Odor intensity evaluation in gas chromatography-olfactometry by finger span method   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Etiévant PX  Callement G  Langlois D  Issanchou S  Coquibus N 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》1999,47(4):1673-1680

This paper describes the potential of evaluating odor intensities in a gas chromatographic effluent by cross-modality matching with the finger span (GC-O-FSCM). A simple prototype is described that allows the precise measurement and acquisition of the distance between the thumb and another finger during the analysis. The stimulation of panelists at the sniffing port with ethyl butyrate shows a log-log relation between peak height values obtained from finger span and stimulus concentrations. It also shows that all panelists are able to perform this task but with different precision, which is used to select them. A triplicate evaluation by GC-O-FSCM of the intensity of flavor constituents in synthetic solutions shows that a four-member panel is perfectly able to determine most of the characteristics of the solutions and to create a finger span multidimensional space highly correlated with the theoretical intensity space.  相似文献   

Effect of antioxidants on the flavor characteristics and the gas chromatography/olfactometry profiles of champagne extracts.     

A Escudero  P Etiévant 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》1999,47(8):3303-3308

This paper aims to investigate the possibility of oxidation of the flavor active constituents of champagne wines during the critical steps of the extraction for analytical purposes and to estimate its consequences on the extract's aroma characteristics. The investigation uses conventional sensory and GC/O analyses. Triangle and similarity sensory tests carried out on champagne samples and on their extracts show that the absence of antioxidants implies a deterioration of the aroma quality. Conversely, the use of 2-tert-butyl-4-methoxyphenol (BHA) as antioxidant gives an extract with an odor judged to be more similar to the original odor of the champagne. The alteration in the odor of the unprotected extracts is explained, from GC/O and GC/MS analyses, as three types of uncontrolled reactions. These are, first, the chemical oxidation of the fusel alcohols and the amino acids; second, the oxidation of sensitive flavor compounds such as enolic lactones and monoterpenic alcohols; and, third, the hydrolysis of fatty acid esters and saturated gamma-lactones. A systematic use of BHA during flavor extraction is therefore advisable, in particular when oxidation phenomena such as wine aging are under study.  相似文献