• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.510-516
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• 2017

This study was performed to analyze the content of 6 different fusel oils in 9 types of liquor distributed in domestic market. GC-FID method was employed for quantifying fusel oil (1-propanol, iso-butanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol, iso-amyl alcohol, active amyl alcohol) levels in 260 liquor samples of liquor. Relative standard deviations (%) of intra-and interday measurements were under 1.56 and 2.44%, respectively, while recovery rates (%) were 98.22-105.26% and 98.53-107.15%, respectively. Pretreatment method (filtering and centrifugation) of Takju did not affect analytic results. The average of total fusel oil contents in Yakju (39 types) and fruit wines (30 types) were 497.6 and 151.9 mg/L, showing Yakju contains more fusel oils than Takju or fruit wines. In fruit wines, iso-amyl alcohol was the major fusel oil component (at 6.8-249.0 mg/L). The highest content of fusel oil was found in foreign brandy, whereas the diluted Soju did not contain fusel oils. However, the average of total fusel oil contents was high at 764.5 mg/L in the three types of distilled Soju and iso-amyl alcohol content ranged from 114.2 to 421.0 mg/L. Domestic and foreign beers were similar in terms of their fusel oil compositions and contents. In conclusion, excluding the diluted Soju, the contents of total fusel oils ranged from 114.8 to 1447.3 mg/L in the monitored liquors.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.371-376
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• 1986

This study to elucidate concentrations of impurities such as methanol and fusel oil formed during fermentation process among the different materials and has been applied technical seperation for processing improvement by continuous distillation of super-allospas type. Methanol was formed high concentrations of cutting dried sweet potato and tapioca in order among the different materials during fermentation process. n-Propanol oil was formed high concentration of rice, cutting dried sweet potato, corn, naked barley and tapioca in order among the those materials. I-Buthanol showed high concentration of tapioca, corn, rice, cutting dried sweet potato and naked barley in order and isoamyl-alcohol showed high concentration of tapioca, rice, cutting dried sweet potato, corn and naked barley in order. Using the continuous distillation of super-allospas type, the following are collection ratios of n-propanol, iso-butanol, n-butanol and iso-amylalcohol: 37.9％, 28.6％, 37.4％, and 56.1％ when 78.25％ (v/v), 68.54％ (viv), 50.0％ (viv), and 50.0％ (v/v) alcohol are used, respectively. Fusel oil and bad alcohol put into the recovery column and then seperated directly by side cut of fusel oil partially from plate of tower bottom after concentration again. Extra impurities seperated by fusel oil seperator when 20 ％ (v/v) alcohol adjusted with water.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.235-240
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• 1995

Volatile components and fusel oils of sojues and mashes brewed by four different traditional methods such as Andong soju, Moonbaeju, Leekangju, Jindo-hongju were studied. Fusel oil contents of mashes were in the range of $0.09{\sim}0.32{\;}mg/ml$, but those of sojues were increased to reach the range of $0.35{\sim}0.87{\;}mg/ml$. Fusel oil contents of Moonbaeju and Andong soju were lower than those of other sojues. Among fusel oils, iso-amyl alcohol content was highest in all sojues and mashes. Thirty-three volatile components were detected in mashes and distillates which were fermented for 16 days. Among them, seven alcohols, seven esters, four aldehydes and one acid were identified. Furfural that was not found in mashes were detected in four type of sojues. Mashes had more various volatile components than sojues had. Higher content of n-hexyl alcohol, acetic acid and phenethyl alcohol were found in mashes while more iso-amyl alcohol were found in sojues.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.24-37
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• 2008

Yeast with excellent ferment ability was isolated and selected from wild grape to manufacture wild grape wine. Wild grape wine by SMR-3 isolated from wild grape was better than other strains in quality, such as high alcohol content and low acidity, residual sugar, organic acid and fusel oil content. Fermentation condition was optimized to manufacture wild grape wine with response surface methodology using isolated SMR-3 as an alcohol fermentation strain. As a result of culture conditions, 10.61% of alcohol content was expected under the conditions of $21.91^{\circ}C$ fermenting temperature, $21.48^{\circ}brix$ of initial sugar content, and 14.65 day of fermentation time. Residual sugar content showed the lowest value at $24.48^{\circ}C$ fermentation temperature, $12.78^{\circ}brix$ of initial sugar content, and 9.02 day fermentation time. The highest level of sensory evaluation was found at $20.23^{\circ}C$ fermentation temperature, $25.30^{\circ}brix$ of initial sugar content, and 5.94 day fermentation time. Ethyl alcohol was the main alcohol component in wild grape wine and fusel oil in wild grape wine was hardly detected; thus, the quality of wild grape wine was considered excellent. The optimal fermentation conditions of wild grape wine was superimposed by deriving a regression equation for alcohol content, fusel oil, ethyl alcohol content, and overall palatability for each variable of wild grape wine. Hence, the optimal fermentation conditions are estimated to be: fermentation temperature $24{\sim}28^{\circ}C$, initial sugar content $20{\sim}24^{\circ}brix$, and fermenting time $12{\sim}14$ days.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 1994

Major quality parameters(organic acids, alcohols, fusel oil and sensory characteristics) of traditional Ewhaju were investigated during brewing. In organic acid contents at immediately after brewing, lactic acid was 155.1mg％, malonic acid was 5.4mg％, succinic acid was 8.9mg％, acetic acid was 7.6mg％, oxalic arid was 1.3mg％, citric and tartaric acid was 27.8mg％ and pyruvic acid was 4.8mg％ but in 100 days after brewing and one year aged, lactic acid was 1763.3 and 3059.3mg％, malonic acid was 12.3 and 19.3mg％, succinic acid was 11.5 and 23.1mg％, acetic acid was 29.2 and 73.1mg％, oxalic acid was 0.6 and 0.2mg％, citric and tartaric acid was 298.3 and 639.6mg％, and pyruvic acid were 1.1 and 0.3mg％, respectively. All the alcohol contents increased as the fermentation period increased ; the ethyl alcohol was only 0.05fe at immediately after brewing. In the alcohols content of Ewhaju at 100 days after brewing, the ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol n-propyl alcohol and iso-butyl alcohol were 5.13ft, 47.56 ppm, 37.25 ppm and 19.51 ppm, respectively, Also in the one year aged Ewhaju, the ethyl alcohol was 9.39f), methyl alcohol was 36.34 ppm, Fusel oil was not detected in the first stage of brewing, but it was detected 1.12mg％ at 100 days after brewing and 1.18mg％ at one year stored sample. A general trend in change of color was almost white immediatly after brewing but a increase in Hunter "b" value and "a" value were observed depending on brewing time prolonged. Taste and overall palatability of Ewhaju after 100 days of brewing were significantly superior(p<0.05, p<0.01).

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.433-437
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• 2012

The fusel oils and the volatile flavor compounds of two potato sojues, one of which was produced with the traditional distillation apparatus(soju-gori) and the other, with the reduced pressure distillation system, were examined. The fusel oil content was high in the potato soju that was distilled under reduced pressure (potato soju(II)). The relative ratio of the isoamyl alcohol to the isobutyl alcohol and the n-propanol was 3.1:0.8:1.0 in the potato soju that was distilled with soju-gori (potato soju(I)), and 4.0:1.2:1.0 in potato soju(II). The chromatograms of the volatile components apparently differed between potato soju(I) and potato soju(II). Potato soju(I) contained four kinds of alcohol, six kinds of ester, n-valeraldehyde, and acetic acid. Potato soju(II) contained seven kinds of alcohol, 14 kinds of ester, two kinds of aldehyde, acetic acid, and three other compounds. Potato soju(II) significantly scored higher for flavor property than potato soju(I).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.1206-1213
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• 2003

In order to use nutraceutical components in Yulmoo (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf), the acceptability of Yulmoo for Takju (Korean rice wine) was examined in terms of the production of volatile components. When Yulmoo was added to the Takju made by commercial koji as a substitute of starch at 0 (rice 100%), 15, 30, 60, and 100%, the ethanol content slightly increased to 13.6, 15.2, 15.2, 14.1, and 13.8%, the Production of isobutanol and iso-imyl alcohol increased as the amount of Yulmoo increased. While the use of Yulmoo to the Takju as the nuruk (Korean traditional koji), inoculated with Aspergillus kawachii (AK) and Rhizopu japonicus (RJ), decreased the contents of n-propanol, iso-butanol, and iso-amyl alcohol as well as the contents of ethanol from 14.3% to 11.2 [AK], 7.5 [RJ], and 10.4% [AK + RJ]. The Yulmoo nuruk in Takju increased the production of acetaldehyde and ethyl acetate indicating the negative effect in the organoleptic evaluation. It was determined that the addition of Yulmoo as a starch source or as nuruk has a critical effect on the production of fusel oils and other volatile compounds in Takju fermentation.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.279-283
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• 2003

The ADH-like and ALDH-like activities in the Hovenia extracts were studied. The Hovenia extracts have an high effects on the alcohol and acetealdehyde degradation. The ADH-like and ALDH-like activities in the Hovenia extract were $1.14\;unit/{\mu}{\ell}$, $0.33\;unit/{\mu}{\ell}$ respectively. The Hovenia extracts were decreased concertration of fusel oil by biochemical function of alcohol hydrolysis. In this study, antihepatotoxic and anticancer activity of Hovenia extracts were inviestigated. The ethanol extracts have a highest GST activity. Furthermore the growth of SNU-398 cancer cells were inhibited by the addition of Hovenia extracts. The culture media mixture to Hovenia extract of $1\;mg/m{\ell}$ was not observed connective cell and adhere to flat of liver cancer cell.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.45-48
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• 1992

In Food revolution of Korea, colorimetries or a titration methods are introduced for the analysis of alcoholic liquors. But, these wet analyses have disadvantages such as individual errors, long process time, and sometimes tedious pretreatments. In the process of making alcoholic liquors, fusel oils are produced as by products. Five main fusel components that could be produced are 2-propanol, n-propanol, iso-butanol, n-butanol, and isoamyl alcohol. Also acetaldehyde and methanol could be produced as by-products of ethanol. With using capillary FFAP column in GC or GC/MSD, we analysed these five fusel components as well as internal standard (acetonitrile) including methanol, acetaldehyde and ethanol simultaneously. We obtained excellent mass spectra as qualitative data of all species. We also took excellent quantitative data with GC by using the internal standard method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.497-506
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• 1996

Fermentation characteristics and quality changes of the typical Korean traditional alcoholic beverages (Kwahaju, Sokokju, Baikhaju, Samhaeju and Hosanchun) were investigated during fermentation and after aging, respectively. They were prepared by their own brewing methods with respect to the same contents of rice and Nuruk (Korean-style bran koji). The consumed total sugar content of the alcoholic beverages (Sokokju, Baikhaju, Samhaeju and Hosanchun) which were brewed with the multiple input steps of seed mash and raw material (ABMIS) was higher than that of the alcoholic beverage (Kwahaju) which was brewed with the single input step (ABSIS). The pH values of all the beverages were similar and were ranged from 3.2 to 3.6. The acidity of ABMIS were lower than that of ABSIS, but alcohol concentration of ABMIS were higher. The fermentation period of the alcoholic beverages with triple input steps was the longest among them. The inner temperature and microbial growth in all the beverages increased at each of input steps of the raw materials. Fusel oil content of ABMIS was lower than that of ABSIS. Major components of the fusel oil were iso-amyl alcohol, iso-butanol, n-propanol, ethyl acetate and acetaldehyde, and its minor components were methanol and n-butanol. The results on quality changes of the alcoholic beverages after aging showed increase of alcohol in ABMIS, but decrease of sugar and acidity. Fusel oil contents of Kwahaju and Samhaeju decreased to be ranged from 3.1% to 13.9% after aging, but those of Sokokju, Baikhaju and Hosanchun increased to be ranged from 10.9% to 23.0%. Sensory evaluation of ABMIS showed better scores than that of ABSIS. It was suggested that the brewing method with multiple input steps of seed mash and raw material was one of the methods to increase fermentation efficiency for brewing the Korean traditional alcoholic beverages.