The always more-demanding fields of food safety, quality and traceability are continuously fostering the development of robust, efficient, sensitive and cost-effective analytical methodologies. Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics is a key tool nowadays with great potential in many analytical fields and has been demonstrated to be capable of facing some important challenges related to these areas within the food science domain.The main aim of this review is to present a critical overview of the most recent applications of MS-based metabolomics approaches for food quality, safety and traceability assessment, covering the most relevant works published from 2014 to 2017. Information about the different steps needed to develop a MS-metabolomics approach, i.e. sample treatment, analytical platform, and data processing, is also provided and discussed.

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转载：基于质谱的代谢组学方法在食品安全性，质量和可追溯性中的应用^☆

在食品安全性，质量和可追溯性方面始终要求更高的领域，正在不断促进健壮，高效，敏感和具有成本效益的分析方法的发展。基于质谱的代谢组学是当今在许多分析领域具有巨大潜力的关键工具，并且已被证明能够应对食品科学领域中与这些领域相关的一些重要挑战。概述了基于质谱的代谢组学方法在食品质量，安全性和可追溯性评估中的最新应用，涵盖了2014年至2017年出版的最相关的著作。还提供并讨论了分析平台和数据处理。