Lukas Bodenbender

Researchers at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Mannheim developed a green, high-throughput HS-GC-IMS method using hydrogen carrier gas to rapidly and efficiently profile VOCs in cocoa liquor while reducing solvent use, preparation time, and energy consumption. LCGC International spoke to Philipp Weller and Lukas Bodenbender, two of the authors of a paper resulting from this study, about their work.

The approach describes a new untargeted, trapped-headspace (THS)-GC-QMS-IMS setup for an exhaustive VOC analysis of complex food, beverage, and flavor products, and allows the classification of mango cultivars in combination with chemometric data evaluation.