Limited information in available about the volatile components of raw chicken meat; therefore the
Current study was aimed at chicken meat volatiles. In addition, odour activity values (OAV) were used to evaluate potent volatile components to the chicken meat. Simultaneous and extraction with dichloromethane was used to obtain volatile compounds were analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. A total of 33 compounds were identified and quantified in the sample. Volatile acids, esters and alcohols were the dominant volatile in the chicken breast meat. On the basis of PAV , the most important aroma compounds identified in the extract were hexanal and and (E) -2-heptenal, which were described as the green-fresh odour and green-cheesy-fatty odour, respectively.