• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.362-368
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• 2002

Physicochemical properties of garlic bulb during storage with different cutting treatments were estimated. Garlic harvested in early June was used in this experiments. Various physicochemical factors of garlic bulb such as weight loss rate, rotten rate, sprouting rate, moisture content, reducing sugar content and total pyruvate content were investigated. Bulbs with roots, bulb without roots and bulb with stem length of l cm, 3 cm, 5 cm were stored at 2$\^{C}$ for eight months. The weight loss increased sharply after 8 months for all treatments. Weight loss occurred most severely in treated garlics with bulbs with 5 cm stem length and progressed steadily at low rates in bulbs with 1 cm stem length. Also, less decay and internal sprouting were observed in bulbs with 1 cm stem length. Cutting treatments of roots were not significant for internal sprouting. Incidence of other chemical properties of bulbs, contents of total sugar, reducing sugar and pyruvic acid were not significant statistically. Moisture contents of treated garlics was remarkably reduced in longer leaving stems. As a result, top-clipped leaving stems fur long, seemed to have a beneficial effect on physicochemical properties of garlic stored at 2$\^{C}$ for 8 months possibly due to reduced weight loss, rotten decaying and sprouting rates. Utilization of such results in the processing industry can be effective.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.140-145
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• 2017

Pinus koraiensis cone (PKC) extract was prepared by mixing PKC with sugar at a weight ratio of 1:1 and then removing PKC after incubating the mixture at room temperature for 100 days. The resulting PKC extract was examined for its physicochemical properties and antioxidant activities using Prunus mume fruit extract, which is similar to PKC extract in terms of preparation procedure and product usage, as a control. PKC extract consisted mainly of moisture (21.76%) and sugar (70.03%), leading to high viscosity. PKC extract was apparently yellowish, and therefore its browning index and color intensity were appreciably lower than the control (P=0.0000), indicating that Maillard reaction was not facilitated during fermentation. Compared with the control, PKC extract was not appreciably different in terms of total flavonoid content, whereas its organic acid content and total reducing capacity were significantly lower. Nevertheless, its metal-chelating activity and DPPH radical scavenging activity were comparable to those of the control. In addition, SOD-like activity of PKC extract was 2-fold higher than that of 6.6 mM quercetin, which had a higher total flavonoid content than PKC extract. This indicates that PKC extract contains certain flavonoids with higher antioxidant activities than quercetin. The results show that PKC extract provides antioxidant activity as well as characteristically different sensory properties due to its higher sugar and lower organic acid contents compared with Prunus mume fruit extract.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 1993

To furnish basic data for the utilization of leaf mustard as a raw material of salted and fermented vegetable food, major chemical compositions of Dolsan Leaf Mustard (DLM) were investigated. The moisture and ash contents of DLM were 87.5% and 1.4%, respectively. Compared with other Korean traditional or Japanese leaf mustard, DIM contained more crude protein (3.8%) but less crude fat (0.3%) and crude fiber (1.3%). As an alkali food, leaf and leat stalk had pH of 5.7 and 5.8, titratable acidity of 687 and 318mg/100g and alkalinity of 2.5 and 5.2, respectively. The major free sugar in DLM was glucose and fructose was also detected in a small amount. The contents of total and reducing sugar in leaf and leaf stalk were 574, 352, 820 and 538mg%, respectively. Total amino acid contents of leaf and leaf stalk were 8.0 and 2.5% on wet basis. Although the amino acid compositions of leaf and leaf stalk were different each other, glutamic acid and proline were the major amino acids in both of the leaf and leaf stalk. Significantly higher amount (ca.10.3-fold) of free amino acid was present in leaf (3074mg%) than in leaf stalk (298mg%). Glutamic acid and aspartic acid were the major free amino acids and essential amino acid contents in leaf and leaf stalk were 869 and 68mg% being 22.9 and 28.3% of total free amino acids.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.534-539
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• 2003

This study was conducted to analyze components of the fruit of Etaeagnus multiflora to form a part of studies on the nutritional and functional materials of fruits and leaves of E. multiflora, and the development of a functional food. The moisture content of the fruit was 82.34%, and the content of carbohydrate, crude protein, lipid and ash was 15.4, 1.29, 0.79 and 0.54%, respectively. The pH of the fruit extract was 3.29, acidity 0.64%, and brix 14.0. Total sugar was contained 1.03/100g and reducing sugar was 3.27 g/100g. The content of soluble protein was 0.48 g/100g, and polyphenol was 0.28 g/100g. The glucose and fructose as a free sugar was 401.96 and 370.34 mg/100g, and account for a great portion of the components. Total content of free sugary was 0 mg/100g. The total amount of organic acid was 294.44 mg/100g, and the content of citric acid was 265.01 mg/100g, malic acid 18.16 mg/100g, and succinic acid 8.50 mg/100g. In the free amino acid, the concentration of serine was the highest (13.93mg/100g), and alanine, aspartic acid, cystine and methionine were high in the above order. The content of ascorbic acid was 131.35 mg/100g and that of dehydroascorbic acid was 431.37 mg/100g. Potassium, magnesium and sodium content were 627.44, 140.28, and 56.70 mg/100g, respectively.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.158-161
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• 2003

The six-year old fresh ginseng harvested at earlier October was stored for 10 weeks in the rendition of 4$^{\circ}C$${\pm}$1$^{\circ}C$ and RH 87∼92%, and the sugar content and the change of color was investigated in an interval of one week by taking sample of it after processed it to red ginseng. The total sugar content was 62.71% before it was stored and was a little reduced to 54.58% after 10 weeks of storage. The reducing sugar content was 11.69% before it was stored and was a little reduced to 9.92% after 7 weeks of storage. For the free sugars, the content of fructose was 0.47% before storage and gradually increased to 4.70% after 10 weeks of storage, and the contents of glucose and sucrose were gradually decreased after they have their peak value of 2.31% and 25.89% at five and three weeks of storage. The content of maltose was 6.62% before storage and it gradually reduced to 1.37％ after 10 weeks of storage. The color intensity was generally increased with the storage time, and the total rotor value(ΔE) has its peak value of 8.89 after 9 weeks of storage. For the browning pigment, the absorbance of 420nm and 440nm was increased after 6 weeks of storage. The similar trend was observed at 285nm where the precursor of browning pigment was investigated, however, the change was not observed for the freeze dryed ginseng.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.340-344
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• 1995

Banana purchased from local market was stored at 5, 15 and $25^{\circ}C$ for 10 days after which free sugars and organic acids were determined. The amount of glucose, fructose and sucrose was $0.30{\sim}0.36%$ at the initial time of storage. The changes of free sugar was influenced by storage temperature. At $5^{\circ}C$, little change in the content of each free sugar was measured and sucrose had a slightly higher value. Glucose and fructose showed a predominant increase while sucrose content decreased at 15 and $25^{\circ}C$. The values of total sugar, reducing sugar, glucose, fructose and free sugar contents at $25^{\circ}C$ were higher than at any other storage temperature. Citrate, malate, lactate and acetate in Banana were identified as organic acids. The total amount of organic acid decreased from $305{\sim}373.3$ mg% at the initial time to $45.9{\sim}67.9$ mg% after 9 days of storage. The reduction of organic acids contents was relatively high at $25^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.2004-2011
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• 2013

This study was carried out to investigate the chemical and microbiological properties of Kimchi containing different amounts of squid and octopus during fermentation at $4^{\circ}C$ for 56 days. Kimchi were assigned to one the of the following 7 treatment groups: CK (control Kimchi; no addition), SK-5 (added 5% of squid), SK-10 (added 10% of squid), SK-20 (added 20% of squid), OK-5 (added 5% of octopus), OK-10 (added 10% of octopus), and OK-20 (added 20% of octopus). The quality characteristics of CK and other treatments were determined by measuring the pH, titratable acidity, reducing sugar, volatile basic nitrogen (VBN), and microbial analysis. During fermentation, Kimchi containing squid and octopus had higher pH and lower acidity values than the CK group (P<0.05). The titratable acidity was increased in all treatment groups, whereas the reducing sugar content decreased gradually during fermentation. The reducing sugar contents were highest in the CK group. The VBN value increased in all treatment groups with increasing storage period, and the CK group had lower VBN value than the other treatment groups containing squid and octopus. The numbers of total bacteria and lactic acid bacteria rapidly increased up to the second week, and this slowly increased thereafter.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to investigate the chemical and sensory properties of Kimchi added apple Juice. Kimchi added amount of 0, 5 and 10% of apple juice was fermented at 4$^{\circ}C$ for 20 days. During the fermentation, pH was lowered in all Kimchi samples and pH of Kimchi added apple juice was a little lower than that of Kimchi without apple juice. Acidity was increased continuously and saltiness was maintained at 1.6~2.3% levels during fermentation. Although reducing sugar was increased in the early stage of fermentation, it was decreased subsequently as fermentation proceeded. Also the reducing sugar of Kimchi added apple juice was relatively higher than the other sample. Total vitamin C(Vit C) of Kimchi added apple juice was reduced in the early stage of fermentation and increased gradually after 10 days. As a result of the sensory evaluation, Kimchi added 5% of apple juice, was showed high scores in taste, flavor, texture and overall acceptability in the early stage of fermentation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.205-211
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• 2006

Jeung-pyun was irradiated at 0, 5, 10 kGy and pH, reducing sugar, microbiological quality, texture profile analysis and sensory quality were investigated during storage for 2 weeks at $25^{\circ}C$. Irradiation significantly reduced total bacteria counts and indicated an increase in hardness with increasing irradiation dose. Treatments with 5, 10 kGy did not cause significant change in the PH, reducing sugar, but pH, reducing sugar, microbacterial counts in 0 kGy were increased during storage. Main putrefactive microorganisms of Jeung-pyun were identified as Bacillus subtlis. In texture profile analysis, cohesiveness and chewiness of all irradiated samples were observed to reduce during storage. In the result of sensory evaluation, the irradiated samples had higher scores than non-irradiated samples after 4 days.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.241-249
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• 2002

In this research, we targeted to see if there was difference of shelf$.$lives of two different species cucumber. We pickled domestic and exporting cucumber to make comparison while they were fermented and stored. As for the domestic cucumber we choose CHICHEONG and for the exporting cucumber we choose special BAEKSEONG and SHARP 1. We blanched them and soaked them into hot saline water for 8 hours. Two kinds of Cucumber Kimchi were at room temperature for first day and 5'c from 2nd to 28th day. It was found, from the results, that all of samples of pH reached at 3.5 $\pm$ 0.1 on the 14th day of fermentation. The titratable acidity of the control increased on 14th day of fermentation, which was bit late than change of others. The reducing sugar contents of the control did not decrease until 7th day of fermentation while reducing sugar contents of others decreased gradually from the beginning. The patterns of Microfloral changes of two kinds of Cucumber Kimchi were similar during fermentation period. The number of total cell increased up to 14th day, similary the numbers of lactic acid bacteria increased up to 14th day then barely decreased. The hardness of the control was bit higher than others when it was measured on 14th day of fermentation. The sensory evaluation of Cucumber Kimchi with different species showed that both species had siginificant high negative scores in green color and crispness when those were compared between fermentation time and samples.