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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2009.38.1.083

Effect of Relative Humidity and Storage Temperature on the Quality of Green Tea Powder  

Lee, Jung-Min (Dept. of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungnam University)
Lim, Sang-Wook (Dept. of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungnam University)
Cho, Sung-Hwan (Dept. of Food Science and Technology, and Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University)
Choi, Sung-Gil (Dept. of Food Science and Technology, and Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University)
Heo, Ho-Jin (Dept. of Food Science and Technology, and Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University)
Lee, Seung-Cheol (Dept. of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.38, no.1, 2009 , pp. 83-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
After storing green tea powder for three months at three different temperatures (-20, 4, and $20^{\circ}C$) with three different relative humidities (RHs) (23, 69, and 81%), the chemical quality was evaluated with green tea, which was prepared by soaking 1.5 g of the powder into 100 mL of distilled water at $70^{\circ}C$ for 5 min. Total phenolic contents, total flavanol contents, and ascorbic acid contents of green tea powder stored at $4^{\circ}C$ with 23% RH changed from 267.5, 49.4, and 24.2 mg/g to 287.1, 44.9, and 36.9 mg/g, respectively, compared to the powder before storage. EGC and EGCG, the main catechins of green tea, also changed from 16.9 and 27.3 mg/g to 24.3 and 36.5, g/g, respectively, after storage for 3 months at $4^{\circ}C$ with 23% RH. However, when the green tea powder was stored at -20 or $20^{\cric}C$ with higher RH such as 69 and 81%, the chemical compounds were significantly decreased. The results indicate that temperature and RH are important during storage of green tea powder, and low RH and refrigerated condition ($-4^{\cric}C$) are preferable to increase or preserve the chemical compounds of the tea.
Keywords
green tea; storage; relative humidity; chemical composition;
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