The analytical requirements for food testing have increased significantly in recent years. On the one hand, because food fraud is becoming an ever-greater challenge worldwide, and on the other hand because food safety is often difficult to monitor due to the far-reaching trade chains. In addition, the expectations of consumers on the quality of food have increased, and they are demanding extensive information. Cutting-edge analytical methods are required to meet these demands. In this context, non-targeted metabolomics strategies using mass and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers (mass spectrometry [MS]) have proven to be very suitable. MS-based approaches are of particular importance as they provide a comparatively high analytical coverage of the metabolome. Accordingly, the efficiency to address even challenging issues is high. A variety of hardware developments, which are explained in this review, have contributed to these advances. In addition, the potential of future developments is highlighted, some of which are currently not yet commercially available or only used to a comparatively small extent but are expected to gain in importance in the coming years.

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食品代谢组学：最新硬件——非靶向食品真实性和食品安全检测的发展

近年来，食品检测的分析要求显着增加。一方面是因为食品造假在全球范围内成为越来越大的挑战，另一方面是因为食品安全往往因贸易链条长而难以监控。此外，消费者对食品质量的期望提高，他们要求获得广泛的信息。需要尖端的分析方法来满足这些需求。在这种情况下，使用质量和核磁共振光谱仪（质谱 [MS]）的非靶向代谢组学策略已被证明是非常合适的。基于 MS 的方法特别重要，因为它们提供了相对较高的代谢组分析覆盖率。因此，解决具有挑战性的问题的效率也很高。本综述中解释的各种硬件开发促成了这些进步。此外，还强调了未来发展的潜力，其中一些目前尚未商业化或仅在相对较小的范围内使用，但预计在未来几年将变得越来越重要。