Flavorful Methyketones derive from fatty acid
Methyketones (2-alkanones), which from medium-length fatty acids , confer strong cheese associated flavors and are the basic for flavor development in cheese such as Roquefort, Camembert , and Stilton. These methyketones from when the mold used to ripen such cheese degrade medium-chain length fatty acids, using B-oxidation enzymes to generate Methyketones that are one carbon shorter than their respective precursors fatty acids (รูป 4). The most prominent
Methyketones include 2-pentanone, 2- heptanone, 2-nonanone, and 2-undercanone arising from fatty acids with 6- to 12-carbon chain lengths.