Sensory and instrumental profiling of 18 apple cultivars to investigate the relation between perceived quality and odour and flavour

Food Research International

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 677-686

  Aprea, Eugenio ^a   Corollaro, Maria Laura ^a,b   Betta, Emanuela ^a   Endrizzi, Isabella ^a   Demattè, Maria Luisa ^a   Biasioli, Franco ^a   Gasperi, Flavia ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.); Chemometrics; Cultivars; Odour prediction; Sensory analysis; SPME GC MS

Indexed keywords

APPLE CULTIVARS; CHEMOMETRICS; CULTIVARS; DATA SETS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEADSPACES; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTAL METHODS; MAIN GROUP; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARE REGRESSION; PERCEIVED QUALITY; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOLID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SPME-GC-MS; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ODORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FRUITS;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA; CYDONIA OBLONGA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PYRUS; SOLANUM MURICATUM;

EID: 84868245105     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2012.09.023     Document Type: Article

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