Latest Volatiles Stories

NASA Missions Uncover the Moon's Buried Treasures

2010-10-21 13:00:00

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists Thursday revealed new data uncovered by NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The missions found evidence that the lunar soil within shadowy craters is rich in useful...

Flavor Volatiles in Three Rice Cultivars With Low Levels of Digestible Protein During Cooking

2008-09-30 03:00:20

By Zeng, Zhi Zhang, Han; Zhang, Tao; Chen, Jie Yu ABSTRACT A modified headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method in conjunction with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC- MS) has been used for the analysis of the flavor volatiles in three rice cultivars with low levels of digestible protein during cooking. Altogether, 77 volatile compounds were identified, of which 13 components were not previously reported in rice. A total of 61, 71, and 74 peaks, respectively, were assigned to...