Detection of different adulteration in cinnamon powder using hyperspectral imaging and artificial neural network method

[Display omitted] •Different fraud levels in cinnamon spice was detected using hyperspectral imaging.•The efficient features were extracted from effective channels and then classified.•Sea foam powder and chickpea and wheat flours were the adulterants.•The artificial neural network method was used for classification of fraud levels.•The accuracies for the adulterants were 98.9, 100, and 100%, respectively. Cinnamon is one of the medicinal spices that is important in point of economic and human health. The goal of the present research was to classify the levels of different adulterations in the spice using hyperspectral imaging technology. In the present research, three adulterants were investigated including sea foam powder and chickpea and wheat flour with 0, 5, 15, 30, and 50% adulteration levels. After sample preparation, the hyperspectral images of them were acquired using a line scan imaging system. The effective wavelengths were selected and image features were extracted. The effective features were selected and classified using the artificial neural network method. The classification accuracies of the classifier to identify sea foam powder and chickpea and wheat flour adulterants were equal to 98.9, 100, and 100%, respectively. The results showed the high ability of hyperspectral imaging combined with artificial neural networks method to detect adulteration in cinnamon with high reliability.