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Determination of Flavour Compounds in Rabbit Meat by HS-SPME/GC-MS

WANG Jun,HE Zhi-fei,LI Hong-jun,LIU Ya-na   

  1. 1. College of Food Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
    2. Chongqing Special Food Programme and Technology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Online:2013-07-25 Published:2013-08-02

Abstract:

In order to understand the formation mechanism and pathways of flavor substances, the changes of major
volatile flavor compounds in rabbit meat were analyzed. HS-SPME combined with GC-MS was used for the qualitative
and semiquantitative determination of volatile compounds in rabbit forepaws, rabbit hind leg, rabbit back muscle and rabbit
abdominal samples using 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine as an internal standard. Totally 52, 42, 36 and 70 volatile flavor compounds
were identified from rabbit forepaws, rabbit hind leg, rabbit back muscle and rabbit abdominal samples, respectively. The
major flavor compounds in rabbit meat were aldehydes, ketones, alcohols and hydrocarbons.

Key words: rabbit meat, volatile flavour compound, headspace solid phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)