Strawberry aroma

A little bit of searching suggests that strawberry aroma is quite complicated. The methyl and ethyl esters of butanoic and hexanoic acids are certainly heavily involved, but 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone (HDMF) and the 4-methoxy variant are considered to be the key components.

Here is HDMF (again produced using Avogadro and ScreenToGif - it's going to be a long time before I get bored of playing with this!



Whilst I've been looking into this, M has been busy turning the left-overs from yesterday into sorbet. I'm hoping the torrential rain from today (which closed part of Kingston) will eventually stop and we'll get summer back to enjoy eating sorbet!