• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.61-65
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• 1999

This study was carried out to investigate change in the components according to drying methods of jujube. Raw jujube was dried with five methods such as sun-drying, hot-air drying after pretreated with sunlight, blanching, microwave treatment, respectively. The contents of soluble sugar and protein in sun-dried jujube were higher than those of other drying methods. The free sugars of dried jujube were consisted of sucrose, glucose and fructose. And the contents of free sugar was not different by drying methods. The major organic acids of dried jujube were oxalic acid, citric acid and malic acid. The contents of glutamic acid, glycine and alanine were higher than those of other amino acids, and the content of each amino acid was not different by drying methods.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.238-244
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• 2001

The study was performed to investigate the changes of components and volatiles in citrus sudachi juice heated at 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and $90^{\circ}C$. Total acidity, $^{\circ}Brix$, pH, organic acids, free amino acids, vitamin C, naringin, hesperidine, neohesperidin and volatiles were analyzed in fresh and heated citrus sudachi juices. The major organic acids were citric, malic and oxalic acids and their total contents were 5.27-5.48%. Citric acid content exceeded 92%, malic and oxalic acids were 3.6 and 3.2% in total orgainc acids. The organic acids decreased as heating temperature increased, but the their decreasing contents were 0.3% of total oraganic acids. Sixteen kinds of free amino acids presented in citrus sudachi juice. Major free amino acids were alanine, threonine, proline, aspargine, aspartic acid, serine, tyrosine, and trytophane and minor free amino acids were arginine, valine, glycine, lisoluecine, leucine and histidine. Free amino acids contents decreased as heating temperature increased. Vitamin C contents also decreased from 21.3 mg% to 17.3 mg% as heating temperature increased. Naringin, hesperidine and neohesperidin also slightly decreased from 304 mg% to 297.0 mg% as heating temperature increased. In the fresh and heated juices, a total of 50 volatiles were separated, of which 31 were identified. Limonene dominated in volatiles, followed by ${\gamma}-terpinene,\;{\alpha}-phellandrene$, myrcene and ${\alpha}-pinene$. ${\alpha}-Thujene$ presented in the fresh jucie but did not present in the heated juice above $50^{\circ}C$. However, ${\alpha}-Terpinolene$, terpinene-1-ol, ${\beta}-terpineol$, $cis-{\beta}-terpineol$, ${\alpha}-muurolene$, bicyclo(3.2.0)hept-6-ene, and mentha-1.4.8-triene did not presented in the fresh jucie but newly formed in the juice heated at $90^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1095-1103
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• 1996

In order to minimize the deterioration of dried apple quality, changes of free sugar content, organic acid and ascorbic and during osmotic dehydration with sucrose at various temperature, concentration and immersion time were investigated in this study, total sugar increased as the temperature, concentration and immersion time were increased. Sucrose showed the largest change in content while fructose and glucose showed no and small changes, respectively. Large amounts of malic and fumaric acids, and small amounts of oxalic, citric, maleic and succinic acids were detected. Organic acids were high at low temperature treatment, and became higher with increasing concentration. Loss of ascorbic acid was small at the low temperature and high concentration. Effect of immersion time was negligible. Changes of free sugar, and organic and ascorbic acid followed the first-order and second-order reaction rate equations, respectively. Arrhenius equation was applied to determine the effect of temperature on reaction rate constants with high $r^2$. To predict the changes of quality, a model was established by using the optimum functions of temperature, concentration and immersion time. The model had high $r^2$ value for the quality changes during drying.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.152-156
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• 1996

Taste components of traditional kochujang from 55 households were investigated. The major free sugars in traditional kochujang (fermented hot pepper-soybean paste) were glucose $(8.21{\pm}5.62%)$ and maltose $(6.95{\pm}7.27%)$ and the minors were fructose $(1.88{\pm}1.27%)$ and sucrose $(1.05{\pm}1.21%)$. Succinic $(901.83{\pm}826.23\;mg%)$, citric $(484.16{\pm}242.89\;mg%)$ and lactic $(381.63{\pm}367.88\;mg%)$ acids in traditional kochujang were found in large amounts and acetic, oxalic, and formic acids in smaller amounts. The traditional kochujang contained large amounts of proline $(10.66{\pm}6.27\;mg%)$, glutamic acid $(9.27{\pm}10.97\;mg%)$, aspartic acid $(9.14{\pm}5.84\;mg%)$, lysine $(6.19{\pm}6.66\;mg%)$, and serine $(5.72{\pm}3.79\;mg%)$, and the total free amino acid content was 64.35mg%. Among the nucleotides and their related compounds in traditional kochujang, CMP $(42.90{\pm}28.16\;mg%)$ were the most abundant major compounds and hypoxanthine $(6.86{\pm}3.45\;mg%)$, IMP $(5.59{\pm}5.84\;mg%)$, inosine $(4.58{\pm}6.91\;mg%)$ and GMP$(3.36{\pm}3.93\;mg%)$ were found in smaller amounts, and AMP and UMP were also found in minor.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.616-624
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• 2010

We compared the physicochemical properties of, and volatile components in various commercial fruit vinegars (made from apples, grapes, and persimmons). Total acidity was highest in grape vinegars. Significant between-sample differences were evident in total and reducing sugar contents. Brownness, turbidity, and overall color difference (the ${\Delta}E$ value) were highest in persimmon vinegars. Free sugars were composed mainly of fructose, glucose, sucrose, and maltose. Major organic acids were present in the (descending abundance) order acetic acid, oxalic acid, citric acid, malic acid, and succinic acid, among-samples difference were negligible. Nine-essential free amino acids were detected in nine types of grape and persimmon vinegars, and in six varieties of apple vinegar. Among 17 types of volatile compounds identified in apple vinegars, 12 in grape vinegars, and 33 in persimmon vinegars, the main volatile components were acetic acid, ethyl acetate, isoamyl acetate, isovaleric acid, isoamyl alcohol, propanoic acid and phenethyl acetate. Volatile chemicals in commercial fruit vinegars were effectively analyzed using a SAW e-nose.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 1995

Changes in the contents of sugar, organic acid, free amino acid and uncleic acid-related compounds of leaf mustard-Kimchi during fermentation at 5~7$^{\circ}C$ were investigated. The leaf mustard-Kimchi was formulated with 4kg leaf mustard, 120g garlic, 80g ginger, 540ml salted anchovies, 1kg green onion, 200g red pepper powder, 200g ground red pepper, 60g whole sesame and 600ml glutinous rice paste. Changes in pH and acidity were relatively slow. Major free sugars were glucose(0.13%) and maltose(0.42%), and residual sugars(0.03-0.04%) were also detected after 32 days of fermentation. Major free amino acids containing more than 26.5mg% were proline, glutamic acid, alanine and histidine. Contents of total free amino acids increased from 244.8 to 397.2mg% by 24 days of fermentation. Of non-volatile organic acid, lactic acid was the most abundant(119.3mg%), and its content increased markedly after 10 days of fermentation. Other organic acids(below 53.1mg%) observed were malic, oxalic and citric acid. Contents of nucleic acid-related compounds were high in the order of hypoxanthine(22.8mg%), IMP(8.3mg%) and GMP(6.9mg%). Hypoxanthine content increased by 10 days(27.3mg%) and decreased thereafter, while the others decreased gradually during the overall period of fermentation.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.333-338
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• 2003

pH values in all samples were in the range of 5.04 to 5.32. pH of kanjang prepared with normal pressure(NPK) was higher than that of kanjang prepared with high pressure(HPK) and kanjang prepared with steam(SPK). Titratable acidity(TA) in all samples were found to be 4.26～7.72 mL. TA in HPK(5.99～6.96 mL) was lower than that in SPK(4.26～5.61 mL) and NPK(7.32 mL). Reducing sugar(RS) contents in all samples were in the range of 25.18 to 194.81 mg％. RS contents of HPK and SPK were a similar pattern and were higher than that of NPK. Major free sugars(FS) were glucose, fructose and xylose. In total FS, SPK was higher than that of NPK and HPK. Major organic acids(OA) were succinic acid, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, malic acid and citric acid. In total OA contents, SPK(40.38～76.96 mg％) was higher than that of NPK(55.85 mg％)and HPK(27.78～34.21mg％). OA contents in HPK and SPK were decreased slightly according to the heating time of whole black bean. The highest percentage of fatty acid (FA) in all samples was palmitic acid(33.28～43.51 ％ as area ％ of GC chromatogram), followed in a decreasing order by stearic acid(14.15～19.16％) and myristic acid(5.93～19.14％). The composition ratios of three FA to total FA ranged from 55.97 to 72.85＆. In all samples, there was myristic acid that was not contained in raw soybean.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.285-287
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• 1985

To investigate effective constituents of the many taste components in ordinary Korean soy sauce, we analyzed free amino acids, organic acids, free sugars and saline as taste components in ordinary Korean soy sauce, and determined sensory score of the ordinary Korean soy sauce taste with 45 persons of the trained pannels. The relationships between original data transformed with variables and sensory score of the ordinary Korean soy sauce were analyzed by stepwise multiple regression analysis. Eighty five percents of the ordinary Korean soy sauce taste is affected by twenty one kinds (Isoleucine, Leucine, Valine, NaCl, Lactic acid, Alanine, Phenylalanine, Tartaric acid, Sugar(\ulcorner), Proline, Malic acid, Glycine, Tryptophan, Arginine, Glutaric acid, Maltose, Histidine, Glucose, Fructose and Serine) of the taste components by stepwise multiple regression analysis of original data. Eighty one percents of the ordinary Korean soy sance taste is affected by sixteen kinds (Lactic acid, NaCl, Fumaric.Succinic acid, Tyrosine, Tartaric acid, Glycine, Malonic acid, Malic acid, Tryptophan, Glutaric acid, Methionine, Histidine, Cysteine, Maltose, Fructose and (Glutamic acid) of the taste components by stepwise multiple frgression analysis of original data transformed with square root. Eighty five percents of the ordinary Korean soy sauce taste is affected by nineteen kinds (Fumaric.Succinic acid, Lactic acid, Phenylalanine, NaCl, Tyrosine, Sugar(\ulcorner), Tartaric acid, Leucine, Glutaric acid, Methionine, Glycine, Tryptophan, Histidine, Proline, Cysteine, Glutamic acid, Maltose, Threonine and Oxalic acid) of the taste components by stepwise multiple regression analysis of original data transformed with logarithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1425-1430
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• 2007

This study investigated alcohol and acetic acid fermentation conditions for the quality control of pomegranate vinegar In the alcohol fermentation process, alcohol content was the highest at a pomegranate juice concentration of $16^{\circ}Brix$, but suitable to fruit vinegar standards at a concentration of $12^{\circ}Brix$. In the concentrated pomegranate juice alcohol fermentation free sugars, fructose and glucose were detected at the beginning of fermentation; at day 4 of fermentation only glucose was detected and decreased as time passed. Organic acids were also detected, including oxalic, lactic, acetic, and citric acid, and they did not change greatly during the alcohol fermentation process. In the acetic acid fermentation process, total acidity increased from 1.56% to 5.54%, where acetic acid increased; however, oxalic, lactic, and citric acids changed only slightly. In conclusion, pomegranate vinegar can undergo alcohol and acetic acid fermentation processes using concentrated pomegranate juice of $12^{\circ}Brix$.

• Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 2022

Objectives: In this study, we investigated physicochemical characteristics and antioxidant activity of Artemisia argyi H. fermented with lactic acid bacteria. Methods: The A. argyi water extract was fermented using lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi at 30℃ for 96 h. To evaluate the physicochemical characteristics, we investigated pH, total acidity, viable cells, free sugars, free organic acids, and free amino acids contents during fermentation. In addition, we examined antioxidant activity of fermented Artemisia argyi H. by measurement of 2,2-diphenyl-1-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)-hydrazinyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azubi-bus-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS⁺) scavenging activities. Results: During fermentation time, pH of fermented A. argyi was decreased from 4.57 to 3.22, and total acidity was increased from 0.39% to 1.63%. The number of lactic acid bacteria fermented A. argyi was increased from 1.28×10⁷ CFU/ml to 3.75×10⁸ CFU/ml during fermentation time. The free sugars of fermented A. argyi were confirmed glucose and sucrose. In addition, the organic acid content of fermented A. argyi was the highest in oxalic acid and lactic acid. In the composition of free amino acids, content of ornithine increased from 4.4 mg/100 g to 18.8 mg/100 g compared with non-fermented A. argyi. Furthermore, DPPH and ABTS⁺ radical scavenging activities of fermented A. argyi increased in a dose-dependent manner. Conclusions: In conclusion, our data suggest that lactic acid fermentation of A. argyi could be used as a functional food for antioxidants.