Aut
henticity assessment of
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1) and
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2) from peac
h (
Prunus persicavar.
persica), apricot (
Prunus armeniaca), and nectarine (
Prunus persica var.
nectarina) was performedusing gas c
hromatograp
hy-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) in t
he combustion (C) andpyrolysis (P) mode. In addition, commercially available synt
hetic (nature-identical)
1 and
2 as well asbiotec
hnologically produced samples (declared to be "natural") were c
haracterized by t
heir
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2H
V-SMOWand
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13C
V-PDB values. For t
he
Prunus fruits under study, rat
her narrow ranges of
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOW data of
1, varying from - 34.6 to - 38.4 and -160 to -206, respectively, wereobtained. Synt
hetic references of
1 s
howed
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOW data ranging from -27.4 to-28.3 and -151 to -184, respectively. Samples of
1 declared to be "natural" ex
hibited rangesfrom -28.1 to -29.2 and -192 to -286 for
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOW, respectively. For
2from peac
h, apricot, and nectarine,
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13C
V-PDB values ranging from -34.0 to -37.9 weredetermined; t
he
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2H
V-SMOW values ranged from -171 to -
228. T
he
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOWdata for synt
hetic
2 were -28.2 and -171, respectively, t
hat is, similar to t
hose of
2 from "natural"origin, ranging from -27.7 to -30.1 and -185 to -230 for
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOW,respectively. GC-C/P-IRMS allowed clear-cut analytical differentiation of t
he synt
hetic and "ex-plant"origin of
1 and
2, w
hereas narrow ranges of
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13C
V-PDB and
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2H
V-SMOW data were found for samplesof synt
hetic and "natural" origin.Keywords: Aut
henticity;
13C/
12C ratio;
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2H/
1H ratio; IRMS; isotope ratiomass spectrometry; lactones,
Prunus