Analysis of Peculiar Flavour of Buckwheat Honey

A gas-stripping device was used to purge and trap the peculiar flavor volatiles ofbuckwheat honey with cold ethvl ether as sorbent.The flavor ethereal solution,afterconcentration, was analysed by GC/MS/DS on OV-1 and OV-225 FSOT columns. Dual-column retention time measurement on the sample and authentic standards were used toconfirm the identification,2methyIpropanal, butanal, 2-methylbutanal,3-methylbu-tanal,n-pentanal,furaldehyde were found to be the main flavor contributing subs-tances in the honey.