Abstract:
Changes of aroma components in burley tobacco during aging were studied.The results showed that the content of aroma components in burley tobacco was changed dramatically during aging.Among the 17 kinds of neutral aroma components identified, many of them such as furfural, furfuryl alcohol, benzaldehyde, phenylethyl alcohol, oxo-isophorone, megastigmatrienones and farnesyl acetone were increased significantly during the aging process.Among the 12 kinds of the basic aroma components identified, although 6 of them namely pyridine, 2, 3-dimethyl pyrazine, 2, 5-dimethyl pyrazine, 2, 3, 5-trimethyl pyrazine, tetramethyl pyrazine and 2-acetyl pyridine were increased significantly, the total amount of the basic aroma components was decreased notabaly during the aging process.