八角茴香真伪鉴别研究进展

Research progress in adulterants identification of star anise

八角茴香作为“药食同源”调味品和中药材,在人们日常生活中应用广泛且价格较高。在巨大的市场需求与利益面前,经常出现使用莽草、红茴香、野八角、日本八角等木兰科植物果实冒充八角茴香进行销售和使用的现象,从而影响到人民群众身体健康和生命安全,八角茴香掺假在全球范围内已成为普遍存在的现象和问题。为了保障消费者合法权益以及人们的用药和饮食安全,本文在对八角茴香及其常见混伪品进行介绍的基础上,着重介绍了八角茴香及其伪品的性状、显微、理化、光谱分析、色谱分析、机器视觉分析、气味指纹分析等不同鉴别方法,并展望了八角茴香真伪鉴别检测的发展方向和相关检测技术的应用前景,以期为八角茴香及其掺伪品的精准鉴别提供参考。

As a kind of‘medicine and food homology’condiment and traditional Chinese medicine,star anise is widely used in people’s daily life and its price is high.In the face of huge market demand and interests,it often appears that the fruits of Magnoliaceae plants such as Illicium anisatum,Illicium henryi Diels,wild star anise,Japanese star anise etc.are sold as star anise,which affects the health and safety of people,and the adulteration of star anise has become a common phenomenon and problem worldwide.In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and the safety of people’s medication and diet,this paper summarized and analyzed the identification methods of star anise and its adulterants based on the introduction of star anise and its common counterfeits,including character identification,physical and microscopic identification,chemical identification,spectral analysis,chromatographic analysis,machine vision analysis,odor fingerprint analysis and so on.Meanwhile,this paper prospected the development direction of authenticity identification and detection of star anise and the application prospects of related detection technologies,which can provide references for the accurate identification of star anise and its adulterants.