Abstract
Sichuan industrial paocai and traditional home-made paocai have different aroma profiles due to different manufacturing techniques, but detailed information about the aroma profiles and aroma-producing microorganism of Sichuan industrial paocai remain largely elusive. For this reason, we established and validated an external standard method of headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC–MS) combined with gas chromatography–olfactometry (GC-O) for identification and accurate quantitation of aroma-active compounds in Sichuan industrial paocai. This method was combined with 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to comprehensively analyze the aroma and bacteria profiles of Sichuan industrial paocai. A total of 121 volatile compounds were identified, among which 36 odorants were identified as aroma-active compounds with aroma intensities (AIs) ranging from 0.67 to 5.00 by GC-O. The types of aroma-active compounds in Sichuan industrial paocai were variety-specific to some extent, but the aroma-active compounds shared by different varieties of Sichuan industrial paocai (i.e., skeleton aroma-active compounds) were phenylethyl alcohol, acetic acid, butanoic acid, 2-methylbutanoic acid, ethyl hexanoate, 4-ethylphenol and 4-ethylguaiacol. Moreover, 17 key aroma-active compounds of AI > 1 in radish paocai were quantitated by external standard method, and their odor activity values (OAVs) were calculated based on the odor thresholds. Further, 12 aroma-active compounds with OAV ≥ 1 in one of the radish paocai were selected to construct the recombination model, which revealed good agreement with the original sample. Furthermore, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas were the dominant bacteria in Sichuan industrial paocai. Correlation analysis between 16 dominant bacteria and 36 aroma-active compounds showed that Pediococcus, Arcobacter and Lactobacillus could be the core aroma-producing bacteria of Sichuan industrial paocai.
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