Only a few samples from corn popped in oil were subjected
to mass spectrometry; thus, most of the identifications were
made on isolates from corn popped in the microwave oven.
The microwave popped corn exhibited a typical popcorn
flavor, but lacked some of the tactile characteristics of the oil
popped corn. Based on several chromatogram comparisons,
the main difference in the volatile compound profile between
corn popped in oil and that popped by microwave energy was
the presence of larger quantities of 2-pentyl furan and the
short chain n-aldehydes in oil popped corn.