This paper discusses colorants found in Tumulus MM, the tomb of King Midas or his father, at Gordion, capital Phrygian kingdom. Chromophores, colorants, and auxiliaries are preserved largely independent textiles they once colored. The MM now fragmentary due to degradation processes that occurred inside chamber. For DHA 26 (Vienna, Austria, 2007), we discussed a group golden-yellow fragments fro...

The importance of juice beverages in daily food habits makes juice authentication an important issue, for example, to avoid fraudulent practices. A successful classification model should address two important cornerstones of the quality control of juicebased beverages: to monitor the amount of juice and to monitor the amount (and nature) of other substances added to the beverages. Particularly,...