• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.528-532
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• 2004

We have studied physiological responses of mung bean sprout to the treatment of elicitors. Chemicals such as salicylic acid and methyl jasmonic acid are not only the intermediates found in plant defense system but also could affect plant secondary metabolism. We found that mild treatment of salicylic acid and acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin) increase isoflavone production dramatically in mung bean sprout which has very low level of isoflavones compared with soybean sprout. The isoflavone content in salicylic acid treated- and acetyl salicylic acid treated-mung bean sprout was about 2.3 and 2.2 times higher than that of control, respectively. However, the increasing patterns of isoflavone in cotyledon and hypocotyl and root were not identical. The major increase among isoflavone fractions in cotyledon was led by the increase in malonylglycitin and malonyldaidzin level. Whereas, the increase in hypocotyl and root was led by malonyldaidzin. Methyl jasmonic acid did not show statistically significant increase in mung bean sprout. With this result, we were able to propose the non-transgenic method, which can control the isoflavone production in germinating mung bean.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.224-228
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• 1989

This study was performed to investigate the content of residual pesticides in bean sprouts which are the very important vegetables to supply protein for traditional korean dishes. Experimental subjects included 541 cases of bean sprouts and 168 cases of germinating beans collected in the Seoul area from January in 1987 to February in 1938. In residual pesticides of subjects, topsin-M, vitavax and thiram were determined by high pressure liquid chromatography and captan was determined by gas chromatography. The detection rates of residual pesticides in the subjects were 19.4% in bean sprouts and 26.2% in germinating beans. The most common used pesticides in bean sprouts was topsin-M and detection rate was 16.2%. Captan and vitavax were also detected in about 3.5%, 2.8% of the experimental subjects respectively. But thiram was not detected in any samples. The mean value of topsin-M content was $21.32{\pm}4.82ppm$ and $1.68{\pm}0.14ppm$ in bean sprouts. The mean value of captan were $7.70{\pm}2.13ppm$ and $0.42{\pm}0.02ppm$ in germinating beans and bean sprouts, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nutrition Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.155-155
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• 2002

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.244-248
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• 2002

The effects of extracts from bean sprout (Glycine max), dropwort (Oenathe javanica) and radish (Raphanus sativus Var. hortensis for. acanthiformis) by solvent separation on alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity in vitro were investigated. The extracts were obtained from alcohol extracts of bean sprout, dropwort and radish, followed by solvent separation. Aqueous fractions facilitated much higher ADH activity than organic fractions. The facilitating rates of bean sprout, dropwort and radish in aqueous fractions were 125.75%, 104.94% and 87.63%, respectively. Basic fractions showed the highest facilitating rate with about 40%. Also other fractions showed below 20% facilitating rate and didn't show great difference from organic fractions. Phenolic fractions didn't show great effect on ADH activity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1544-1552
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• 2007

The present study evaluated the effects of isoflavone-rich bean sprout on the lipid metabolism in ethanol-treated rats. Fifty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into five groups: normal control, alcohol control, low soybean sprout+ethanol (low SS), high soybean sprout+ethanol (high SS) and isoflavone extract+ethanol (IE). They were fed experimental diets based on Lieber-DeCarli liquid diet for 40 days. Body weight, food intake and feed efficiency ratio (FER) of ethanol-treated groups were significantly suppressed compared with that of the normal control group. Among the ethanol-treated groups, high SS group showed in significant increase in the body weight, food intake and FER. Supplementation of isoflavone-rich soybean sprout powder or isoflavone extract significantly decreased plasma triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), atherogenic index (AI) and increased the ratio of HDL-cholesterol to TC. Supplements also significantly decreased total lipid, TG and TC in liver tissue compared with that of alcohol control. There was a significant decrease in hepatic lipid peroxidation products in IE group compared with other ethanol-treated groups. This results suggest that supplementation of isoflavone-rich bean sprout powder may exert beneficial effects on lipid metabolism in chronically alcohol-treated animals by improving lipid profiles in plasma and liver tissues.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.325-333
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• 2016

This study investigated the proximate compositions and sensory attributes of fresh and boiled soybean sprouts. The sensory attributes of cooked soybean sprouts (Kongnamulmuchim) were also assessed after boiling and seasoning. Proximate compositions were analyzed from the total sprout, cotyledon and hypocotyl without hair root. Soybean sprouts cultivated with four recommended soybean cultivars (Nokchae bean, Dawon bean, Seonam bean and Pungsannamul bean) in a lab and then used for analysis. Carbohydrate, protein, lipid and ash contents were lower, while moisture was lower, in the cotyledon than in the hypocotyl of fresh soybean sprouts, regardless of the bean type. Each soybean sprout showed different contents of chemical constituents in total sprout, cotyledon, and hypocotyl parts. Sensory attributes such as odor, flavor, and overall acceptability were evaluated. Each panels showed a response on a 9-point rating scale. The acceptability of fresh soybean sprouts was negatively correlated with beany and grassy tastes, but positively correlated with nutty and sweet tastes. The acceptability of boiled soybean sprouts was negatively correlated with beany and grassy flavors, and positively correlated with nutty odor and flavor. In addition, acceptability of cooked soybean sprouts (Kongnamulmuchim) was positively correlated with nutty and sweet flavors. The beany and grassy flavors limited acceptability of fresh soybean sprouts, whereas the prominence of nutty flavor might contribute to acceptance of boiled and cooked soybean sprouts.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2017

To evaluate performance of the experimental pick-up type pulse crop harvester for harvesting sprout bean, its pick-up and discharging grain loss ratios, grain quality such as whole grain ratio, damaged grain ratio, unthreshed grain, and foreign material ratio in grain tank, germination rate of threshed grain, and theoretical field capacity of the harvester were analyzed according to engine speeds of 2000, 2400 and 2800 rpm and harvesting speeds of 0.6, 1.0 and 1.4 m/s. It is considered that the harvester showed optimum performance at the engine speed of 2800 rpm and the harvesting speed of 1.0 m/s, and then average pick-up grain loss ratio of 2.7%, discharging grain loss ratio of 0.5%, whole grain ratio of 99.3%, damaged grain ratio of 0.2%, unthreshed grain ratio of 0.0%, foreign material ratio of 0.2%, and germination rate at 8 days after seeding of 72.8% were shown. It is considered that the harvester has lower grain loss and higher grain quality than the imported bean combines. And also as it could harvest 3 rows of cut and dried sprout bean crop width of which was about 2 m, its effective field capacity was estimated for about 50 a/h.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.143-152
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• 1994

To investigate the changes of taste perception by aging, sixty one healthy elderly people and sixty five young adults were participated in the study. Most preferred levels of salt sour and sweet taste were chosen in bean sprout soup radish salad and yaksing respectively. Threshold levels of each taste were also chosen in NaCl solution for salt taste in citric acid solution for sour taste and in sucrose solution for salt taste, in citric acid solution for sour taste and in sucrose solution for sweet taste. The results are as follow: 1.Most preferred salt concentration in bean sprout soup was significantly higher in the elderly than in the young adults(p$\leq$0.001). There was no difference in sour taste preference of radish salad in both age groups. Most preferred sweetness in yacksig was significantly higher in both elderly men and women(p$\leq$0.001) 2. Threshold levels of salt and sweet taste were significantly higher in the elderly (p$\leq$0.001) However there was no difference in threshold level of sour taste in both age groups.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 1982

The changes of various lipid content and fatty acids composition of mung-bean sprout during 6 days. The results are summarized as follows 1) The total lipid contents of mung-bean sprouts are generally decreased during growing. 2) On T.L.C. gram, triglyceride contents are decreased and free fatty acids and sterol are increased with time. 3) The ratio of unsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids U/S are increased by six times after 4 days of mung-bean germination. 4) The contents of palmitic acid as main fatty acid in the mangbean but oleid, linoleic acid were increased after 2 days, 4 days, 6 days. 5) Total lipids from mung-bean sprouts contained fatty acid in order of linoleic acid, oleic acid. 6) The content of essential fatty acid are rich in 4 days.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.660-665
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• 2003

Effect of freezing on the hydration rate and growth characteristics of bean sprout of two domestic cultivars of soybean, Eunha beans and Taegwang beans, was investigated. Freezing of the soybeans at $-80^{\circ}C$ affected characteristics of the hydration and growth of soybean sprout of the beans. Hydration rate of the frozen beans depended on the hydration temperature. It decreased up to 50% at lower than $60^{\circ}C$ of hydration temperature, but it did not decrease at higher than $60^{\circ}C$. Activation energies of frozen Eunha and Taegwang beans were 39.79 and 39.25 kJ/mol, respectively. Kinetic compensation effect between activation energy values and the pre-exponential factor for the hydration of soybeans with or without freezing was observed. Germination rate and thickness of the bean sprout increased by freezing, however, yield and weight were not affected by freezing.