Nondestructive characterization gender of chicken eggs by odor using SPME/GC-MS coupled with chemometrics.

ABSTRACT: It's a difficult task for researchers to identify the gender of chicken eggs by nondestructive approach in the early of incubation, which not only could reduce the cost of incubation, but also could improve the welfare of chicks. Therefore, SPME/GC-MS has been applied to investigate its potential as a nondestructive tool for characterizing the differences of odor between male and female chicken eggs during early of incubation and even before hatch. The results showed that more volatiles were found in female White leghorn eggs during early of incubation and 6,10-dimethyl-5,9-undecadien-2-one, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, nonanal, decanal, octanal, 2-nonen-1-ol, etc. were important for the distinction of male and female White leghorn eggs during E₁-E₉ of incubation. 2-ethyl

SUBMITTER: Xiang XL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8741610 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature