Corinna Dawid, Andrea Henze, Oliver Frank, Anneke Glabasnia, Mathias Rupp, Kirsten Büning, Diana Orlikowski, Matthias Bader, Thomas Hofmann
Chair for Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, Technische Universität München, Lise-Meitner-Strasse 34, D-85354 Freising, Germany.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 2012 Mar 21To gain a more comprehensive knowledge on whether, besides the well-known piperine, other compounds are responsible for the pungent and tingling oral impression imparted by black pepper, an ethanol extract prepared from black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) was screened for its key sensory-active nonvolatiles by application of taste dilution analysis (TDA). Purification of the compounds perceived with the highest sensory impact, followed by LC-MS and 1D/2D NMR experiments as well as synthesis, led to the structure determination of 25 key pungent and tingling phytochemicals, among which the eight amides 1-(octadeca-2E,4E,13Z-trienyl)piperidine, 1-(octadeca-2E,4E,13Z-trienyl)pyrrolidine, (2E,4E,13Z)-N-isobutyl-octadeca-2,4,13-trienamide, 1-(octadeca-2E,4E,12Z-trienoyl)-pyrrolidine, 1-(eicosa-2E,4E,15Z-trienyl)piperidine, 1-(eicosa-2E,4E,15Z-trienyl)pyrrolidine, (2E,4E,15Z)-N-isobutyl-eicosa-2,4,15-trienamide, and 1-(eicosa-2E,4E,14Z-trienoyl)-pyrrolidine were not yet reported in literature. Sensory studies by means of a modified half-tongue test revealed recognition thresholds ranging from 3.0 to 1150.2 nmol/cm² for pungency and from 520.6 to 2162.1 nmol/cm² for the tingling orosensation depending on their chemical structure.
Corinna Dawid, Andrea Henze, Oliver Frank, Anneke Glabasnia, Mathias Rupp, Kirsten Büning, Diana Orlikowski, Matthias Bader, Thomas Hofmann. Structural and sensory characterization of key pungent and tingling compounds from black pepper (Piper nigrum L.). Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 2012 Mar 21;60(11):2884-95
PMID: 22352449
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