Volatile components of a beef ½avouring prepared from a thermal reaction model system of enzymatically hydrolysed beef/amino acids/sugars were extracted by simultaneous distillation/extraction (SDE) and dynamic headspace sampling (DHS) methods, then subjected to aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA) and dynamic headspace dilution analysis (DHDA) methods; 32 and 48 odour-active peaks were revealed from the SDE and DHS isolates, respectively. With the highest ½avour dilution (FD) factors, 2-methyl-3-furanthiol, 3-methylthiopropanal and 2-furanmethanethiol were identi¼ed as the key aroma compounds of the beef ½avouring by both sample preparative methods, SDE and DHS. Moreover, methyl propyl disulphide, ethyl-2-methylbutyrate, allyl methyl disulphide, thiazole, 1-butanol, 1-nonen-3-one, 2-ethenyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine, (E, E)-2,4-heptadienal and 2-undecenal were also identi¼ed as important aroma components of the beef ½avouring.a Retention indices (RI) on DB-5/DB-Wax column. b Odour description as perceived by panelists during GC-O. c Flavour dilution factors were determined on DB-5/DB-Wax column. d Identi¼ed by comparing it with the reference compounds on the basis of MS spectra, RI, odour quality and authentic compounds. e Identi¼ed tentatively by comparing it with literature data on the basis of RI and odour quality.
AROMA EXTRACT DILUTION ANALYSIS OF A BEEF FLAVOURING 189As summarized in Table 2, 48 odour-active compounds were identi¼ed by DHDA; 34 and 33 odour-active regions were perceived on the DB-5 and DB-Wax columns, respectively. The FD chromatograms are shown in Figure 2. On the basis of FD factors, the most potent odour-active compounds were 2-methyl-3-furanthiol (meaty, vitamin, 18′), 2-furanmethanethiol (roast, meaty, 26′) and 3methylthiopropanal (cooked potato, 28′), which were also identi¼ed as the key aroma-active compounds by SDE-c Flavour dilution factors were determined on DB-5/DBWAX column. FD factors of 1, 4, 16, 60 and 240 corresponded to purge volumes of 40 min, 10 min, 2.5 min, 40 s, 10 s respectively. d Compound identi¼ed by comparison with reference compound on the basis of MS spectra, RI, odour quality. e Compound tentatively identi¼ed by comparison with literature data on the basis of RI and odour quality.
AROMA EXTRACT DILUTION ANALYSIS OF A BEEF FLAVOURING 1913-Mereapto-2-butanone is an important aroma component reported as character-impact compounds of process ½avouring from several Maillard model systems, such as ribose/ cysteine, 36 glucose/cysteine, 37 rhamnose-cysteine 37 and cysteine/IMP. 34,36 It was also identi¼ed as a key odouractive compound in this study, especially in the case of DHS-DHDA (FD = 3; see Table 2).Moreover, of all aroma-active components identi¼ed in this research, methyl propyl disulphide, ethyl-2methylbutyrate, allyl methyl disulphide, thiazole, 1-butanol, 1-nonen-3-one, 2-ethenyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine, (E,E)-2,4-heptadienal and 2-undecenal, which have rarely been reported as beef ½avour compounds, were also important aroma components of the beef ½avouring. Fig...