Abstract:The feasibility of amino acids content analysis was studied for determination of the geographical origin of goat meat. The contents of 17 amino acids were detected in 50 hydrolyzed goat meat samples from five regions of Yunnan Province. By using analysis of variance (ANOVA), principal component analysis (PCA), cluster analysis (CA), K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) analysis and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The results showed that, except Cys, the amino acids contents were all different in the samples from different places. Especifically, all the amino acids contents besides Ala and Pro were the highest in the samples from Luoping area, while Ala and Met were the highest amino acid in those from Shilin area. And the content of Pro was the highest in those from Lijiang area and Kunming area. The Kunming and Longling samples had lower amino acids contents than the other samples , and these samples from the two sources showed significant differences (P<0.05) in Glu, Phe, Lys, Arg and Pro contents.. PCA and CA classified the samples into different categories, which was almost consistent to the geographical origin. The KNN accuracy with cross-validation test reached 78.58% in Kunming samples, 100% in Lijiang samples 100% in Shilin samples as well as 93.48% in all samples. ANN provided the best results in classifying geographical origin, showing 100% accuracy in samples from Kunming, Lijiang and Shilin. Therefore, it is feasible to determine the geographical origin of goat meat by the amino acids content analysis.