• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.480-485
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• 2014

Brown rice contains both excellent nutritional value and functional advantages. However, its utilization is limited due to its rough texture and higher concentrations of phytic acid compared to white rice. We made brown rice inoculated with Lactobacillus sakei Wikim001 having phytate activity for 12 h (BRWK-12) and 24 h(BRWK-24) at $30^{\circ}C$ and evaluated the quality characteristics in an attempt to solve these problems. The pH of brown rice inoculated with L. sakei Wikim001 was reduced time dependently. A concentration of phytic acid in brown rice inoculated with L. sakei Wikim001 was decreased as compared normal brown rice (BR). BRWK-24 showed significantly high values in the brightness, redness and yellowness (p<0.05). BRWK-24 received higher scores in texture and overall acceptability than those of BR on the sensory evaluation test. Taken together, it is expected that a treatment of L. sakei Wikim001 in brown rice is useful for the development of new fermented brown rice with reduced phytic acid.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.973-982
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• 2017

Gastrodia elata Blume often has been used for the treatment of headaches, convulsions, hypertension, and neurodegenerative diseases. The main active constituents are gastrodin, 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, vanillyl alcohol, 4-hydroxybenzylaldehyde and parishin A, B, C and E. Because Gastrodia elata has also unacceptable off-odor (swine barnyard-like) for food, there is a need to reduce it as well as allow for greater utilization as a functional food materials. In this study, a major off-odor producing substance of Gastrodia elata was fractionated by steam distillation and silica gel column chromatography. The substance was identified as p-cresol(4-methyl phenol) by GC-MS analysis and comparison of the retention time with that of an authentic compound in GC. The content of p-cresol in fermented Gastrodia elata was decreased. A fermented sample of Latobacillus sakei for 2 days was reduced to 54.7%, when compared with a unfermented sample. The five parishin derivatives in Gastrodia elata were identified by HPLC-MS analyses, and a comparison of HPLC retention times with those of authentic compounds. When compared with parishin derivatives of an unfermented Gastrodia elata, those of Gastrodia elata fermented by L. sakei, increased to 18.3% for 2 days. Increases of about 14.0~38.4% of the total phenolic compounds and 57.4~77.3% total flavonoids were found in fermented extracts, by 3 lactic acid bacteria strains. They were compared with $97.1{\pm}2.9{\mu}g/g$ and $40.9{\pm}2.0{\mu}g/g$ in the unfermented control, respectively. The extracts of Gastrodia elata Blume that were fermented by lactic acid bacteria had higher DPPH free radical scavenging activity and FRAP reducing power than the unfermented control.