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Table 2.

Characteristic aroma compounds and odor units in pineapple pulp and core.

Aroma compounds	Odor threshold ^a (µg kg⁻¹)	Odor activity value (OAV)
Aroma compounds	Odor threshold ^a (µg kg⁻¹)	pulp	core
Methyl 3-(methylthio)propanoate	180	0.15	0.06
Ethyl 3-(methylthio)propanoate	7	13.03	6.10
Ethyl butanoate	1	6.09	-
Ethyl 2-methylbutanoate	0.006	1693.33	-
Methyl hexanoate	70	0.36	0.11
Ethyl hexanoate	0.76	139.75	63.71
Ethyl (E)-3-hexenoate	2	2.91	-
DMHF	0.03	106.33	-
β-Caryophyllene	64	-	0.04
Methyl octanoate	200	0.04	0.02
α-Terpineol	330	-	0.005
Nonanal	1	-	3.91
Decanal	0.1	29.4	32.0
Ethyl decanoate	6300	0.0018	5.80*10⁻⁴

^a odor thresholds reported by: Tokitomo et al. [2]; Feng et al. [3]; Jorge et al. [19]; Chen et al. [20].