Canonical Correlation Between Flavor Components and Smoking Quality of Flue-cured Tobacco

Based on the simple correlation analysis, the relationship between flavor components and smoking quality of flue-cured tobacco was preliminarily analyzed with canonical correlation in multiple statistics analysis. The results showed that: 1) most of the flavor components strongly positively correlated with smoking quality, while a minority showed strong negative correlations and a few of the flavor components did not show any strong correlation; 2) the total amount of neutral flavor components, that of acidic flavor components and that of flavor components strongly positively correlated with the quality and concentration of aroma, offensive odor, irritancy, taste strength and after taste, while the total amount of basic flavor components showed no significant correlation with smoking quality.