Sugar and artificial sweeteners are additives in packaged food and beverage products that are widely used, where excessive sugar consumption can cause an increase in various diseases. Detection and classification of natural sugars sucrose, fructose, glucose, and artificial sweetener aspartame are needed to determine the effects of consuming these sweeteners. This study uses an amperometric biosensor integrated biochip-D, which uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a bioreceptor through cellular metabolic respiration activity expressed in dissolved oxygen (DO) levels. The variations of sweetener concentration used were in the range of 50 mM to 250 mM. The measurement results showed that the higher the concentration of sugar and artificial sweeteners, the lower DO levels would be measured. It was due to the yeast cell respiration in consuming oxygen (O2) and producing carbon dioxide (CO2), where the decrease in DO levels of sucrose was 14.24%, fructose was 18.02%, glucose was 16.59%, and aspartame was 20.45% at a concentration of 250 mM. The measurement data was clustered and classified using principal component analysis (PCA), which resulted in data variance percentages of 92.80% and 89.40% for the two main components. In the application studies of the biosensor, sensitive determination of sugar in the beverage samples was investigated.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13197-022-05625-8.
Keywords: Amperometric biosensor; Dissolved oxygen; Principal component analysis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sugar.
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