M. Tsimidou et Kx. Karakostas, GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GREEK VIRGIN OLIVE OIL BY NONPARAMETRIC MULTIVARIATE EVALUATION OF FATTY-ACID COMPOSITION, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 62(3), 1993, pp. 253-257
Fatty acid compositional data for Greek virgin olive oils from 24 year
s of harvest and various regions and cultivars were evaluated using ch
emometric methods. Non-parametric discriminant analysis after proper t
ransformation of the data seems to be a suitable approach to character
ise the oils according to the geographical origin and may produce a sc
ientific basis for the assignment of an 'appellation d'origine' trade
mark.