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. 2019 Oct 9;8(10):460. doi: 10.3390/foods8100460

Table 1.

Correlation coefficients R between peak areas of selected compounds determined by HS-SPME-GC-MS and peak areas of peaks 1 to 7 from IM fingerprint spectra of bulk cocoa samples (n = 5).

Compound Rpeak 1 Rpeak 2 Rpeak 3 Rpeak 4 Rpeak 5 Rpeak 6 Rpeak 7
2,3-Butanediol −0.725 −0.556 0.080 0.904 * −0.094 −0.232 0.911 *
1-Butanol-3-methyl-acetate −0.006 −0.152 −0.983 * 0.292 0.540 0.776 0.000
Benzaldehyde −0.323 0.266 −0.146 −0.338 0.665 −0.244 −0.034
Trimethylpyrazine −0.702 −0.090 0.331 0.654 0.057 −0.479 0.871
Acetophenone 0.166 −0.513 −0.944 * 0.310 0.154 0.875 −0.152
Tetramethypyrazine −0.619 0.363 0.543 0.250 0.237 −0.713 0.681
Linalool −0.156 0.677 0.041 −0.610 0.718 −0.355 −0.190
Nonanal 0.960 * 0.065 −0.018 −0.665 −0.522 0.438 −0.965 *
Phenethyl alcohol −0.483 0.227 −0.004 0.502 0.354 −0.153 0.658
Phenethyl acetate −0.338 0.858 0.349 −0.280 0.621 −0.577 0.234

* Marked correlation coefficients are significant (p < 0.05).