| Title: | "Quantitative determination of the boar taint compounds androstenone, skatole, indole, 3alpha-androstenol and 3beta-androstenol in wild boars (Sus scrofa) reveals extremely low levels of the tryptophan-related degradation products" |
| Address: | "University of Bonn, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Bioanalytics, Endenicher Allee 11-13, D-53115 Bonn, Germany" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.06.105 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1873-7072 (Electronic) 0308-8146 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The major boar taint compounds androstenone and skatole as well as the minor compounds indole, 3alpha-androstenol and 3beta-androstenol were determined in back fat samples of 23 male wild boars by applying a recently published SIDA-HS-SPME-GC/MS method. The boar pheromones androstenone, 3alpha-androstenol and 3beta-androstenol were found in extraordinary high concentrations, resulting in mean values of 3329ng/g androstenone, 1273 ng/g 3alpha-androstenol and 545 ng/g 3beta-androstenol. Interestingly, skatole was not detectable in about 50% of the boars and negligibly low in all other samples as expressed by a mean skatole value of only 14 ng/g. Indole was also found in every sample, but again in low concentrations with a mean value of 40 ng/g. Possible factors explaining this remarkably low skatole deposition in wild boars such as intestinal flora and anatomy, dietary composition, housing or genetic predisposition are discussed in this paper" |
| Keywords: | Androstenols/*analysis Animals Fats/chemistry Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Indoles/*analysis Male Odorants/*analysis Skatole/*analysis Sus scrofa Tryptophan/*analysis; |
| Notes: | "MedlineFischer, Jochen Wust, Matthias eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2012/09/18 Food Chem. 2012 Dec 15; 135(4):2128-32. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.06.105. Epub 2012 Jul 14" |
