PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACID DEGRADATION PRODUCT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce the subject product usable as natural flavor and fragrance components or the like by oxidatively and biologically degrading a plant biomass including an unsaturated fatty acid and an enzyme for the oxidative degradation in the presence of the additional unsaturated fatty acid. SOLUTION: This method for producing a fatty acid degradation product by an oxidative biological degradation of an unsaturated fatty acid comprises subjecting a plant biomass (e.g. pulverized leaves of violet) including the unsaturated fatty acid and an enzyme such as lipoxygenase and hydroperoxide lyase for oxidative degradation of the unsaturated fatty acid to an oxidative biodegradation in the presence of the additional unsaturated fatty acid (e.g. linolenic acid) to provide the objective fatty acid degradation product of natural flavor and fragrance components. The fatty acid degradation product is exemplified by an aliphatic 9C aldehyde (e.g. trans-2-cis-6-nonadienal) and a 9C alcohol (e.g. trans-2-cis-6-nonadinen-1-ol).