Introduction to Volatile Compounds in Food

The VCF database contains information on published volatile compounds which have been found in natural (processed) food products.
The information is continually updated.

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News

23 December 2022

Version VCF16.10 released

We have expanded the content of the database by 10 percent and added as many as 322 new products (especially many new fish and meat varieties). In addition, we updated more than 150 existing products. All based on 196 new literature references. We also added more than 500 new threshold values and 716 new retention indices. read more

23 December 2022

What is new in version VCF16.10

This update to VCF Online's expanded database has been a while in coming, but now we have expanded the contents of the database by 10 percent. We have added as many as 322 new products (especially many new wines, spices, fruits, and fish and meat varieties). This brings the total number of products in the database to 1445.

We also … read more

1 February 2022

Version VCF16.9 released

Version VCF16.9 is now published. We added data of 30 new products and we implemented GRAS 30. See Overview of VCF Releases

5 February 2021

Version VCF16.8 released

Version VCF16.8 is now published. We added data of 90 new products and we implemented GRAS 29. See Overview of VCF Releases

9 April 2020

Version VCF16.7 released

Version VCF16.7 is now published. We added a lot of data of new productsand we show Flavour Threshold values together with other compound data. See Overview of VCF Releases

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