• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.127-133
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to confirm the effect of natural tooth whitening using fruits that can be easily accessed in real life by increasing interest in tooth whitening in modern society. Twenty premolar teeth were divided into five groups (n=4). Strawberry (A), lemon (B), banana skin (C), baking soda (D) and whitening toothpaste (E) were treated with a toothbrush on the enamel surface. The tooth surface was treated with a toothbrush at the same time for 3 minutes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then washed with sterile distilled water, and stored in saline solution. This procedure was repeated for 4 weeks, and the color change of teeth was observed at intervals of one week. After 4 weeks, there was a significant difference in tooth color change after 3 weeks(p<0.05). Among them, strawberry and lemon showed higer effects to whitening toothpaste. It is believed that strawberries and lemons have a higher whitening effect than whitening toothpaste. Whitening toothpaste may be replaced with a safe natural whitening effect using strawberries and lemons instead of chemical ingredients that may be harmful to human body.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.711-720
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• 2009

Leaf fibers have many good properties; they are strong, long, cheap, abundant and bio-degradable. Since they, however, contain a great quantity of non-cellulose components, they have been used for the materials of mats, ropes, bags and nets rather than those of clothing. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of leaf fibers in order to promote the use of leaf fibers for the materials of clothing as well as develop the high value-added textile fibers. Leaf fiber plants including New Zealand Flax, Henequen and Banana plant, which have various nature and shape, were used. New Zealand Flax and Henequen leaves were cut from lower part of plants. Banana leaves and pseudo-stems were peeled and cut from the stem of Banana plants. First, the thin outer skins like film of leaves, veins and stems were removed before retting. The chemical retting had been processed for 1hour, at 100 in 0.4% $H_2SO_4$ aqueous solution(liquid ratio 50:1). Then, the retted leaf fibers had been soaked for 1hour, at room temperature in 0.5% NaClO solution(v/v) to remove the miscellaneous materials. We investigated the physical characteristics of three leaf fibers including the transversal and longitudinal morphology, the contents(%) of pectin, lignin and hemicellulose, the length and diameter of fibers, the tensile strength of the fiber bundles, and the fiber crystallinity and the moisture regain(%). The lengths of fiber from three leaf fibers were similar to their leaf lengths. The fiber bundles were composed of the cellulose paralleled to the fiber axis and the non-cellulose intersecting at right angle with the fiber axis. The diameters of New Zealand Flax, Henequen and Banana fibers were $25.13{\mu}m$, $18.16{\mu}m$ and $14.01{\mu}m$, respectively and their tensile strengths were 19.40 Mpa, 32.16 Mpa and 8.45 Mpa, respective. The non-cellulose contents of three leaf fibers were relatively as high as 40%. If the non-cellulose contents of leaf fibers might be controlled, leaf fibers could be used for the materials of textile fiber, non-wovens and Korean traditional paper, Hanjee.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.998-1001
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• 2002

Micro-LC method for the quantitative determination of hydrogen peroxide in foods has been established. This method was carried out on cation-exchange resin gel column using distilled water as mobile phase with 50 mM sodium sulfate as electrolyte. The detection was performed with an electrochemical detector (ECD) at 0.6 voltage. Under this analytical condition, the recovery rates of hydrogen peroxide in tomato and lemon were 98.3 and 97.4%, respectively. Among 28 food types, hydrogen peroxide concentrations were 0.6, 0.5, 1.9, 0.9, 0.5, 0.6, 0.9, 0.8, and 0.4 ppm in banana, peach, orange, strawberry, pepper, onion, cucumber, burdock, and egg plant, respectively, Whereas none was detected in remaing 19 samples.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.512-517
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• 2009

Total phenolic content and the antioxidative activity (DPPH radical-scavenging capacity) of 29 fruits and vegetables were determined. The total phenolic contents of plum (1.06 mg GAE/g fresh weight) and cherry (0.95 mg GAE/g fresh weight) were high, whereas those of banana, carrot, and cucumber (each at 0.07 mg GAE/g fresh weight) were low. In the DPPH radical-scavenging assay, apple mango extract showed the highest value(92.8%) among the 29 ethanol extracts tested, followed by paprika (75.4%), beet (75.3%), and cherry (75.1%). In the $Lp-PLA_2$ inhibition assay, cherry (34.95% inhibition) and grape (31.03%) showed the highest $Lp-PLA_2$ activities among the 29 fruits and vegetables examined.

• Food Science and Industry
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.37-51
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• 2017

Food packaging strategies have steadily improved with increasing demand for improved food safety, convenience, and shelf life. The development of edible film has been hailed as a technology substituting packaging using synthetic plastics. There has been a surge for research to develop antimicrobial edible films and coatings that can increase microbiological safety while preserving foods. This review addresses recent results that are useful in advancing and extending research into antimicrobial edible films. In this review, we suggest the trend of the development of antimicrobial edible film/coatings by outlining edible film materials, antimicrobial substances, antimicrobial and physical properties of the films, commercial antimicrobial edible films, and methods to statistically predict the efficacy of antimicrobial edible film/coatings, reported in recent studies.

• Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.173-183
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• 2011

Gabensis village is one of the biggest village In the Wampar Local Level Government area within the Huon Gulf District of Morobe Province with a population of around 3,000. The major staple food is banana which is well complemented by minor staples yam, cassava, Singapore/Chinese taro and sweet potato. Apart from gardening for own consumption, the villagers engage in selling of vegetables, garden staples, cocoa beans, coconuts, timber, chicken, fish and pig meat to supplement their livelihood. Livestock like pigs and chickens are also kept for meat and for commercial purpose. Bettlenut which was once one of the main cash crops has now been overtaken by cocoa due to a disease that had attacked almost the entire bettlenut tree population in the area. Even though the Wau-Bulolo highway cuts through the village and all have access to transport infrastructure, the majority of the population still encounter problems in communication due to poor telecommunication coverage. On average most people earn not more than K50 per week due to constrains in production and marketing among others. Gabensis village has the potential to develop a tourism industry given its natural attraction of Lake Wanam. Beside there is also the natural eel farming and the fish pond at the nearby Potsie village. These natural attractions pose huge tourism potential for the community. As part of government services delivery and development, education and health issues is very much important in the community however there is lack of infrastructural development and poor service delivery especially in the area of health. However, the responsibility is on the community to organize themselves to realize that potential. A well developed agro-ecotourism investments would have positive spillover effects to the community thus contributing towards improving the livelihoods of the many farming families.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.85-99
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• 2022

Dryers becoming commercially available for experimental and industrial use are classified to general drying oven, hot-air dryer, vacuum dryer, freezing dryer, etc. and kinds of them are various from the function, size and volume, etc. But the moisture measurement is not applied although it is important factor for the quality control and the performance improvement of products, and then now is very passive because the weight is weighed arbitrarily after dry-end. Generally the method for measuring moisture is divided by a direct measurement method and a indirect measurement method, and the former such as the change of weight or volume on the front and rear of separation of moisture, etc. is mainly used. Relatively a indirect measurement is very limited to apply due to utilize measurement apparatuses using temperature conductivity and micro-wave etc. In this research, we easily designed the moisture measurement system using the open-source based Arduino, and monitored moisture fluctuations and weight profiles in the real-time without the effect of external environment. Concretely the temperature-humidity and load cell sensors were packaged into a drying oven and the various change values were measured, and their sensors capable to operate 60℃ and 80℃ were selected to suitable for the moisture sensitive materials and the food dry. And also the performance safety using the organic samples of banana, pear, sawdust could be secured because the changes of evaporation rate as the dry time and temperature, and the measurement values of load cell appeared stable response characteristics through repeated experiments. Hereafter we judge that the reliability can be improved increasingly through the expansion of temperature-humidity range and the comparative analysis with CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) program.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.235-242
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is the establishment of scientific processes for making food safety policies. Thus, we investigated pesticide residue level of the agricultural commodities from market, and performed risk assessment. Fifteen agricultural items are chosen based on the frequency of Korean consumption. The samples were collected from 9 cities where populations are more than one million. Total 283 active ingredients were monitoring ( total sample number =232). Single-analysis of target pesticides was for three kinds of possible growth regulators and the multicomponent analysis was for 280 kinds of pesticides, a total of 283 species were selected to perform the pesticide residues. Before monitoring the analytes, the improvements of the analytical methods were done by method validations under the CODEX analytical method development guidelines and can produce metrics that represent the international standards applied in accordance with the guidelines. In addition to residual pesticides detected during monitoring we compare the ADI to EDI values using detected result and dietary consumption data which is extracted from annual market basket survey. The 163 samples were non-detected in the total 232 samples so it means that every agricultural commodity will residual pesticides-free in 70.3%. The detected residual pesticides showed for a total of 69 cases (29.7%). Two of samples violate Korean MRL (0.9%). The ratio of EDI compared to ADI resulted in only from 0.00087 to 0.902%. In result, we can assume that all detected residual pesticides are very safe level and current policies of Korean pesticides control may be working.

• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.161-173
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• 2015

The multiresidue method 4.1.2.2 in Korea Food Code was extended for the analysis of 24 unregistered pesticide residues. The method includes acetonitrile extraction, liquid-liquid partition, Florisil SPE clean-up and GC analysis. The limits of quantification (LOQ) range of the method was 0.02~0.05 mg/kg for orange, brown rice and banana. The linearity for targeted pesticides were $R^2$ > 0.99 at the level ranged from 0.05 to 5 mg/L. Recovery test was performed at two concentration levels of LOQ and 4~10 times of LOQ. Recoveries and relative standard deviations (RSDs) of target pesticides were acceptable, showing 70~120% range and less than 20%, respectively, except for ethiprole, picloram and sulcotrion. This method is effectively applicable to routine analysis of target pesticides in orange, brown rice and banana.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 1999

The relation between food intakes and dental caries was investigated with 211 primary school students (83 boys and 128 girls) in Kumsan area. The results were as follows. The rate of dental caries of the subjects was 65.4%. 83.9% of the subjects had a snack, 69.5% of students having a snack and 44.1% of students having not snack was dental caries (p<0.001). For tooth brushing numbers per day, 38.4% of subjects was one time, and 61.6% was more than two times. For tooth brushing time, 31.8% had before meals and 68.2% after meals. The intake frequency rate of main food was cooked rice 33.30%, ramyun 14.81%, bread 9.57%, rice cake 6.16%, nodule 4.88% in good group, and cooked rice 27.04%, rice cake 12.04%, ramyun 8.50%, bread 8.11%, fried rice 5.49% in dental caries group. The intake frequency rate of a side dish was kimchi 13.88%, egg 6.21%, dried laver 5.51%, fish paste 5.51%, fish 5.03%, kongjaban 0.44% in good group, and potato soup 6.86%, cucumber 6.56%, sprout soup 5.78%, bean curd 5.33%, sesame leaf 5.21%, lettuce 1.23% in dental caries group. The intake frequency rate for snack was ice cream 9.85%, biscuit 7.35%, gum 6.17%, chestnut 6.16%, apple 5.81%, milk 5.56%, yogurt 4.86%, gypo 4.39%, candy 4.15%, chocolete 3.91% in good group, and biscuit 10.00%, ice cream 6.75%, candy 5.88%, fruit canned food 5.70%, milk 5.41%, corn 5.00%, banana 5.00%, peanut 4.42%, fritter 4.39% in dental caries group. The rate of cariogenic food, detergent food, protective food in a side dish were 4.0%, 40.8%, 55.1%o in good group, and 11.5%, 43.9%, 44.6% in dental group respectively (p<0.001). The rate of cariogenic food, detergent food, protective food in a snack 67.8%, 10.4%, 21.7% in good caries group, and 75.3%, 8.8%, 15.9% in dental caries group respectively (p＜0.001).