Qualitative Analysis of Aroma Components in Beer Using Peak Deconvolution

The gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC-MS), which has excellent qualitative analysis capabilities, is used in analyses of the aroma components in foods and beverages. However, when the sample contains heavy matrix or is highly concentrated by pretreatment, many peaks are detected, and qualitative analysis of small peaks becomes difficult. In such cases, deconvolution makes it possible to detect and identify those peaks, even when the target peak is overlapped by a neighboring peak.
In this article, a comprehensive qualitative analysis of the aroma components in beer was possible by peak deconvolution by using the GCMSsolution AMDIS linked function, which enables seamless deconvolution by AMDIS from GCMSsolution.