Performance of alternative drying techniques on hop (Humulus lupulus L.) aroma quality: An HS-SPME-GC-MS-O and chemometrics combined approach was written by Su, Xueqian;Hurley, Ken;Xu, Zhiyuan;Xu, Yixiang;Rutto, Laban;O′Keefe, Sean;Scoggins, Holly;Yin, Yun. And the article was included in Food Chemistry in 2022.Formula: C8H16O2 The following contents are mentioned in the article:
Economically feasible and effective hop drying strategies are urgently needed to respond to the increasing number of microbrewers in US. In this study, hops were dried by dehydrator-drying (52 °C), oven-drying (52 °C) and freeze-drying (25 °C) until the final moisture content reached 8-10%. Headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatog.-mass spectrometry-olfactometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS-O) was employed to analyze the aroma profiles in all dried hops. Me octanoate, β-myrcene, trans-α-bergamotene, linalool and geraniol were perceived as high-intensity aromas in all samples. Generally, dehydrator-dried hops contained the highest contents of aroma compounds among all groups, showing an increase of 5-23% and 6-37% when compared to freeze- and oven-dried hops, resp. Principal component and hierarchical cluster analyses also revealed aroma content differences from three drying methods. Dehydrator drying at 52 °C was therefore considered as an alternative and promising drying approach for smaller-scale hop processing, which can largely benefit regional producers and local craft breweries. This study involved multiple reactions and reactants, such as Methyl heptanoate (cas: 106-73-0Formula: C8H16O2).
Methyl heptanoate (cas: 106-73-0) belongs to esters. Esters typically have a pleasant smell; those of low molecular weight are commonly used as fragrances and are found in essential oils and pheromones. Esters are more polar than ethers but less polar than alcohols. They participate in hydrogen bonds as hydrogen-bond acceptors, but cannot act as hydrogen-bond donors, unlike their parent alcohols. This ability to participate in hydrogen bonding confers some water-solubility.Formula: C8H16O2
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