• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1237-1243
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• 2003

As a newly emerging pasteurization method for improving the shelf-life of powdered ginseng, the corona discharge generated at high voltage conditions was examined for its effects on microbial pasteurization, physicochemical characterization, and sensory evaluation. The pasteurizing effects of corona discharge on total bacteria, yeast, molds, and coliforms increased with increasing voltage. However, corona discharge treatment of 5 kv/cm did not show significant effects of pasteurization on the yeast, molds, and coliforms. Treatment with 20 kv/cm reduced about 95% of the total bacteria $(6.14{\pm}0.04{\rightarrow}\;4.59{\pm}0.04$) and coliforms ($2.43{\pm}0.05{\rightarrow}\;1.00{\pm}0.05$) and 99% of the yeast and molds ($4.65{\pm}0.06{\rightarrow}\;2.73{\pm}0.06$). The proximate analysis, minerals, free sugars, crude saponin, and colors of the control ginseng and the ginseng treated with 20 kv/cm were not significantly different at p<0.05. Corona discharge of up to 20 kv/cm did not affect the proximate analysis, minerals, free sugars, crude saponin, and colors of the powdered ginseng. Sensory evaluation scores on color, flavor, taste and overall acceptability between the control ginseng and ginseng treated with 20 kv/cm corona discharge were not significantly different at p<0.05 level. Consequently, corona discharge treatment is thought to be a good alternative pasteurization method for improving the shelf-life of powdered ginseng due to its effective pasteurization, maintenance of nutrients and good sensory characteristics.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.628-634
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• 2003

To investigate the effects of storage and pasteurization temperature on the quality of kiwi juice $(13.5^{\circ}Brix)$, the Kiwi juice was pasteurized at 65, 75 and $85^{\circ}C$ for 15 sec. The microbial, physicochemical measurements and sensory evaluations were conducted at the same condition during storage at 4 and $25^{\circ}C$ for 30 days. Most of the vegetative bacteria cells in kiwi juice were destroyed by heat treatment over $65^{\circ}C$, and they did not actively grow in kiwi juice after pasteurization. The D values of bacteria in kiwi juice by tubular type of heating exchange were 4.17, 1.47 and 0.81 sec at 65, 75 and $85^{\circ}C$, respectively. The growth of microorganisms during storage were not detected in the most samples. The amounts of vitamin C decreased as the pasteurization-storage-temperature and storage time increased. While reducing sugar increased as the pasteurization-storage temperature-storage time increased, it decreased rapidly after 20 days of storage. Hunter's color values L, a and b of stored kiwi juice were decreased at all storage conditions, browning reaction rate increased as the pasteurization-storage-temperature was decreased.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.27-35
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• 2004

The shelf lift of market milk should be determined based on the flavor which is influenced by environmental and sanitary conditions of dairy farm, milk processing plant, and storage and transportation facility as well as compositional quality, such as protein and fat, of the milk itself. The legal shelf life of market milk is often limited by microbiological quality, e.g. total bacterial count, coliform count, and food poisoning bacteria. The bacteria involved with milk spoilage and poisoning are originated from bacteria contaminating milk after pasteurization or spores surviving the heat treatment of pasteurization. The important factors which influence the shelf life of market milk are microbiological quality of raw milk, pasteurization condition, post-pasteurization contamination, and temperature during storage and transportation. The organoleptic quality and shelf life of market milk should be further improved by satisfying the consumer's taste, which depends on somatic cell count and bacterial count of milk, feed quality, foreign substance in milk, and physical treatment during processing and transportation.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.156-160
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• 2011

A tray type-infrared (IR) pasteurization system was developed for decreasing microorganisms in red pepper powder (RPP). The RPP was passed through a tray by a vibrating mode under the 4 IR lamps (total 8000 W) and by circulating water under the tray. Fungi was pasteurized by applying power higher than 2000 W to the RPP. The decrease in viable cell numbers of bacteria, however, was not observed under the same conditions. Conveying speed of RPP was optimized to 106-164 g/min on the basis of microbial reduction and retaining of moisture content of RPP. The water content of 32 mesh-RPP decreased rapidly after pasteurization. However, fungi in both RPPs could be sterilized regardless of particle sizes. The repetition of IR pasteurization was not favourable due to severe decrease of water content in RPP. The IR pasteurization of RPP did not cause significant difference in the capsaicinoid contents, ASTA colour value, and L, a, and b values under all investigated conditions.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.197-200
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• 1982

Pasteurization conditions of chinese cabbage-Kimchi were investigated in the Kimchi pasteurizer which sterilized the liquid portion and mixed with that of non-heat treated solid of Kimchi in a constant volume reservoir. The shelf-life of the sterilized Kimchi were compared at various temperature 75, 81, $85^{\circ}C$ and pasteurization cycles - numbers of passage through holding section of the pasteurizer-for the optimum pasteurization conditions. The optimum temperature were $75^{\circ}C$ for one cycle and $81^{\circ}C$ for 3 cycles. More than two weeks shelf-life of Kimchi was prolonged when pasteurized 3 cycles at $81^{\circ}C$. Similar results were obtained with the seasoned Kimchi containing red pepper powder.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.1392-1396
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• 1999

This work was to apply the microwave energy to HTST pasteurization of milk in order to prevent undesirable quality changes due to the fouling and overheating on the surface of heat exchanger. A continuous tubulartype microwave pasteurization system was designed using a domestic microwave oven(800w and 2,450MHz). Raw milk was HTST pasteurized$(at\;72^{circ}C\;for\;15\;sec)$ by three methods; by heating in a stainless steel tube immersed in a hot water bath(MP0), by heating in a microwave cavity to a desired temperature and then holding in a hot water bath(MP1) and by both heating and holding in a microwave cavity(MP2). The microbial quality based on the total plate count and Psychotrophic bacterial count was in the order MP0, MP2 and MP1 ; however, the quality difference was not significant(p<0.05) when the initial microbial numbers were involved in the statistical analysis. In addition, the three samples pasteurized by different methods showed the similar microbial quality based on the coliform count and phosphatase activity. The similar microbial quality of the three samples supports the potential use of microwave energy for the pasteurization of milk and other fluid food products.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.1196-1202
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• 1999

This work was to determine the microbial and physico-chemical changes of HTST-pasteurized soymilk using microwave energy. Soymilk was HTST pasteurized$(at\;90^{\circ}C\;for\;20\;sec)$ by three methods: by heating in a stainless steel tube immersed in a hot water bath(MP0), by heating in a microwave cavity to a defiled temperature and then holding in a hot water bath(MP1), and by both heating and holding in a microwave cavity(MP2). The microbial quality based on the total plate count was in the order of MP0, MP2 and MP1. The three samples pasteurized by different methods showed the similar microbial quality with respect to the coliform count, psychrotrophic bacterial count and phosphatase activity. The destruction of trypsin inhibitor was in the order of MP0, MP1 and MP2. There were no significant differences in pH, titratable acidity, viscosity and vitamin $B_2$ content before and after pasteurization and among the different pasteurization methods. The similar or higher quality retention of the MP1 or MP2 supports the possibility of using microwave energy for the HTST pasteurization of soymilk and other fluid food products.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.730-736
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• 1997

Pasteurization of low salt dongchimi juice was studied for the effect of heating temperature and time on total viable counts and some physicochemical and sensory properties. The juice was prepared by fermentation of the radish at $20^{\circ}C$ in 0.5% NaCl solution. Heating the juice (pH 3.8) at $60{\sim}100^{\circ}C\;for\;5{\sim}30$ min caused little changes in pH and total acidity while the lightness (L value) was decreased and the turbidity, a and b values of color were increased as the heating temperature and time increased. The total viable counts of microorganisms was significantly decreased to 18 at $60^{\circ}C$ and 6 at $70^{\circ}C$ after 30 min heating and was not detected after heating at 90 and $100^{\circ}C$ for 10 min. The sensory test showed that heating up to $70^{\circ}C$ for 20 min caused a little cooked off-flavor. After storage of the pasteurized juices at $30^{\circ}C$ for 10 days, the pH, total acidity and color were changed little while the unheated juice changed significantly. The total viable counts of microorganisms was also remained initial level after pasteurization. Therefore pasteurization at $60^{\circ}C$ for 30 min or $70^{\circ}C$ for 20 min was recommendable in the aspects of storage stability and quality characteristics.

• Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2005

This study was conducted to evaluate changes of microbial population, pepsin digestibility of protein and in vitro digestibility of nutrients of food waste mixture pasteurized and cured using a rotary drum system. A pasteurization process (30 min at $80^{\circ}C$) tended to decrease microbial populations and eliminated (P<0.05) molds in food waste mixture. The subsequent curing process increased (P<0.05) lactic acid bacteria counts which were reduced by the heated pasteurization process. The heated pasteurization process decreased (P<0.05) pepsin digestibility of protein in food waste mixture. In vitro digestibilities of dry matter and organic matter were high in the order of bakery by-product, wheat bran, food waste (=barley bran). These results indicate that food waste mixture pasteurized and cured using a semi-dehydration rotary drum system may be an effective animal feed resource.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 1996

The effects of temperature variations during storage, pasteurization on the quality of orange juices were investigated. To evaluate the quality of orange juices pasteurized at 75, 85 and $95^{\circ}C$ for 15 sec, microbial and physicochemical measurements and sensory evaluations were conducted during storage at 10, 20 and $30^{\circ}C$ for 32days. Color(lightness) and contents of vitamin C and sucrose were not changed at $10^{\circ}C$, but decreased at $20^{\circ}C$ and $30^{\circ}C$ as the storage time was increased. The pasteurization temperature had a little effect on the color and the contents of vitamin C and sucrose. Furfural contents were apparently increased as the storage period extended, but the samples stored at $10^{\circ}C$ had less amounts than the others. On the other hand, the pasteurization temperature did not affect furfural accumulation. Furfural was produced as a result of the degradation of vitamin C and deterioration of the color. The PH values were not changed during the entire storage period, and microorganisms were not detected in most of the samples. The result of sensory evaluation indicated no taste difference between the control and the sample stored at $10^{\circ}C$, but the taste changes were recognized when the samples were stored over 24 and 20 days at $20^{\circ}C$ and $30^{\circ}C$, respectively. Therefore, the storage temperature affected the quality of orange juices more markedly than the pasteurization temperature, and the storage at lower temperature appears to reduce the deterioration of orange juices.