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Furfuraldehyde

noun
1.
A liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent.  Synonym: furfural.






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... from the crude fiber, probably from the hemi-cellulose of the thick endosperm cells. Sayre[154] makes the most plausible proposal regarding the origin of caffeol. He considers the roasting of coffee as a destructive distillation process, summarizing the results, briefly, as the production of furfuraldehyde from the carbohydrates, acrolein from the fats, catechol and pyrogallol from the tannins, and ammonia, amins, and pyrrols from the proteins. The products of roasting inter-react to produce many compounds of varying ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers



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