Antimicrobial Characteristics Against Spoilage Microorganisms and Food Preservative Effect of Cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia Blume) Bark Extract

계피추출물의 부패미생물에 대한 항균특성과 식품보존효과

The development of natural food preservatives instead of chemical synthetic food preservatives is world wide inte-rest. Authors already investigated that cinnamon bark extract revealed antimicrobial activity against general spoilage microorganisms of food especially its acitivity was stronger against molds than against bacteria. In this paper, authors examined the mirobial flora from the spoiled fish meat paste products and also checked the possibility of cinnamon bark extract food preservative for prolong the shelf life of the fish paste product and breads. The predominat bacteria was Bacillus sp. as about 98% of the total microorganisms isolated from unpacked or packed spoiled fish meat paste products. While molds and yeast are not detected from the vacuum packed products. The MIC(minimum inhibitory concentration) of cinnamon bark extract against the isolated spoilage bacteria and molds was 160~640$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$ and 40~80$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$, respectively. When the diluted cinnamon bark extract (the extract : ethanol=1 : 3) was sprayed on the surface of fried fish meat paste product, molds growth was delayed by 2 days at room temperature. The shelf lifes of sandwich and glutinousrice bread which surface sprayed with the diluted extract(1 : 1) was extended by 5 and 7 days, respectively.

1. 포장 또는 비포장의 부패된 어육연제품에서 분리된 미생물의 대부분(약 98%)은 Bacillus속을 비롯한 세균류였다. 특히 비포장어묵제품에서는 곰팡이도 약 0.1%검출되었다. 이들 부패미생물에 대한 계피추출물의 최저증식억제농도는 세균과 곰팡이에 대하여 각각 160~640$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$과 40~80$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$으로 나타났다. 2. 흰살어묵의 원료 배합시 계피추출물을 0.5% 첨가하면 첨가하지 않은 것에 비하여 $25^{\circ}C$에서 보존기간이 2일 연장되었다. 또한, 계피추출물과 ethanol을 1 : 3으로 혼합한 액을 튀김어묵표면에 분무한 것은 ethanol만 분무한 대조구에 비하여 곰팡이 발육이 2일간 지연되었다. 3. 샌드위치와 찹쌀떡의 표면에 계피추출물과 ethanol을 1 : 1 비율로 혼합한 액을 분무하여 $25^{\circ}C$에서 저장하면 곰팡이 발육이 대조구에 비하여 보존기간이 각각 5일과 7일정도 연장되었다.