,49(2),311~317,1985311ComparisonofCompositionsofOdorComponentsofNattoandCookedSoybeansEtsukoSugawara,TetsuoIto,*SatoshiOdagiri,*KikueKubota**andAkioKobayashi**IwatePrefecturalMoriokaJuniorCollege,Sumiyoshi,Morioka020,Japan*DepartmentofAgriculturalChemistry,IwateUniversity,Veda,Morioka020,Japan**LaboratoryojFoodChemistry,OchanomizuUniversity,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo112,JapanReceivedMay1,1984Natto,atraditionalJapanesefoodproduct,waspreparedfromcookedsoybeansbyfermentationanditsodorconcentratewasobtainedwithasimultaneousdistillationandextractionsystem
Itwascomparedtothoseobtainedfromsoybeanscookedfor0~3,3~5
5~8hr,respectively,bygaschromatographyandgaschromatography-massspectrometry
Intheodorconcentratesofthecookedsoybeans,hexanal,(£>2-hexenalandhexanolcontributingtothegreenandgra