• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.155-163
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• 2017

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The commercial foodservice industry in Korea has shown rapid growth recently. This study examined Korean adults' consumption of commercially-prepared meals based on where the food was prepared. SUBJECTS/METHODS: Data from a 24-hour dietary recall of the 2001 and 2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys were analyzed. A total of 10,539 subjects (n = 6,152 in 2001; n = 4,387 in 2011) aged 19-64 years were included for analysis. Commercially-prepared meals were classified into four food source groups based on where the food was prepared: Korean restaurants, Chinese/Western/Japanese restaurants, fast-food restaurants, and retail stores. Subjects' energy intake, including the amount and proportion of calories, was examined for each food source. The analysis was also conducted by gender for age-stratified groups: 19-29, 30-49, and 50-64 years old. RESULTS: Korean adults' energy intake from commercially-prepared meals increased in the amount of calories (551 kcal to 635 kcal, P < 0.01), but not in the proportion of daily calories (27% to 28%) from 2001 to 2011. The most frequent food source of commercially-prepared meals was Korean restaurants in both years. The amount and proportion of calories from retail stores increased from 83 kcal to 143 kcal (P < 0.001) and from 4% to 7% (P < 0.001), respectively, during the same period. Males aged 30-49 years (34%) and females aged 19-29 years (35%) consumed the highest proportion of daily calories from commercially-prepared meals in 2011. CONCLUSIONS: Korean adults consumed about one-fourth of their energy intake from commercially-prepared meals. In particular, males aged 30-49 years and females aged 19-29 years consumed more than one-third of their energy intake from commercially-prepared meals. Korean restaurants played a significant role in Korean adults' energy intake. Retail stores increased influence on Korean adults' energy intake. These results could be useful for developing health promotion policies and programs.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 1988

The results obtained by survey on 599 respondents of different age groups for preference of 84 prepared foods were subjected to statistical principal component analysis, factor analysis, analysis of variance, scheffe verification, and discriminant analysis so as to find a structure of preference for foods. The results may be summarized as follows: 1. The results of the factor analysis indicate that 84 prepared food items may be classified into 3 groups and that by knowing an indvidual's preference to one prepared food, one can presume his preference to the others in the same group without carrying out actual test. 2. The results from an analysis of variance showed that most of primary school children extremely liked snacks, seniors liked Korean cooking, primary school children and collegians had weaknesses for western cookings while kindergarden children and adults over 50 years old disliked them.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.123-137
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• 2000

Korea market of food service industry has been increased greatly since early 90's with the emergence of professional catering business and the expansion of school food service. Because of the characteristics of food service establishment, feeding many people at a time, there is always a high potential of foodborne outbreak which requires special sanitary management to prevent. Currently, many catering businesses are interested in HACCP(Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points), a new sanitary management system, and are trying to develop HACCP Plans for their food service establishment. Microbiological hazard analysis, a most important step for developing HACCP Plan, provides also basic information for evaluating sanitary aspect of prepared foods and their materials. There are not extensive data of microbiological hazard analysis for food service operations, especially for prepared foods and raw materials, which are helpful for developing a HACCP Plan. The extensive microbiological hazard analyses for 65 prepared foods and 51 raw materials selected from a couple of food service establishment were performed in this research. These results will provide useful information to determine hazards for developing a HACCP plan, and also to understand sanitary status for prepared foods and raw materials in food service establishment.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.369-375
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• 1994

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of beany flavor elimination and the acceptability of tofu prepared with blanched soybean. The results were as follows: 1. The content and me total protein of soymilk prepared with blanched soybean were decreased comparing with those of soymilk prepared with raw soybean. But the yield of tofu was not changed by blanching the soybean. 2. The beany flavor(hexanal, 1-hexanol, and pentanoI) was decreased but the toasted nutty flavor(ethanol and propanol) were increased by blanching the soybean. 3. By heating of soymilk, most of volatile compounds was disappeared, but ethanol, hexanal and 1-hexanol were remained. The hexanal content of tofu prepared with raw soybean was eleven times higher than that of tofu prepared with blanched soybean. 4. The color of tofu prepared with blanched soybean was more yellower than that of control group. At the lower temperature of blending, the texture of tofu was more smooth and elastic. 5. The tofu prepared with blanched soybean was more tasteful.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.495-504
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• 2002

With the rapid growth of high-school food service in a short period as a result of the extensive implementation of school service, contract food service as well as the use of pre-prepared food ingredients has been increased. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the time required in various phases of product flow, temperature, pH, Aw, microbiological quality of foods served in high school in Seoul area and to analyze the hazardous factors to find out efficient control methods. Comparison was made between the schools using prepared food and raw materials in terms of microbiological quality. However, no distinguishable difference in the quality of foods was found between them. Therefore, the use of prepared food seemed no impose more hazard than using raw materials.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.506-515
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• 2004

This study was carried on the quality characteristics of cake prepared with Co(com oil) containing MCT(medium chain triglycerides), which is used as a fat substitute. In tile cake prepared with MCT-CO containing $10{\sim}30%$ MCT, the appearance and the degree of gelatinization were similar to those of cake prepared with NS-CO(non-substituted corn ell) Cake batter prepared with MCT-CO showed higher specific gravity and consistency than those of cake prepared with NS-CO and increased by increasing MCT contents. The baking loss of cake prepared with MCT-CO was more than that of cake prepared with NS-CO and increased by increasing MCT contents as well. The rheological properties of cake represented significant different by MCT substitution ratio(p<0.05). Gumminess, hardness and chewiness of cake prepared with MCT-CO containing $20{\sim}30%$ MCT were about 2 times higher than those of cake prepared with NS-CO, while springiness and cohesiveness showed similar pattern between the cake prepared with MCT-CO or NS-CO. In sensory evaluation, appearance. color and flavor of cake prepared with CO substituted by MCT up to 100% were better assessed and the taste was better in range of 30% MCT-CO but the texture was less accepted than that of cake prepared with NS-CO.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.259-262
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• 1997

The microstructures of soybean milk curds, prepared by different coagulation methods, were observed by the scaning electron microscope. Th curd coagulated by theaddition of bacerial soybean mil clotting enzyme showed little textural changes and gave smoother gel than those prepared either by lactic acid fermentation using Streptococcus thermophilus or by the addition of CaSO$_4$. The curds obtained by lactic acid fermentation and by the addition of inorganic salt exhibited three dimensional network structure which indicated harder gel than that prepared by soybean mil clotting enzyme.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.841-849
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• 2006

This study compared the nutritional quality of Korean adults's consumption of lunch prepared at home, commercial places, and institutions. The one day food intake data collected via 24-hour recall in the 2001 National Health and Nutrition Survey were analyzed. Individuals with 19-64 years of age were selected (n = 5,756). Sampling weights in the Survey were used to generate nationally representative estimates. Lunch was categorized into three groups according to the place where the lunch was prepared. home, commercial places, and institutions such as schools and work places. Comparison among the three groups was made for 19-39 years old men (n = 1,387) and women (n =1,572) and 40-64 years old men (n = 1,364) and women (1,433), respectively. The lunch prepared away from home contained more calories. The lunch prepared commercially was higher in calories percentages from fat than that prepared either at home or at institutions. Across the age and gender groups, lunch prepared at home contribute a high level of sodium intake. Among individuals with 40-64 years of age, but not those with 19-39 years of age, lunch prepared commercially was as sodium dense as that prepared at home. Among individuals with 19-39 years of age, the sodium density of lunch prepared commercially was about the same as that prepared at institutional food service of which the menus were planned by dieticians. Such differences in nutritional quality among meals prepared at home, commercial places, and institutions should be considered and applied for the content development of nutrition education and policy.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.157-161
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• 2009

Resveratrol-loaded poly($\varepsilon$-caprolactone) (PCL) nanoparticles were prepared by oil in water (O/W) emulsion solvent evaporation method. The morphology of the nanoparticles was evaluated using atomic force microscope (AFM), in which well-shaped and rigid nanoparticles were prepared. The mean particle size of nanoparticles prepared using only dichloromethane (DCM) ($523.5{\pm}36.7\;nm$) was larger than that prepared with a mixture of DCM and either ethanol (EtOH) ($494.5{\pm}29.2\;nm$) or acetone ($493.5{\pm}6.9\;nm$). The encapsulation efficiency of nanoparticles prepared only with DCM as dispersed phase ($78.3{\pm}7.7%$) was the highest of those prepared with solvent mixtures. An increase in the molecular weight of PCL led to an increase in encapsulation efficiency (from $78.3{\pm}7.7$ to $91.4{\pm}3.2%$). Pluronic F-127 produced the smallest mean size ($523.5{\pm}36.7\;nm$) with the narrowest particle size distribution. These results show that dispersed phase, molecular weight of wall materials, emulsion stabilizer could be important factors to affect the properties of nanoparticles.

• Food Science of Animal Resources
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

In this study, we evaluated the physicochemical and sensorial properties of frozen Hanwoo beef patties prepared from prerigor and post-rigor muscle with soybean sauce or sodium chloride. The pH of the soybean sauce treatments was lower than the sodium chloride treatments (p<0.05); however, the Hanwoo patty prepared from pre-rigor muscle with soybean sauce had a lower cooking loss and smaller diameter than the Hanwoo patty prepared under the same conditions from post-rigor muscle (p<0.05). The addition of the soybean sauce inhibited lipid oxidation due to the antioxidative materials in soybean sauce such as melanoidin. The hardness of patties prepared from pre-rigor treatment was lower relative to those prepared from post-rigor muscle (p<0.05); however, there was no significant difference between springiness, cohesiveness, and chewiness (p>0.05). In the sensory evaluation, patties prepared from pre-rigor muscle with soybean sauce had a significantly high score in all traits (p<0.05); thus, pre-rigor muscle with soybean had the highest overall acceptability. Furthermore, the addition of soybean sauce to pre-rigor muscle produced similar effects as those observed for the addition of sodium chloride in regards to psychochemical properties. Moreover, meat products produced from pre-rigor muscle will have better antioxidative and sensorial properties.