Mass spectrometric non-target screening (NTS) is a powerful analytical strategy applied, among others, in environmental analysis, metabolomics, and foodomics. It is well suitable for the analysis of complex sample sets and can be used to compare, evaluate, and assess these. For the analysis of coffee, NTS provides new insights into the chemical composition of coffee samples, the formation, and degradation of compounds during fermentation processes, and eventually helps to find marker compounds, specific for certain processes and qualities.

Proceedings: Bieber, S.; Letzel, T.; Weller, P. Non-Target Screening Approaches in Coffee Research–Opportunities and Challenges. Proceedings 2024, 109, 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/ICC2024-18154