• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.681-688
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• 2000

This study was an attempt to use arrowroot, a common plant in Korea used as food to relieve famine, for making noodles and to set up a standard formulation for arrowroot-starch-containing noodle. Arrowroot starch was mixed with wheat flour at a different ratio and used to make noodles. Cooking quality and texture were measured, and sensory evaluation was performed with the noodles prepared. Water binding capacity of arrowroot starch was higher than that of wheat flour. Maximum viscosity of the composite arrowroot-wheat flours was increased as the arrowroot starch content increased as measured by amylograph. Addition of arrowroot starch at 10% level improved the quality of noodles. Texture measurement showed that the noodles of the composite flour containing 10% or 20% arrowroot starch were superior to those of wheat flour alone； however, the scores of arrowroot-con-taming noodles were similar to those of wheat flour alone in sensory evaluation.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.83-91
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• 2018

Baekseolgi made with arrowroot flour (AF, 0 to 15% of rice flour) was steamed to examine the effect of heating on its antioxidant activity and physicochemical properties. Despite the presence of abundant dietary fiber and superior water-holding capacity of AF, moisture in baekseolgi was not significantly increased. This could partly be attributed to AF having 50% less moisture content than rice flour. Hence, hardness of baekseolgi was also not significantly altered. Total reducing capacity and flavonoid content of baekseolgi increased proportionally with the increase in AF addition. However, these values were lower than the predicted values calculated from the antioxidant activities of heated AF, which was more apparent in total reducing capacity. This indicated that the stability of non-phenolic reducing compounds in AF was lower than that of the phenolic compounds. Thermally processed baekseolgi made with 9% AF exhibited antioxidant activity without noticeable loss in the quality of the product.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.162-167
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• 1987

This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of the feeding value for the wild legumes silage-making with additives. The chopped Kudzu (Puerarie thunbergii Bentham) of wild legumes was ensiled by the conventional method in the small experimental silo of 2 liters. The additives used in the present experiments were water (8%),water (8%) plus corn starch (3%) and water (8%) plus glucose (3%). These additives as well as that of control without additive were set up and these silage were compared with the conventional corn silage. The fermentative qualities and the characteristic of fiber (neutral detergent fiber, NDF; acid detergent fiber, ADF; acid detergent lignin, ADL) of silage produced was determined by chemical analysis, and dry matter digestibility (DMD) was evaluated by pepsin-cellulase technique. The results obtained are summarized as follows: 1 The weight of Kudzu silage was lost under the 10% for all the treatments. 2 In degree of pH for the Kudzu silages with glucose, starch, control and water treatments were high 3.80,4.04,4.57 and 5.34, respectively.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.56-61
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• 2008

The kudzu has been investigated as an adsorbent for treatment of Cr(VI)-containing wastewater. The specific surface of kudzu was analyzed to be $189.91m^2/g$ and its major composition were found to be nitrogen and oxygen. It was observed that adsorption reaction for Cr(VI) on kudzu meets 1st order in kinetics and Langmuir Model in equilibrium. As the pH of wastewater was increased, the adsorbed amount of Cr(VI) onto kudzu was increased due to the pre-combination of $OH^-$ with adsorbent and the efficiency of adsorption was found to be 60% when real electroplating Cr(VI)-containing wastewater was applied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.147-149
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• 2008

현재 칡은 잎, 줄기, 뿌리를 이용해 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 칡의 줄기를 이용해 삼태기, 광주리, 바구니 등을 제작하고, 꽃으로는 갈화라하여 식욕부진, 구토, 장출혈, 술 중독 등에 처방하고 있다. 그 중 뿌리는 고열, 두통, 고혈압, 주독, 설사 등에 효과가 있어 뿌리를 달여 칡차로서 많이 음용되고 있다. 하지만 뿌리의 즙을 짜고 남은 칡뿌리 섬유의 잔사는 식물성 섬유소로서 현재 대부분 폐기되거나 일부 양축 농가에서 사료의 증량제로 활용되고 있는 실정이다. 매년 1,000톤이상의 칡뿌리 생산량 중 잔사가 600톤 이상 된다. 이 잔사를 이용해 펄프를 만들고 필름을 만들어 나아가 섬유를 만듬으로써 친환경적인 섬유로써의 가능성을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.345-350
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• 2002

This study was carried out to determine the effect of gamma irradiated Puerariae radix extract on color removal, antioxidative, DPPH radical scavenging and antimicrobial efftcts. Puerariae radix were extracted with methanol and acetone and irrdiated 10, 20 and 30 kGy with gamma ray. Hunter color L-value increased by irrdiation in a dose dependent manner, resulting in brighter color. But a and b values decreased by irradiation in a dose dependent manner. Antioxidant activities of the Puerariae radix extract in soybean oil emulsion were higher in methanol extract than acetone extract. Scavenging effect of Puerariae radix extracts on DPPH radical with methanol was not changed by irradiation but acetone decreased Acetone extract from Puerariae radix showed antimicrobial activities in B. subtilis, B, natto, B, megaterium S, aureus, Sal, typhymurium and E. coli methanol extract also had the antimicrobial activities but weaker for Sal. typhymurium and E. coli. Results suggested that Puerariae radix extracts have a potential as a natural food preservatives and cosmetic raw material.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.446-453
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• 2009

RAPD analyses were performed to investigate genetic relationships and useful molecular maker for 3 species and their 17 regional populations of the Pueraria lobata and related taxa. The length of amplified DNA fragments ranged from 200 to, 2,800 bp. Two hundred and eight scorable polymorphic makers and three scorable monomorphic makers were found from the PCR reactions with 15 random oligo primers, and those were analyzed by Nei's genetic distance coefficient. Based on the UPGMA phenogram from RAPD analyses, two major groups (9 populations from Korea; 3 populations from foreign countries) were recognized. And it showed distinct genetic differences from related taxa. The RAPD results was very useful to define the samples by geographical distribution and to discuss the relationships among the populations and their related taxa of the Pueraria lobata.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2004

To assess the estrogenicities of Korean arrowroot (Pueraria thunbergiana) the contents of nine phytochemicals which are known to present were analyzed by HPLC. Also the estrogenecities of these phytochemicals were assayed using estrogen receptor dependent transcriptional expression assay. Daidzein and puerarin are major compounds in arrowroot, which were contained in the order of: root>stem>leaf>flower>seed. Among the assayed phytochemicals daidzein, genistein, biochanin A, formononetin, puerarin and genistin were highly estrogenic. The total estrogenicities in different parts of arrowroot and those by regions in Korea were also assessed. Roots had the highest estrogenic effects. The estrogenicities also were shown in stem and leaf. The differences in the estrogenicities of arrowroots by regions in Korea were shown. These results demonstrated that the estrogenic phytochemicals content was the highest in Korean arrowroot and also present in stem and leaf.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.740-743
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• 2004

Rheological properties of gamma-irradiated arrowroot starch was examined to utilize as fundamental research data far processing. Irradiated arrowroot starch solutions (3, 4, 5, 6%) were gelatinized at $95^{\circ}C$ for 40 min, and its flow properties measured using rheometer at $30^{\circ}C$ and 10 to 200 rpm rotation rate. Rheological parameters of irradiated arrowroot starch gelatinized solution were calculated using Herschel-Bulkley equation. Gelatinized arrowroot starch solutions irradiated at $0^{\circ}C$ and 5kGy showed pseudoplastic fluid behavior, while those irradiated at 10, 20, and 30kGy were the dilatant with ${\tau}_y=0$ (yield stress).

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2010

Recently. dyeing by harmless natural materials has received much attention due to the side-effects occurred from dyeing by synthetic dyes. In this study, we examined the effect of extracts of Pueraria thunbergiana (P. thunbergiana) roots, which are treated as natural products as well as agricultural wastes, on the hair dyeing by measuring dyeing interval, temperature, density changes, mordant and chromatic faction. The hair dyeing by the extracts significantly reduced hair damage and kept cuticle of hair softer than that by synthetic dyes. In addition, since a mordant is one of the necessary additives in dyeing, the role of a mordant was studied and concluded to be a supplementary substance based on the results that the hair dyeing by the extracts of P. thunbergiana roots alone was much darker than the others. Taken together, the data presented in this study suggest that the extracts of P. thunbergiana roots are is less damageable to hair and thus can be more safely applicable to hair dyes than that by synthetic dyes.