• Food Science of Animal Resources
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.229-238
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• 2013

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are added to different food products for a long time due to health beneficial effects on human host. LAB is applied in dairy products, such as yoghurt, cheese, and various fermented products, and also in non-dairy products, such as sausages. However, reaching the human gut alive as well as in a sufficient cell amount to exert positive health effects is still a big challenge, due to LAB sensitive character and vulnerability against harsh and detrimental conditions in human digestive system. Keeping physiological activity of sensitive LAB strains alive is for the formulation of novel food products with a probiotic health claim of utmost interest, thus microencapsulation has been applied and investigated as a promising technique for a good and reliable protection. Microencapsulation allows reduced cell injury or cell loss by retaining cells within the encapsulating membrane and can be enforced by spray-drying, emulsion, extrusion, and a range of other technologies in combination with an appropriate coating material, such as alginate, chitosan, and mixture of these two polymers. In this review, established and well-studied microencapsulation techniques with their favored coating materials, as well as the recent applications of microencapsulated LAB into dairy products will be discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.369-378
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• 1994

This study was surveyed by 319 male and 336 female college students in Seoul for food behavior and effect of Western food on food life. The results were summarized as follows; 1. The recognition of Korean folk food was higher in female than male students. 2. Eating type of college students appeared that they prefered to cooked rice at breakfast, lunch, and dinner because of a general food type of their family. 3. The favorite food items in college students showed fruits in female and meat in male. 4. Eating out type with family appeared mainly Korean food, because of their preference. 5. The 29% of college students visited fast food restaurants more than $1{\sim}2$ times per week. 6. In compared to Western food, the Korean food were favored by college students but cooking process of food were complicated. 7. The preference of Korean food against Western food was mostly higher in male than female. 8. The standard of food choice were taste and convenience of food. 9. Main factor of food habit change appeared convenience of buying easily. 10. The influence of the Western food in our food behavior were easy to buying but not fit our preference. 11. Opinion of students in order to keep Korean food were follows; Various food development, enlargement of consumption market, correct education about Korean food and change of people consciousness through consumer campaign.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.373-385
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between generations in awareness and acceptance of the commercial Korean traditional foods. the survey was carried out through questionnaire and the subjects were 316 middle school students and 299 parents of the other students in the same schools. Five middle schools in Chongju, Chungbuk were included. The results were as follow: 1) Students showed higher awareness than adults for cooked rices and much lower for gruels except pumpkin gruel. Difference between generations was existed in the acceptance for Yuk-gae-jang rice, plain rice, abalone porridge, pollack gruel and pinenut gruel. 2) Among soups, students were more aware of seaweed soup and rib-broth than adults and adults were more aware of bone broth than students. Students showed higher acceptance than adults for seaweed soup, Yuk-gae-jang, Gom-tang and rib broth, whereas adults showed higher acceptance than students for pollack soup. 3) Most of one bowl meals were highly known by both students and adults without any specific generation differences. Students liked the best sauteed rice cake and they like sauteed rice cake and Japchae(sauteed noodle with mixed vegetables) much more than adults. 4) There was no generation difference in the awareness of grilled and pan fried foods Grilled and pan fried foods were favored more by students than adults except grilled laver which was highly favored by both groups. 5) Generation difference was appeared in the awareness of Kimchi and salt fermented fishes, especially salt fermented fishes were much more known by adults than students. And also the acceptance of adults were higher than that of students for the most Kimchi and salt fermented fishes.

• Food Quality and Culture
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2008

Color is one of the most important attributes determining the purchase of food products by consumers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify consumer color preferences for songpyun, a traditional Korean rice cake, by a consumer acceptance test and using coated Pantone color chips. Color evaluation tools for the study were developed accordingly. From the results, the songpyun sample designated as product E was given the highest color acceptability score, and was 'slightly liked' (p<0.05). The color of product E was 'very pale red-purple'. All the evaluated pink-color songpyun products were based on this red-purple hue, however, they had differences in tone. The consumer panel favored a pale tone over a bright tone. The color concept for traditional songpyun within the pink color category was identified as 'very pale red-purple', using coated Pantone color chips. This result for the conceptual color preference was consistent with that of the consumer color acceptance test. Thus, color chips could be an effective tool when applied for color standardization in traditional foods production. From the overall results, it seems consumers are perceiving color trends and are willing to adapt to such changes in food applications.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.247-261
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• 2002

This study was designed to identify the purchasing practice on the bakery products by the female university students in Seoul and Kyunggi area. Total 262 questionnaires were used for the analysis among 285 responses. The results showed that 50.76% of the respondents bought the bakery products 1∼3 times a month mainly for supper or snacks. The most favored bakery products were bread, danguaja bbang, cake, pie and jori bbang, and there was a signigicant difference in the preference of bakery products by the type of dwelling (p<0.001). Students with non-food science major significantly preferred bakeries as light meals (p＜0.01). Students with food science major liked bread, jori bbang, cake and pie, but the non-food science majors liked bread, sweat red-bean bread and sandwich (p＜0.05). Depending upon the housing status and the major of the respondents, there was a signifcant difference in the purchase factor like nutrition, taste, size and sanitation of the store (p<0.05), while the purchasing frequency was not affected by those factors (p＜0.05). As to the question if there is a room for improvement, different housing status influenced significantly the respondents in citing the factors like business hours and service, and the shape of product and service(p＜0.05).

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.1257-1267
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• 2023

Although rational genetic engineering is nowadays the favored method for microbial strain improvement, building up mutant libraries based on directed evolution for improvement is still in many cases the better option. In this regard, the demand for precise and efficient screening methods for mutants with high performance has stimulated the development of biosensor-based high-throughput screening strategies. Genetically encoded biosensors provide powerful tools to couple the desired phenotype to a detectable signal, such as fluorescence and growth rate. Herein, we review recent advances in engineering several classes of biosensors and their applications in directed evolution. Furthermore, we compare and discuss the screening advantages and limitations of two-component biosensors, transcription-factor-based biosensors, and RNA-based biosensors. Engineering these biosensors has focused mainly on modifying the expression level or structure of the biosensor components to optimize the dynamic range, specificity, and detection range. Finally, the applications of biosensors in the evolution of proteins, metabolic pathways, and genome-scale metabolic networks are described. This review provides potential guidance in the design of biosensors and their applications in improving the bioproduction of microbial cell factories through directed evolution.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.298-305
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the eating habits and social behavior of preschool children. Six hundred twenty seven children ranging in age from 4 to 7 and their mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire assessing the children's eating habits and kindergarten teachers were asked to rate the social behavior of their preschool children. The eating habits of children positively correlated to those of their mothers, primarily in meal regularity, breakfast frequency, unbalanced meals, overeating, eating delivery food and food preferences. The results showed that 33% of preschool children always had unbalanced meals and 50% sometimes had them. Children who had ice cream, cake, carbonated drinks or cookies as snacks more often, tend to have meals irregularly because they favored sweets and were possibly induced to have unbalanced meals. Sixty five percent of the children were graded as good in terms of having healthy eating habits and had good social behavior. The results indicate that the eating habits of children are related to problem behavior, especially social withdrawal and anxiety. That is, children who have undesirable eating habits are likely to be anxious or socially withdrawn.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.315-322
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of herbs as a bread additive among 880 university students(436 male and 444 female). A sensory evaluation was also undertaken to investigate the taste and qualitative aspects of breads with various herb additives such as rosemary and mint. First, rosemary was the most popular(40.9%), followed by mint(28.5%) and lavender(10.9%). Second, sensory evaluation gave a positive response rate of 85.8% for the breads and cookies with added herbs. Third, in terms of using herbs for breads and cookies, respondents favored mint as the favorite with 58.1%, followed by rosemary with 57.9%. Fourth, in terms of sensory test, the highest preference was scored by the bread with 2% mint and 2% rosemary, and this ingrediebt mixture was confirmed as the best to make herb added breads.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.62-64
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• 1969

The experiment was carried out to investigate the adaptability of freezing process with thirteen strawberry varieties cultivated in Suwon, Pusan and Chunju area. Six of these were local varieties and the others were varieties imported from the United States of America. Each strawberries variety was analysed chemically to determine value of soluble solids, acidity (calculated as citric acid) and deepness of color. Frozen products were prepared by a general method adding sugar to $28^{\circ}\;Brix$. Local varieties Haengok, Bokuh, Keikwan and Daehak No. 1 were not suitable for making into frozen products because of excessive white color in their centers. Blakemore, an imported variety, was best as to color. Chemical analysis showed that imported varieties have higher acidity, and lower content of soluble solids. In a sensory test conducted by fifteen members of Agriculture and Fishery Development Corporation, deeper colors of strawberries did not receive a generally favorable response, and it was found that strawberry colors favored by the America were not liked by Korean well.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2000

An optional ingredient, Gatt(Brassica juncea) was adopted to improve the quality of Dongchimi during fermentation. The final weight percentage of Gatt in Dongchimi was adjusted to 0, 3, 5, 10, or 15%, per radish. Sensory and microbiological characteristics were determined during fermentation at 10$^{\circ}C$ for 45 days. The effect was varied depending on the amounts of Gatt, but Dongchimi fermented with 5% Gatt was most favored for color, flavor, taste, and overall acceptability in sensory evaluation. According to the quantitative descriptive analysis for the product, the liquid portion of Dongchimi steadily became clearer and less sour in proportion to the amount of added Gatt. The fermentation retarding action of Gatt at the initial stage of Dongchimi fermentation was clearly seen as above. However, the addition of Gatt at above 15% of Chinese radish was not desirable due to the accelerated fermentation at the later stage. The general changing patterns in typical characteristics of fermentation including microbial counts were comparable with each other depending on the treatments. And favorable Dongchimi could be prepared by fermenting with 5% Gatt at the given condition.