Abstract
Cannabis is an exponentially growing market as legalization continues worldwide. Selective breeding creates strains with various scents to meet consumer demands and preferences. The scents can be attributed to the volatile secondary metabolites, which are often present at very low concentrations. High-capacity extraction techniques, coupled with gas chromatography-olfactometry/mass spectrometry (GC-O/MS), enable the separation and identification of low-concentration, sensory-active compounds in complex sample matrices with minimal sample preparation time. In this study, the GC-O method, aroma dilution analysis (ADA), a solvent-free approach to aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA), is used to determine the odor potency of sensory-active compounds in cannabis.
Keywords
Cannabis, Sensory Directed Analysis (SDA), Aroma Dilution Analysis (ADA), Dynamic Headspace (DHS), Selectable 1D/2D-Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry/Mass Spectrometry (1D/2D-GC-O/MS)
