• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.728-732
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• 2002

To assess the quality of commercial sikhes, we compared physicochemical and sensory characteristics of commercial sikhe with home-made one. Six different brands and home-made sikhes were analysed for physicochemical (sugar content, acidity, color, viscosity, transparancy, texture of rice) and sensory characteristics (7-point scoring test,18 experienced panel members). Commercial sikhes (6 different companies) exhibited lower sugar content (11.6～12.5$^{\circ}$Brix) and viscosity (5.33～9.33 cP) than home-made one, whereas higher pH (5.93 ～6.87), transparency (9.1～46.5% at 558 m), Hunter L, a and b values. In the texture of rice, commercial sikhe showed higher hardness, springiness and chewiness than those of home-made one in. Sensory evaluation showed that malt and rice content, tex-ture and color of rice, and over-all preference for commercial sikhe was significantly lower than those for home-made one (p<0.05). Especially, the scores of over-all preference for 3 commercial sikhes (2.7～3.6) were much lower than that of home-made one (5.7).