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. 2023 Aug 23;12(17):3169. doi: 10.3390/foods12173169

Table 5.

OAV values of compounds with different cooking treatments.

Name Threshold Value (μg/kg) Flavour Description Raw Fry Roast Steam
Propionaldehyde 4.5 Dirt, pungent 8.92 15.52 / /
Pentanal 8 Jam, bread flavor 4.72 6.83 15.39 9.26
Hexanal 4.5 Fatty, apple aroma 7.93 188.25 / 208.58
Heptaldehyde 10 Fishy, harsh odour / / / 5.36
Octanal 0.7 Grassy, fishy smell / 46.27 / /
Nonanal 3.5 Fatty, citrusy, floral / 11.80 / 40.24
Decanal 2.8 Fatty, citrusy / 61 24.30 8.43
Methyl mercaptan 4 Rotten vegetable hearts and rotten egg smell 27.7 / 63.13 23.89
1-Penten-3-ol 400 Fruity / / 1.57 /
1-Pentanol 4000 Fermented fruit flavor, bread flavor / / / 0.026
1-Hexanol 700 Fruity, sweet, wine-like, grassy 0.22 3.92 1.75 0.49
1-Octen-3-ol 7 Mushroom flavor, grass flavour 12.45 95.56 73.63 19.11
2-Heptanone 2.8 Fruity, creamy 16.65 99.95 / /