@article{article_211760, title={The Volatile Compounds of Elderberries (Sambucus nigra L.)}, journal={Natural Volatiles and Essential Oils}, volume={1}, pages={51–54}, year={2014}, author={A?alar, Hale and Dem?rc?, Betül and Ba?er, Kemal Hüsnü}, keywords={Elderberry, Microdistillation, Gas Chromatography, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy, Phenyl acetaldehyde}, abstract={<p>Elderberry is widely used as both food and medicinal plant in Europe. It has been used to colour jams, jellies, juices and wines (Inami, Tamura, Kikuzaki, & Nakatani, 1996). Elderberries are used traditionally to make elderberry wine, liqueurs, marmalade, juice, tea, jam and pies. The berry infusion is consumed as diuretic, laxative, diaphoretic, and anti-inflammatory. The berries are used to treat flu and to stimulate the immune system. The elderberry juice or tea is suggested to drink for several times per day for well-being (Vlachojannis, Cameron, & Chrubasik, 2010). The aroma composition of elderberries are very important because of their uses as food stuff. The characteristic aroma of elderberries is due to ( <em>E </em>)-?-damascenone, dihydroedulan, ethyl-9-decenoate, 2-phenyl ethanol, phenylacetaldehyde and nonanal. The fruity-sweet odour in juice and other products comes from aliphatic esters such as ethyl 2-methylbutanoate, ethyl 3- methylbutanoate, methyl heptanoate, methyl octanoate, methyl nonanoate. Also, alcohols and aldehydes are frequently identified groups in elderberry chemistry. </p>In our study, we aimed to determine the volatile compounds in elderberries, which are used as a herbal tea ingredient in Turkey. Hence, the air-dried mature elderberries subjected to microdistillation were analysed by GC and GC-MS systems, simultaneously. The aldehydes were the main groups among the volatiles in elderberries}, number={1}, publisher={Badebio Biotechnology Ltd.}