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Department of Food Science and Technology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331
ABSTRACT
The neutral volatile fraction of fresh sweet-cream butter was analyzed semiquantitatively by capillary gas-liquid chromatography. Butter concentrations for 49 compounds ranged from approximately five parts for
-dodecalactone to 5 x 10–4 parts per million (ppm) for benzene. Other compounds whose concentrations were determined include odd-number methyl ketones, several alkanals,
-lactones,
-lactones, diacetyl, ethyl esters, and a number of aromatic compounds. Delta-C10; C12, and C14 lactones were above 1 ppm; methyl ketones were approximately 0.1 to 0.4 ppm; alkanals were generally lower than ketones, and aromatic compounds were in the parts per billion.
1 Technical Paper no. 2581, Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station.
2 This investigation was supported by U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Grant no. 12-14-100-7657(73).
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