• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1333-1338
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• 1998

Several enzymes of kimchi ingredients were assayed to improve the product quality using these quality related enzyme information. Among various hydrolases, amylase and protease were selected with respect to lactic acid fermentation. Peroxidase and ascorbic acid oxidase were studied for off flavor production and ascorbic acid destruction. The amount of protein in kimchi ingredients, specific and total enzyme activity of sample were compared. Regarding total enzyme activity of sample, ${\alpha}-amylase$ activity of salted and fermented anchovy, dried red pepper and salted and fermented shrimp were higher than other ingredients. Activity of salted and fermented anchovy was 2,790.0 units/g sample. Salted and fermented anchovy, oyster and Chinese radish showed the highest ${\beta}-amylase$ activity (4.4, 2.1, 1.0 units/g sample, respectively). Salted and fermented anchovy showed the highest protease activity of 13.4 PU/g sample, followed by salted and fermented shrimp and dried red pepper. For peroxidase, Chinese radish, cucumber, green onion showed the highest activity of 7.2, 6.8 and 5.6 units/g sample, respectively. In case of ascorbic acid oxidase, salted and fermented anchovy showed the strongest enzyme activity (331.4 units/g sample), followed by dried red pepper and salted and fermented shrimp.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 1983

Large quantities of an ascidian, Styela plicata, are harvested annually as the by-product of oyster culture on the south coastal area in Korea. It has been traditionally favored and consumed because of its peculiar taste and flavor. But no study on its taste compounds has been reported. An investigation on the taste compounds of fresh meat and integument of an ascidian has been carried out by a series of analysis of taste compounds including nucleotides, free amino acids, betaine, TMAO, TMA and total creatinine. The most abundant nucleotides in fresh meat were AMP and IMP. Their contents were $1.2\;and\;0.8{\mu}mole/g$, respectively. The contents of nucleotides and their related compounds in integument show similar tendency as in fresh meat but their quantities were very low as compared with those in fresh meat. Seventy two percentage of the total free amino acids in fresh meat was consisted of proline, alanine, glutamic acid, glycine and serine. They occupied also 82% of the total free amino acids in integument, but the amount of free amino acids in integument was about 1/10 of that in fresh meat. The contents of betaine-N and creatinine-N were 6.1 and 2.1% of the extractive-N in fresh meat, respectively. The amounts of TMAO-N and TMA-N were very low contents in fresh meat and trace in integument.