Fast Screening of Apple Flavor Compounds using SPME in Combination with Fast Capillary GC-MS using a Modular Accelerated Column Heater (MACH) and Quadrupole Mass Spectrometric Detector (qMSD)

A fast HS-SPME-CGC-MSD method for the analysis of flavor compounds of apples was developed. A complete profile was obtained after solid phase micro-extraction within 3 minutes GC run-time using a modular accelerated column heater (MACH). Detection with a state-of-the-art quadrupole MSD allowed a data acquisition rate of 20 Hz, while the mass spectral data quality was maintained. The gain in analysis speed was approximately a factor 10 in comparison to the standard method used in the customers laboratory.