Research Article

Effect of Spices on the Formation of VOCs in Roasted Mutton Based on GC-MS and Principal Component Analysis

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The loading plot to the projection was based on 27 volatile compounds. The first two principal components (PC1 and PC2) explain 42.40% and 28.56% of the total variance across the data collection, respectively. 27 VOCs (z1, z3, z4, z5, z6, z8, z10, z11, z16, z28, z31, z33, z37, z40, z43, z45, z46, z48, z49, z51, z55, z57, z65, z66, z67, z77, z86, and z87) were selected by significant comparison and established three homogeneous groups (HG) formed at statistical level to apply principal component analysis (PCA) after that the data were square-root transformed (sample A, only salt; sample B, Chinese prickly ash; sample C, Amomum tsao-ko; sample D, cumin; sample E, ginger).