Differentiation Unclean and Cleaned Edible Bird’s Nest using Multivariate Analysis of Amino Acid Composition Data

Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) has been used as a health modulator for many centuries. Nutrient degradation in EBN always happen during cleaning process due to factors such temperature and long soaking time water. The present study attempts find the difference between unclean cleaned their amino acid composition. A total of 65 samples were collected directly from swiftlet premises 13 states Malaysia ensure coverage geographical location differences. standardized method had adapted industry clean sample lab. Then it was analysed acids After that OPLS-DA multivariate model discriminate on 18 types robust with classification predictive ability 76.1% 64.5%, respectively. further validated blind test 100% accurately fall into respective cluster, EBN. findings suggest three major highest VIP value Aspartic acid, Methionine Glutamic proposed marker discriminating