Characterization and discrimination of selected chicken eggs in China's retail market based on multi-element and lipidomics analysis

The present study focuses on the differentiation of Deqingyuan (n = 90), Taihe (n = 90) and crossbred (n = 90) black-boned silky fowl eggs based on chemometrics analysis of multi-element and lipidomics data. A total of 53 chemical elements were simultaneously quantified in the eggs using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Multivariate statistical analysis of element data screened 30, 13 and 12 candidate discriminants for whole egg,...