Capillary gas chromatographic - mass spectrometric determination of the flavour composition of dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica L.)

✍ Scribed by Yvonne Holm; Raimo Hiltunen; Irma Nykanen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 252 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/ffj.2730030304

✦ Synopsis

The flavour composition of dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica L.) was analysed by capillary gas chromatographymass spectrometry. Altogether 57 compounds were identified and 1 1 unknown components detected. The volatile oil of dragonhead consists mainly of oxygenated, acyclic monoterpenes; geranyl acetate, geranial, neral, geraniol and neryl acetate together account for about 90% of the oil. Monoterpene hydrocarbons are present only in trace amounts. The compounds which could not be identified are oxygenated monoterpenes, oxygenated sesquiterpenes, one sesquiterpene hydrocarbon and a mixture of an oxygenated monoterpene and a sesquiterpene hydrocarbon.