RT Journal Article
T1 Volatile Profiling of Strawberry Fruits Cultivated in a Soilless System to Investigate Cultivar-Dependent Chemical Descriptors
A1 González Domínguez, Raúl
A1 Sayago Gómez, Ana
A1 Akhatou, Ikram
A1 Fernández Recamales, María Ángeles
AB Volatile compounds are essential for food organoleptic characteristics and of great utilityfor the food industry as potential markers for authenticity purposes (e.g., variety, geographicalorigin, adulteration). The aim of this study was to determine the characteristic volatile compoundsof strawberry samples grown in a soilless system by using headspace solid phase micro-extractioncoupled with gas chromatography and to investigate the influence of cultivar (Festival, Candonga,Camarosa) on this volatile profile. We observed that Festival and, to a lesser extent, Candongavarieties were characterized by the richest aroma-related profiles, including higher levels of esters,furanones and terpenes. In particular, methyl butyrate, hexyl hexanoate, linalool, geraniol andfuraneol were the most abundant aromatic compounds detected in the three varieties of strawberries.Complementarily, the application of pattern recognition chemometric approaches, including principalcomponent analysis and linear discriminant analysis, demonstrated that concentrations of specificvolatiles can be employed as chemical descriptors to discriminate between strawberry cultivars.Accordingly, geraniol and hexyl hexanoate were found to be the most significant volatiles for thediscrimination of strawberry varieties.
PB MDPI
SN 2304-8158
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18899
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18899
LA eng
NO González Domínguez, R., Sayago Gómez, A., Akhatou, I., & Fernández Recamales, Á. (2020). Volatile Profiling of Strawberry Fruits Cultivated in a Soilless System to Investigate Cultivar-Dependent Chemical Descriptors. Foods, 9(6), 768. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9060768
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026