• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.308-314
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• 2006

This study was carried out to investigate the physicochemical quality characteristics of Nouaejelly(jelly using silkworm powder) sericultural products which were manufactured using various levels(0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2%) of silkworm powder. The effects of an additional amount of silkworm powder to Nouaejelly were determined by examining, the physicochemical, sensory, and textural properties. The moisture and crude protein content of the Nouaejelly were higher than that of the control(p<0.05). However, the crude fat content of the Nouaejelly was lower than that of the control(p<0.05). The mineral content increased with increasing addition of silkworm powder. The color of the Nouaejelly became darker with increasing levels of silkworm powder. For the texture measurements, the hardness, gumminess and chewiness of the Nouaejelly decreased with increasing levels of silkworm powder, but those of the jelly were decreased significantly by adding 0.5% silkworm powder(p<0.05). In terms of color, the texture and overall preference of Nouaejelly was highest in the jelly containing 1 % silkworm powder(p<0.05). Overall, the optimal amount of silkworm powder added in the manufacture of Nouaejelly was 1% of the total weight.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.799-804
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• 2008

This study was performed to determine physicochemical and sensory quality of low-fat pork loaf containing silkworm powder and vegetable worm (Paecilomyces japonica). Total 2% of fat replacer (soy protein isolate:maltodextrin:$\kappa$-carrageenan:water=1:0.5:0.5:10, w/v) was added. The loaf was separated into CTL (control), T1 (0.2% silkworm powder), T2 (0.2% vegetable worm), T3 (0.4% silkworm powder), T4 (0.4% vegetable worm), T5 (0.1% silkworm powder+0.1% vegetable worm), and T6 (0.2% silkworm powder+0.2% vegetable worm). Pork loaf of T3 showed the highest pH value and cooking loss of pork loaves containing silkworm and vegetable worm was higher than control at day 5. 2-Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances of T2 and T5 showed significantly lower values than control and those additives may reduce lipid oxidation of meat. Overall acceptability was not adversely influenced by silkworm powder and vegetable worm at day 0 and 5. These results indicated that those silkworm powder and vegetable worm could be utilized for pork product industry.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2002

Cocoon production, which is a representative of traditional sericulture shifted into silkworm powder production in the spring of 1995. This, infect, signifies the change from the dress-centered textile business to the bio-industry and the functional resource industry. One of the most outstanding shifting is utilization of silkworm larvae for anti-diabetic agent. In Asian countries including Korea, silkworm powder derived from the domestic silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) has long been favored for anti-diabetic agent, but its efficacy was not tested until last decade by modern scientific methods. In this article, we reviewed the major researches on the silkworm powder as a blood glucose-lowering substance. After the beginning test of the efficacy of silkworm powder by a cooperative research between Department of Sericulture and Entomlogy, NIAST, RDA and Kyung Hee University, substantial data have been accumulated so far, In a serial experiment to select best condition, the fifth instar larvae prepared by freeze dry method turned out to have the best blood glucose-lowering effect. In the pharmacological experiment to understand the mechanism of silkworm powder in small intestine, the silkworm powder turned out to inhibit the activity of ${\alpha}$-glucosidase, by competitively binding to $\alpha$-type disaccharides. The animal experiment showed that the extract of silkworm powder prevents a rapid increase of blood glucose level after meal and prevents hunger and law blood glucose level during empty stomach. In the experiment to isolate the major component of silkworm powder, which exerts blood glucose-lowering effect, 1-deoxynojirimy-cin (DNJ) was eventually mass-purified, and it turned out that DNJ isolated from silkworm powder was excellent in its blood glucose-lowering effect. In the experiment to understand the personal difference of the efficacy of the silkworm powder, clinical candidates were divided on the basis of the criterion of traditional Chinese medicine: Tae-Yang, Tae-Um, So-yang, and So-Um. The result showed that silkworm powder has a tendency to reduce blood glucose level at fasting and at 2 hours after meal, and this trend was somewhat obvious in the Tae-Um body type. In summary, we reviewed scientific papers on the efficacy of silkworm powder and its purified DNJ as a blood glucose-lowering agent. These suggest that silkworm powder truly possesses blood glucose-lowering effect as documented in the traditional Chinese medicine, although further researches will be required to develop them as "medical" resource instead of functional food.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.30-33
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• 2015

Enzymatic modification of proteins is often used to increase the biological activity of materials. Silkworm powder has been investigated as a functional food resource, but no study has been performed on its modification by commercial food enzyme. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the feasibility of such modification of silkworm powder by alkaline protease. The activity of the enzyme was confirmed using an azocasein assay. Subsequently the silkworm powder was hydrolyzed by enzymatic treatment. UV visible spectrometry showed that the supernatant of silkworm powder subjected to enzymatic treatment had a stronger absorption band than the untreated powder. SDS-PAGE electrophoresis showed that the molecular weight of silkworm powder decreased on enzymatic treatment. Thus the results indicate that commercial enzymes might be used to modify the characteristics of silkworm powder.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.346-351
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• 2004

This study was carried out to examine the antioxidant effects of a mixture of mulberry leaves and silkworm powder in plasma and liver of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Sprague-Dawley male rats weighing 100$\pm$10 g were used and their diets were supplemented with $0.4\%$ (4 g/kg) of the mixtures. Experimental groups were diabetic rats without supplements (DM group) or with a combination of the supplements: $100\%$ mulberry leaves (M group), $25\%$ silkworm powder mixed with mulberry leaves (25SM group), $50\%$ silkworm powder mixed with mulberry leaves (50SM group), $75\%$ silkworm powder mixed with mulberry leaves (75SM group) or $100\%$ silkworm powder (100S group). The rats were fed experimental diets and water ad libitum. All animals were injected with streptozotocin at the $3^{rd}$ week for inducing diabetes and were sacrificed on $9^{th}$ day thereafter. Hepatic xanthine oxidase (XOD) activity significantly decreased in the mixture supplemented groups compared to the DM group. Hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was not significantly different among any of the experimental groups, but glutathione peroxidase (GSH-px) activity increased in the mixture supplemented groups compared to the DM group. In particular, it was the highest in the 50SM group. The hepatic TBARS values were lower in all the mixture supplemented groups than in the DM group, and it was as lowest when ratio of mulberry leaves to silkworm powder was highest. Hepatic lipofuscin contents were similar with the TBARS value. In conclusion, the mixtures containing silkworm powder reduced oxidative damage by strengtbening the antioxidative system and suppressing oxidative stress in the STZ-induced diabetic rat. The 1:1 blend of silkworm powder and mulberry leaves was the most effective combination for antioxidant activity.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 1997

Bombyx mori, silkworm powder has been studied for blood-glucose lowering activity by National Sericulture & Entomology Research Institute(NSERI) and Kyung Hee University group in 1995. To obtain the optimum preparative condition of silkworm powder for lowering blood-glucose levels in postprandial time, blood-glucose lowering activity of mulberry & silkworm varieties were examined. In mulberry varieties, Samkwangjam showed the highest activity. Activity for lowering blood-glucose levels of autumn rearing silkworm was higher than that of spring silkworm and hybrid silkworm showed higher activity than that of parent silkworm. In the silkworm lines, Chinese lines showed higher activity than that of Japanese lines. In experiments to see the difference in blood-glucose lowering activity between either male and female or larvae and pupae, activity of larvae was higher than that of pupae and the male was higher than female. The heating dry and artificial diet showed lower than mulberry diet and normal freeze dry of the 5th instar 3rd day. Among the sericultural products, larvae showed the highest activity.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2020

Silkworm powder was prepared from 3^rd day of 5^th instar silkworm through various drying technology including freeze drying, hot wind drying, infrared drying, and microwave drying. The shape of silkworm dried was different with the drying methods. Freeze drying and microwave drying silkworm looked its original form, but hot wind drying and infrared drying silkworm looked shriveled and crumpled. The color of silkworm powder freeze-dried changed from yellowish green to hazel with lowering freezing temperature. Heavy metals including Pb, Cd, As, and Hg were lower the food criteria. The results of 1-deoxynojirimycin analysis was shown that BaekOkJam and GoldenSilk silkworm powder was satisfied the criteria of functional food, but YeonNokJam silkworm powder was lower than the criteria. The amino acid composition of silkworm was similar regardless of the frozen temperature in freeze drying process.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.277-281
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• 2013

Silkworm powder, which contains 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), is a promising complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Korea. Silkworm powder was produced from Yeonnokjam pupae at d 3 of the 5th instar at the National Academy of Agricultural Science. The powder was derivatized with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC-Cl), and the DNJ-FMOC content was measured by HPLC. We investigated the content of 1-DNJ in the silkworm powder and its glucose-lowering effect when it was treated at different temperatures. The content of 1-DNJ was the lowest at $150^{\circ}C$, while it was constant at other temperatures. The silkworm extract powder was orally administered to diabetic mice (20 mg/kg/d) for 4 wk. Water intake did not significantly change when compared with the control group (T0). The blood glucose levels significantly decreased when mice where administered silkworm powder treated at $60^{\circ}C$ (T60) compared to the control group, but no difference was observed between the groups T100 and T150. Moreover, the blood levels of TG significantly decreased compared with the control group. Based on these results, we surmise that the properties of the silkworm extract powder were stable upon heating at $100^{\circ}C$ but not at $150^{\circ}C$.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.521-528
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• 2008

본 연구는 누에분말 및 누에동충하초분말을 첨가하여 제조한 돈육 패티의 $5^{\circ}C$ 냉장저장 기간(0, 3, 6, 9일)동안의 품질변화를 평가하기 위해 실시하였다. 저장 6일차까지 처리구가 대조구보다 유의적으로 높은 pH값을 보였으며 육색의 경우 누에분말과 누에 동충하초 분말 첨가비율이 높을수록 L과 a값은 감소했으며 b값은 증가하였다(p<0.05). 누에분말과 누에 동충하초 분말 첨가가 보수력에는 크게 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났으며 T2 처리구에서 낮은 가열감량을 보여 0.4%의 누에분말이 가열감량을 억제하였다(p<0.05). 지방산패도는 누에분말과 누에동충하초분말 첨가구 및 혼합 첨가구에서 모두 대조구보다 낮은 수준을 보였다(p<0.05). 그러나 누에분말과 누에동충하초분말 처리간의 뚜렷한 차이는 보이지 않았다. 돈육 패티의 관능적 특성은 저장기간이 증가함에 따라 감소하였으나 풍미의 경우 저장초기에는 처리구의 기호도가 높았으나 저장기간이 증가하면서 차이는 보이지 않았다. 냄새도 대조구와 차이가 없었으며 종합적기호도에서도 저장초기에 대조구보다 높은 기호도를 보였으나 저장기간이 증가하면서 대조구에 비해 높거나 차이가 없었다. 누에분말과 누에동충하초분말 처리구간의 뚜렷한 기호도 차이는 보이지 않았다. 따라서 누에 및 누에동충하초분말은 돈육 패티의 pH값을 증가시키며 가열감량과 지방산패도를 억제시켰으며 보수력과 관능적 특성에도 부정적인 영향을 보이지 않아 추후 가공육제품의 첨가제로의 이용 가능성을 나타내었다.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.221-225
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• 2008

현대 사회는 지금 기능성 식품에 지대한 관심이 높아졌다. 특히 성인병에 좋은 식품들의 연구가 활발히 이루어지는 실정이다(Kim et al 2003). 누에 가루 첨가가 다식의 품질 특성에 미치는 영향을 보기 위해 누에 분말 첨가 비율(0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)을 달리하여 다식을 제조한 다음, 다식의 수분, 색도 측정, 물성측성, 관능 평가를 한 결과 다음과 같다. 수분 함량은 누에가루 첨가량이 늘어날수록 유의적으로 증가하였다. 누에 가루다식의 색도 측정 결과 L값은 대조군에 비해 누에 가루의 첨가량이 증가할수록 유의적으로 낮아졌으며(p<0.05), a와 b값은 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 누에 가루 첨가 수준에 따른 다식의 물성을 측정한 결과, 경도(hardness)는 첨가량이 많을수록 단단함의 정도가 유의적으로 감소하는 것을 보였으며(p<0.05), 부착성(adhesiveness)은 누에 가루 첨가량이 40%에서 높게 나왔다. 누에 가루 첨가 수준에 따른 다식의 관능 특성을 조사한 결과, 30% 누에 가루를 첨가한 다식이 색, 향, 맛 등의 기호도가 높은 것으로 조사되었고, 씹힘성은 누에 가루를 첨가하지 않은 다식의 기호도가 유의적으로 가장 낮았다(p<0.05). 따라서 누에 분말을30%로 첨가한 다식의 기호도와 전체적인 품질 특성이 가장 적합한 것으로 생각되어지며, 기능성식품으로 우리 전통적인 다식에 누에 가루를 첨가하여 활용되어질 수 있으리라 보여진다.