Natural Occurrence of Undecaenes in Some Fruits and Vegetables

authored by

RALF G. BERGER, FRIEDRICH DRAWERT, HUBERT KOLLMANNSBERGER, SIEGFRIED NITZ

Abstract

1‐(E,Z)‐3,5‐undecatriene and 1‐(E,Z,Z)‐3,5,8‐undecatetraene were isolated under enzyme inhibition from edible parts of peach, passion fruit, and kiwi; the triene only was found in celery, parsley, mandarine, apple and pear. Capillary gas chromatography, sniffing‐capillary gas chromatography, and combined “live”‐capillary gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry of the concentrated liquid‐liquid extracts were used to establish their identity. Owing to their ultra‐low odor detection thresholds and the proposed biogenesis, these trace compounds may be “character impacts” in a wide variety of food flavors of plant origin.

External Organisation(s)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of food science

Volume

50

Pages

1655-1656

No. of pages

2

ISSN

0022-1147

Publication date

11.1985

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Food Science

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1985.tb10558.x (Access: Unknown)