Gas chromatography ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) dataset of honey samples with different botanical origins

Abstract

Gas chromatography ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) is a robust and sensitive benchtop technique commonly used for non-target screening of volatile organic compounds. It has been applied to authenticity analysis by generating characteristic “fingerprints” of food samples, well suited for chemometric data analysis. This dataset contains headspace GC-IMS spectra from 50 monofloral honey samples from three different botanical origins, 18 acacia honeys (Robinia pseudoacacia), 19 canola honeys (Brassica napus) and 18 honeydew honeys (forest flowers). Honeys were sourced from the beekeepers directly or obtained from governmental food inspectors from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Authenticity was confirmed by pollen analysis in the framework of the official control of foodstuffs. The data was acquired using a setup based on an Agilent 6890N gas chromatograph (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA) and an OEM Standalone IMS cell from G.A.S Sensorsysteme m. b. H. (Dortmund, Germany). All samples were recorded in duplicates and spectra are presented as raw data in the .mea file format. The dataset is available on Mendeley Data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/jxj2r45t2x.

Keywords

• Non-target screening
• Volatile organic compounds
• Food fraud detection
• Chemometrics
• Multivariate data analysis