Elderberry flavour

The berry or the small fruits consist of strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, black currant, blueberry, cranberry and elderberry. The volatiles responsible for the flavour of small fruits are esters, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, terpenoids, furanones and sulfur compounds (Table 7.3, Figs. 7.1-7.7). As fruit ripen, the concentration of aroma volatiles rapidly increases, closely following pigment formation [43]. 

Key flavour compounds Strawberry Fragaria spp.) Raspberry Blackberry Black currant Blueberry Cranberry Elderberry... 

Key flavour compounds Strawberry (Fragaria spp.) Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) Black currant (Ribes nigrum) Blueberry (Vaccini-um corym-bosum) Cranberry (Vaccini-um mac-rocarpon) Elderberry (Sambucus nigra)... 

The fruity-sweet flavours in elderberry juice and products have primarily been associated with aliphatic esters such as ethyl 2-methylbutanoate, ethyl 3-methylbutanoate, methyl heptanoate, methyl octanoate, methyl nonanoate, alcohols (2-methyl-l-propanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol) and the aldehydes pentanal, heptanal and octanal [127, 129, 130, 132],... 

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