• Mycobiology
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.218-224
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• 2015

Aspergillus is an important fungal genus used for the fermentation of Asian foods; this genus is referred to as koji mold in Japan and China. A. oryzae, A. sojae, and A. tamari are used in the production of miso and shoyu in Japan, but a comprehensive taxonomic study of Aspergillus isolated from Meju, a fermented soybean starting material for traditional soy sauce and soybean paste in Korea, has not been conducted. In this study, various Aspergillus species were isolated during a study of the mycobiota of Meju, and the aspergilli were identified based on phenotypic characteristics and sequencing of the ${\beta}$-tubulin gene. Most strains of Aspergillus were found to belong to the following sections: Aspergillus (n = 220), Flavi (n = 213), and Nigri (n = 54). The most commonly identified species were A. oryzae (n = 183), A. pseudoglaucus (Eurotium repens) (n = 81), A. chevalieri (E. chevalieri) (n = 62), A. montevidensis (E. amstelodami) (n = 34), A. niger (n = 21), A. tamari (n = 15), A. ruber (E. rubrum) (n = 15), A. proliferans (n = 14), and A. luchuensis (n = 14); 25 species were identified from 533 Aspergillus strains. Aspergillus strains were mainly found during the high temperature fermentation period in the later steps of Meju fermentation.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2000

Phytoestrogen has been used as a suppliment of estrogen in order to treat osteoporosis. The representative phytoestrogens, isoflavones, are daidzein, genistein and formononetin which were present highly in our traditional soybean foods. The quantitative analysis of the isoflavone was done with a high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) using a UV/VIS detector for the contents of the isoflavones in Astragali Radix, soybean sprouts, bean-curd(Tofu), soybean, soybean oil, pea, kidney pea, black bean(Yak-kong), soybean sauce(Ganjang). soybean paste(Doenjang), and fermented soybean(Maejoo). The content of free daidzein in soybean sprouts was $43.49{\pm}3.41\;mg/kg$$ which was much higher than that in soybean, $14.52{\pm}0.58\;mg/kg$, although total daidzein of fermented soybean was lower than that in soybean (Table 2. P<0.01). The amounts of free genistein in soybean sprouts, fermented soybean. and soybean paste were $27.63{\pm}1.66\;mg/kg,\;291.52{\pm}6.81\;mg/kg,\;and\;18.75{\pm}1.33\;mg/kg$, respectively. The level of free formononetin in soybean paste was the highest among the soybean products (P<0.01). The content of formononetin in Aatragali Radix, $9629.73{\pm}0.57\;{\mu}g/kg$, was about 160 times higher than that in soybean. Thus Korean traditional soybean products, black bean(Yak-Kong) and Astragali Radix can be a good choice of phytoestrogens.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.44-55
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• 2016

Bacillus cereus is a gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium that has been isolated from contaminated fermented soybean food products and from the environment. B. cereus produces diarrheal and emetic toxins and has caused many outbreaks of foodborne diseases. In this study, we investigated whether B. amyloliquefaciens RD7-7, isolated from rice doenjang (Korean fermented soybean paste), a traditional Korean fermented soybean food, shows antimicrobial activity against B. cereus and regulates its toxin gene expression. B. amyloliquefaciens RD7-7 exhibited strong antibacterial activity against B. cereus and inhibited the expression of B. cereus toxin-related genes (groEL, nheA, nheC, and entFM). We also found that addition of water extracts of soybean and buckwheat soksungjang (Korean fermented soybean paste made in a short time) fermented with B. amyloliquefaciens RD7-7 significantly reduced the growth and toxin expression of B. cereus. These results indicate that B. amyloliquefaciens RD7-7 could be used to control B. cereus growth and toxin production in the fermented soybean food industry. Our findings also provide a basis for the development of candidate biological control agents against B. cereus to improve the safety of fermented soybean food products.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 1985

In order to give the unique flavour of traditional Doenjang (Korean-style soybean paste) to commercially manufactured soybean paste, the addition of Bacillus licheniformis and Saccharomyces rouxii was tried and their influences were investigated. The addition of B. licheniformis and S. rouxii in soybean paste decreased the content of reducing sugars. By the addition of B. licheniformis, the contents of amino type nitrogen and titrable acidity were increased. The content of ammoniacal nitrogen was reduced and ethyl alcohol production was increased by the addition of S. rouxii. The viable counts of molds showed the decreasing tendency during the aging and it was accelerated by the addition of B. licheniformis and S. rouxii. Acetaldehyde, acetone, ethylacetate, methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, propyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol were detected from the vapor of all tested ripen soybean pastes, while in a traditional Doenjang, isoamyl alcohol and isobutyl alcohol were not. The B. licheniformis and S. rouxii added sample showed richest free amino acid content. In organoleptic test the B. licheniformis and S. rouxii added sample showed the most excellent overall acceptability.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.298-308
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• 2009

In order to establish the quality standard of Jeju traditional Doenjang(soybean paste), general components, free sugar, organic acid, fatty acids, amino acids, and isoflavones contents were analyzed. Moisture, crude ash, crude protein, crude lipid, acid value, pH, and salinity were 37.33~47.43%, 12.75~15.97%, 11.06~14.28%, 0.08~0.53%, 17.83~27.55 mg/g, 4.82~5.12, and 10.66~13.91% respectively. The content of amino type nitrogen was 301.06~573.89 mg%. The compositions of free sugar were glucose (0.81~10.22 mg/g), maltose(0.64~5.28 mg/g), sucrose(0.78~3.86 mg/g), and fructose(0.72~1.11 mg/g). The major organic acid was lactic acid (89.30~180.39 mg/g). Total free amino acids were from 13.89 to 15.51%, which makes no difference between the test samples. Among amino acids, glutamic acid was abundant (2.12~2.55%). The contents of isoflavones were 274.87~431.96 mg/kg, less than those of commercial soybean paste. In fatty acid composition of soybean paste, the most abundant fatty acid was found to be linoleic acid as 61.54~66.79% in Jeju traditional Doenjang. This results might be caused by the differences of brewed periods, microflora, processing methods and used soybean cultivars.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.286-293
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• 1992

This study was investigated on the change of physico-chemical properties at various mixture ratio of improved Meju and Natto during the aging of soybean paste. pH was increased on the improved Meju with increasing the mixture ratio of Natto, but pH was decreased in Korean traditional Meju. Change of nitrogen compound was 3 times higher and aging was faster in increased ratio of Korean traditional Meju than that of improved Meju. Brown color was not changed as compared to the initial stage, however the value of brown color was higher in the Korean traditional Meju than that of other group. In sensory evaluation, the mixture ratio of improved Meju, Korean traditional Meju and Natto (48 : 48 : 5) was the best acceptables.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.97-97
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• 2001

The antimutagenicities of methanol extracts from traditional and commercial kochujang (Korean Red Pepper Soybean Paste) and their ingredients were evaluated in Salmonella/mammalian microsome assay system. The traditional kochujang showed higher antimutagenic effects than the commercial one against Ν-methyl-Ν'-nitro-Ν-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) in the Salmonella typhimurium TA100, a base-pair substituted mutant strain.(omitted)

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.458-463
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• 1999

Methanol extract and its fraction of traditional fermented soybean paste(doenjang) from Soonchang area were studied for growth suppression on the various tumor cells and suppression components, by using HPLC and GC were analysed. Hexane fraction of methanol extract was indicated 79%, 76%, 67%, 66%, 78% of growth suppression on L1210, P338D1, HepG2, WiDr and SNU 1 tumor cells, respectively. Ethylacetate fraction of methanol extract also showed 81%, 75%, 75%, 76% and 82% of growth suppression on the same tumor cells, respectively. Peak 8 obtained from HPLC of ethylacetate fraction indicated 81%, 77%, 77%, 75% and 79% of growth suppression on the same tumor cells and identified as a genistein, by comparing with standard one by HPLC analysis. Hexane fraction of methanol extract contained oleic acid, linoleic acid and palmitic acid.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.31 no.5 s.86
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• pp.444-450
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• 2005

The present study was designed to investigate whether traditional Korean fermented soybean paste(doen-jang) and soybean extracts have inhibitory effects on the growth of KB cell, an oral epithelioid cancer cell. When KB cell ATCC CCL-17 was cultivated for 48 flours with the addition of 0.5% of the five types or doen-jang extract, the growth of KB cell was inhibited by all types of extract, and ethyl acetate extract showed the highest inhibitory effect. In case of soybean extract, all types of extract also showed KB cell inhibitory effects, however, generally less than those of doen-jang extract. When ethyl acetate extract of doen-jang was added in different concentrations and KB cell was cultivated for 24 hours and 45 hours, strong inhibitory effect began to appear from the concentration of 1.25 mg/ml. Although soybean extract showed such a tendency, its effect was lower than that of doen-jang extract. These results indicate that doen-jang extract has inhibitory effect against KB cell, and particularly ethyl acetate extract has the highest effect. The effect of doen-jang extract might be possibly enhanced by the fermentation of soybeans. It is assumed that doen-jang extract may be used to develop nontoxic medicines for preventing and treating oral diseases.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.175-186
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• 2004

The “Jeungbosallimgyeongje” was literature reviewed about the manufacture of Korean sauces. Furthermore, in order to investigate the changes made by time period, other literatures, “Eumsigdimibang(1670s)”, “Sallimgyeongje(1715)”, “Gyuhapchongseo(1815)” and “Choson­mussangyorijebeop(1930)”, were compared. The ingredients mentioned included soy beans, flour, barley, elm trees, red beans and blue beans, etc. In addition, the shapes and sizes of dried soybean paste brick were varied. “Manchojang”, which designated the kind of hot pepper paste, appeared in this book for the first time. During its manufacturing process, it was characteristic to add dried bean paste, sea kelp and fish to produce a novel and higher quality product. From the above mentioned books, we found out that Koreans used only the soybeans and Chinese a mixture of buckwheat, flour and barley in addition to soybeans to make their traditional sauces. According to the“ Gyuhapchongseo” , there was a slight difference in ingredients to add for the manufacture of fish sauce, but the manufacturing methods and the one year period needed for maturing the ingredients were the same.. However, in the “Chosonmussangsinsikyrijebop”, fish sauce and meat sauce were classified separately and their manufacturing methods were different as well. In conclusion, the ingredients of used for the sauces recorded in “Jeungbosallimgyeongje” were various and at first hot pepper sauce made from “Manchojang” appeared and additionally red peppers were added to five kinds of Korean paste and red pepper powder were added to two kinds of Korean paste. The manufacturing method of the sauces changed according to time period, for example, only soybean has been used in Korean traditional sauces and other ingredients used as for Chinese ones eventually disappeared.