“…Moreover, as the higher methyl esterified regions in pectin molecule can exert more hydrophobic characteristics than non-esterified regions, the aroma compounds with hydrophobic characteristics can be located in the esterified regions within the studied system (Kim, Kim, Yoo, & Kim, 2010). This could explain the high retention of ethyl octanoate, ethyl decanoate, ethyl dodecanoate and linalool, which have different functional groups but similar hydrophobicity.…”