• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.419-424
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• 1998

This study was carried out to investigate changes in the physicochemical and sensory characteristics of Oiji(Korean pickled cucumbers) prepared with different salts(bay, refined and purified salt). The pH of Oiji prepared with bay salt was higher than those prepared with refined and purified salts. The salt concentration of Oiji prepared with purified salt showed the highest value during fermentation period. The cutting forces at middle part of Oiji prepared with bay and refined salts were higher than those of raw cucumber, and bay salt resulted in the highest force during fermentation period. The result of sensory evaluation indicated significant differences in color, odor, taste, texture and overall acceptability among salts at 5% level. Oiji prepared with bay salt showed the highest score in most the sensory characteristics.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.323-333
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• 2005

This study was performed to analyze the quality characteristics of Oiji solution and Oiji preserved with $7\%$ salt brine and the others preserved with Pulsatilla koreana additives of varied concentrations $(3,\;6\;and\;9\%)$ during fermentation (24 days) at room temperature $(20\pm2^{\circ}C)$. The resuls of this experiment was as follows: The pH of Oiji added with Pulsatilla koreana of 3, 6 and $9\%$ tended to decrease as a fermentation period got longer. The acidity of Oiji was increased as a fermentation period got longer and reached the highest value in the 21st day. The acidity of Oiji solution was $0.92\~1.06\%$ and that of Oiji itself was $0.77\~1.61\%$. The Brix value showed $0.77\%$ for Oiji at the frist day and $3.33\~3.70\%$ at the 24th day. The Brix value of the Oiji with no addition showed the lowest value. Salt content was $2.39\~2.53\%$ for Oiji solution and $3.20\~3.33\%$ for Oiji. The tumidity as $\%T$ of Oiji solution was $52.67\%$ at the first day, that of Oiji solution with no addition of Pulsatilla koreana showed $-10.53\%$ and one which added $9\%$ Pulsatilla koreana showed $-1.16\%$ of tumidity as $\%T$ at the 24th day. As the fermentation period got longer, Oiji solution became tumid The tumidity of Oiji . solution with addition of Pulsatilla koreana showed a low level. For the texture of Oiji, hardness decreased in all cases and fracturability also decreased drastically, but adhesiveness increased as fermentation proceeded Sensory evaluation of Oiji with $6\%$ Pulsatilla koreana additives showed the highest score of taste, crispness and overall acceptance expect smell.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.613-618
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• 2005

This study was performed to analyze the microbiological properties of Oiji soaking solution and Oiji preserved with $7\%$ brine and the others preserved with Pulsatilla koreana additives of various concentration$(0,\;3,\;6,\;9\%)$ during fermentation(24 days) at room temperature$(20\pm2^{\circ}C)$. The results of this experiment are as follows: The total number of microbes showed radical increase up to 6th day of growth period and decreased afterwards. Growth of microbes was impeded in the beginning of fermentation in the case of adding $6\%$ Pulsatilla koreana. The number of lactic acid bacteria tended to increase progressively until 15th day and then decreased, and that in the group of $6\%$ Pulsatilla koreana was relatively lower than those of other groups. Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aereus and Micrococcus luteus was shown weakly from 9th day of fermentation regardless of the concentration of Pulsatilla koreana additives, but inactivated after 21st day of fermentation.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.385-392
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• 2004

Physicochemical and sensory characteristics of commercial Oiji, Korean pickled cucumbers (six commercial and three traditionally made products) were investigated. Saltiness values for commercial and traditionally made products were 3.424-4.47 and 3.92-7,23%, and acidity and pH were 3.43-3.85 and 0.39-0.75%, respectively, Commercial products showed lower L and higher b values than traditionally made products. Redness of both products ranged from -1.47 to -3.71. Numbers of total microbial, lactic acid bacteria, and yeast in traditionally made products ($1{\times}10^{7}-1.3{\times}10^{9},\;4{\times}10^{6}-4.7{\times}10^{8},\;and\;1.3{\times}10^{6}-3{\times}10^{8}\;cfu/mL,\;respectively$), were higher than those of commercial products ($1{\times}10^{4}-2{\times}10^{7},\;1{\times}10^{4}-6{\times}10^{6},\;and\;1{\times}10^{4}-6{\times}10^{6}cfu/mL\;respectively$). Texture analysis revealed fracturability (2,103-3,010 g) and hardness (409-890 g) varied among the products above. Overall acceptability scores of commercial products C1 and C2 were highest at 7.6-8.0 compared to other products (p<0.05). From the principal component analysis, the first principal component (PC1, 79.94%) and the second principal component (PC2, 19.94%) could describe the majority of the variability. Commercial product C1, C2, C3, and C7 having high negative loadings on the PC2 axis are closely related to over-all acceptability, over-all taste, savory taste and hardness. From Pearson correlation analysis, hardness and chewiness correlated positively with saltiness, whereas over-all acceptability, positively correlated with savory and overall taste, respectively (p<0.05).