Foods (Nov 2021)

The Effect of Prickly Ash (<i>Zanthoxylum bungeanum</i> Maxim) on the Taste Perception of Stewed Sheep Tail Fat by LC-QTOF-MS/MS and a Chemometrics Analysis

  • Yan Huang,
  • Dandan Pu,
  • Zhilin Hao,
  • Xiao Yang,
  • Yuyu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10112709
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
p. 2709

Abstract

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This work aims to explore the contribution of prickly ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim) on the taste perception of stewed sheep tail fat. Liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS) was applied to analyze the taste-related compounds. A total of 99 compounds in different sheep tail fat samples were identified. The semi-quantitative results showed that there were differences between the samples. The partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) model without overfitting was used to investigate the effect of prickly ash. Eleven marker compounds were predicted with a variable importance for projection > 1, fold change > 2 and p < 0.05. An additional experiment showed that guanosine 5′-monophosphate, malic acid, inosine and adenosine 5′-monophosphate could improve the umami and saltiness taste of stewed sheep tail fat.

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