Supplementary material for: Krstić, Đ. D., Ristivojević, P. M., Gašić, U. M., Lazović, M., Fotirić Akšić, M. M., Milivojević, J., Morlock, G. E., Milojković-Opsenica, D. M.,& Trifković, J. Đ.. (2023). Authenticity assessment of cultivated berries via phenolic profiles of seeds. in Food Chemistry Elsevier., 402, 134184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.134184

Abstract

Considering the health-benefits of berry fruits consumption and increased market demands for food authenticityas one of the most important quality assurances, phenolic profiling by high-performance thin layer chroma-tography and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography hyphenated with mass spectrometry was combinedwith multivariate analysis for phytochemical characterization and intercultivar discrimination of cultivatedberry seeds. The phenolic profiles of 45 berry seeds from nine genuine Serbian cultivated fruit species (straw-berry, raspberry, blackberry, black currant, blueberry, gooseberry, cape gooseberry, chokeberry, and goji berry)revealed a good differentiation according to botanical origin. In order to determine biomarkers responsible forthe classification, a total of 103 phenolic compounds were identified, including 53 phenolic acids and theirderivatives, 26 flavonoids and 24 glycosides. Biomarkers derived from the phenolic profile of berry seeds provedto be a powerful tool in the authentication of botanical origin, and may be useful in detection of frauds in berry-based seed-containing product.