Composition of volatile compounds of honey of various floral origin and beebread collected in Lithuania

Food Chemistry

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 988-997

  Kaškoniene, Vilma ^a   Venskutonis, Petras Rimantas ^a   Čeksteryte, Violeta ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Beebread; Honey; SPME GC MS; Volatile compounds

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLBUTANENITRILE; ACID; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZENE; BENZENEACETALDEHYDE; BENZYLNITRILE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DECANAL; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; FURFURAL; HOTRIENOL; HYDROCARBON; ISOBUTANE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LILAC ALDEHYDE; LINALOOL; NONANAL; NONANOIC ACID; OCTANAL; OCTANOIC ACID; PENTANENITRILE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEEBREAD; CARAWAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOVER; FLOWER; HONEY; LITHUANIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MELISSOPALYNOLOGICAL METHOD; NECTAR; POLLEN; RAPESEED; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORAGE; TECHNIQUE;

CARUM CARVI; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 46949101741     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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