The effect of the addition of two natural antioxidant extracts (sage and rosemary essential oils) andone synthetic (BHT) on the generation of volatile com
pounds in liver
pât&
eacute;s from Iberian and white
pigs was
analyzed using SPME-GC-MS. Li
pid-derived volatiles such as aldehydes [hex
anal, oct
anal,non
anal, he
pt-(
Z)-4-enal, oct-(
E)-2-enal, non-(
Z)-2-enal, dec-(
E)-2-enal, deca-(
E,
Z)-2,4-dienal] andalcohols (
pentan-1-ol, hexan-1-ol, oct-1-en-3-ol) were the most abundant com
pounds in the heads
paceof
porcine liver
pât&
eacute;s. Pât&
eacute;s from different
pig breeds
presented different volatiles
profiles due totheir different oxidation susce
ptibilities as a
probable result of their fatty acid
profiles and vitamin Econtent. Regardless of the origin of the
pât&
eacute;s, the addition of BHT successfully reduced the amountof volatiles derived from PUFA oxidation. Added essential oils showed a different effect on thegeneration of volatiles whether they were added in
pât&
eacute;s from Iberian or white
pigs because theyinhibited li
pid oxidation in the former and enhanced oxidative instability in the latter. SPME successfullyallowed the isolation and
analysis of 41 volatile ter
penes from
pât&
eacute;s with added sage and rosemaryessential oils including
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pinene,
-myrcene, 1-limonene, (
E)-caryo
phyllene, linalool, cam
phor, and1,8-cineole, which might contribute to the aroma characteristics of liver
pât&
eacute;s.Keywords: Liver
pât&
eacute;s; fatty acids; li
pid-derived volatiles; volatile ter
penes; rosemary; sage; BHT