Identification of volatile compounds in thinning discards from
plum trees (Prunus salicina Lindl.) cultivar Harry Pickstone

Rossana   PODESTÁ; Cristiane   Manfé PAGLIOSA; Manoela   Alano VIEIRA; João Gustavo   PROVESI; Edna Regina   AMANTE; Ana Lúcia   Bertarello ZENI; Ismael   RAITZ; Ricardo   Andrade REBELO

Identification of volatile compounds in thinning discards from plum trees (Prunus salicina Lindl.) cultivar Harry Pickstone

Autores

Rossana PODESTÁ

Cristiane Manfé PAGLIOSA

Manoela Alano VIEIRA

João Gustavo PROVESI

Edna Regina AMANTE

Ana Lúcia Bertarello ZENI

Ismael RAITZ

Ricardo Andrade REBELO

Editor

Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos

Descripción

Plum (Prunus salicina Lindl. cv. Harry Pickstone), a China indigenous fruit, is widely produced and consumed in countries such as Japan and Brazil. The practice of thinning is common in horticulture and the fruits removed are discarded as waste. Like the great majority of vegetables, these thinning discards also contain essential oils which have not been investigated until the present time. The extraction of the plum thinning discards volatile oil, through the hydrodistillation method, produced a yield of 0.06% (m/m) and a total of 21 components were identified, with 11 of them being responsible for 72,9% of the total oil composition. The major compounds determined through GC and GC-MS were Z-α-bisabolene (13.7%), n-hexadecanoic acid (12.7%), phytol (12.7%), and β-caryophyllene (10.4%).