Amidst growing concerns to food safety, adulteration has emerged as a severe threat, to which NMR spectroscopy is a best-suited tool due to its high sensitivity, inherently quantitative nature, untargeted chemical profiling ability, and versatility in testing different food products of different types and matrices.

NMR-based methods have been accepted as an industry standard for chemical profiling of food products, determining chemical structures of biomolecules and their quantification, authenticity testing and product validation, detection of adulterants, among others.

Moreover, NMR-based chemometric methods can deliver these testing aspects simultaneously, thereby ensuring consumer safety and maintaining the integrity of the food industry and addressing the need for a versatile and robust analytical tool.

A brief abstract of how NMR-based methods can be used in authenticating food products and probe the above-mentioned qualities will be presented.