Formation of Aroma by Hydrolysis of Glycosidically Bound Components

SUMMARY Acid hydrolysis has been used in order to establish the presence of glycosidically bound components in fruits. During this treatment, rearrangement reactions of free monoterpene alcohols generally occur. This inconvenient may be avoided using enzymatic hydrolysis, however the specificity of enzymes requires the previous knowledge of the structures of compounds used as substrates in order to control the reaction. Several glycosidically bound components, glucosides, rutinosides and arabinoglucosides present in grapes and apricot were isolated, separated and identified using non destructive methods, MS-MS low energy CAD spectra and HPLC. s-D-glucosidase, α-L-rhamnosidase, α-L-arabinase…