Challenges in Food Flavor and Volatile Compounds Analysis, the Second Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Flavours and Fragrances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 284
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food flavors—formation and analytical aspects; extraction techniques in flavor analysis; gas chromatography–mass spectrometry in aroma research; electronic noses; food volatiles for authenticity testing; microbial volatiles; off-flavors
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Interests: food of plant origin; aroma compounds; GC-olfactometry; sensory analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The analysis of food flavor and volatile compounds is a demanding task for analytical chemists. The diverse chemical nature of these compounds, and often their instability and extremely low odor thresholds for important odorants, make their extraction from the food matrix, as well as their separation and detection, challenging. Their isolation is mainly performed using extraction techniques based on sorbent technologies (SPME, TF-SPME, HCSE, SBSE and P&T). Two-dimensional gas chromatography, especially comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC × GC), plays an increasingly important role in research on aroma/volatiles, and detection methods based on mass spectrometry are routinely used.
This Special Issue originates from the symposium series “Challenges in Food Flavor and Volatile Compounds Analysis,” organized for the fifth time at the Poznan University of Life Sciences (www.volatilomics.puls.edu.pl ) on 1–3 July 2026. We welcome publications by speakers and participants of this symposium, as well as contributions from other authors whose research is focused on the analytical aspects of food aroma and flavor compounds.
Prof. Dr. Henryk H. Jeleń
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Majcher
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flavor
- aroma compounds
- volatiles
- gas chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- sample preparation
- hyphenated methods
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