelines combining spectral preprocessing, PCA, ratiometric analysis, feature engineering, NNLS decomposition, and classical machine-learning models.

03 · The value

Impact

The project demonstrates how accessible spectroscopy and interpretable AI can support practical food-quality monitoring.

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