• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-101
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• 1999

This study was carried out to prepare green teas by traditional roasting manufacturing process, Ku Geung Ku Po and to determine the quality charateristics of the green teas by examining the change of their main components induced during this roasting process. The content of total sugars in unroasted tea leaves was 7.82%. Its content of roasted teas was decreased by increasing the number of roasting and there was significantly differences between samples. The content of total sugars in 9th roasted green tea was 3.98%. The total nitrogen contents of green teas produced by this process were 4.96∼6.38%. The more the number of roasting and the less content of tannin in green teas. And the ratio of total nitrogen and tannin in tea leaves 21.97 but its ratio in 9th roasted tea was increased to 45.54. The ascorbic acid in tea leaves consisted in 1,820.3 mg/100g but its content was decreased by increasing the number of roasting process. Whereas the content of caffeine in green teas was not reduced significantly by this traditional method. Of all amino acids, green tea produced by Ku Jeung Ku Po was rich glutamic acid, lysine and aspartic acid. And especially, phenylalanine, which was rarely found in other green teas, was abundant in these green teas. The compositions of glutamic acid and methionine were increased as increasing the number of roasting process but those of aspartic acid and arginine decreased by these processing. The main fatty acids of Ku Jeung Ku Po green tea were linolenic acid, linoleic acid and palmitic acid and the contents of unsaturated fatty acid in green teas were composed over 70% of total fatty acid. And the fatty acid contents in green teas were not affected during Ku Jeung Ku Po's process. The contents of minerals in these teas was rich in the oder of potassuim. magnessuim and calciumim, and these contents were not observed the prominant change during the process.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.156-160
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• 2004

This study was carried out to examine the changes of chlorophyll a and b contents by the extraction temperatures and the number of soaking using five kinds of Korean green teas(3 kinds of green tea and 2 kinds of tea bag) which were obtained from a local market in Daegu city, Korea. The chlorophylls were extracted with 80% acetone, and determined by a visible spectrophotometer. The concentration of chlorophyll in Sulrok(tea bag) were the highest among all kinds of teas when they were extracted at 60, and decreased with the number of soaking increased. On the other hand, the chlorophyll content of green teas was the highest at 80, and decreased with the increase of the number of soaking as the tea bag did. It was found that the Korean tea bag contained more chlorophyll than green teas did, and green teas contained significantly more chlorophyll b than chlorophyll a.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.228-234
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• 2022

Various types of tea have been cultivated to obtain different flavors and enhance their functional properties. The objective of this study was to investigate the physicochemical properties of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) teas produced from commercial Korean green, white, and black teas. The concentration of total minerals was reduced in GABA green tea and GABA white tea but was improved in GABA black tea. The essential, non-essential, and total free amino acid contents were remarkably increased in the GABA teas. The amino acid GABA content was increased by 561.00 and 294.20 times in GABA white tea and GABA black tea, respectively. The antioxidant potential was not reduced, although the total polyphenol and total flavonoid contents decreased in GABA green tea and GABA black tea. The results indicated that the overall nutritional value of commercial green, white, and black teas could be improved by processing them into GABA teas.

• Horticultural Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.519-526
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• 2012

Anaerobic treated green teas were sealed with aluminum pack and stored for 12 months at three different temperatures such as 25, 4, or $-10^{\circ}C$. Anaerobic green teas were evaluated with respect to physiochemical properties and physiological functions. The longer anaerobic green teas were stored, their total nitrogen, tannins, or chlorophyll contents were reduced. Especially, the lower storage temperature of green tea resulted in less loss of physiochemical contents in green tea. Since green teas stored at $-10^{\circ}C$ exhibited less loss of physiochemical contents, compared to green teas stored at 25 or $4^{\circ}C$. The qualities of green teas stored at $-10^{\circ}C$ for 12 months were similar with those of teas stored at $4^{\circ}C$ for 8 months or stored at $25^{\circ}C$ for 4 months. Since 'a' value (green color) of green tea was considered as an important criteria to evaluate the tea quality. Anaerobic teas stored for 12 months were monitored their 'a' color values with -12.40 (fresh one), -10.54 ($-10^{\circ}C$), -9.77 ($4^{\circ}C$), and -9.06 ($25^{\circ}C$). Sensory evaluation results showed that anaerobic teas at $-10^{\circ}C$ were more favored than those at or 4 or $25^{\circ}C$. In conclusion, optimum storage temperature for anaerobic green teas should be $-10^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.20-20
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• 1995

The aroma components of commercial green teas picked inAugust were collected and identified. The extract of aroma compounds in green tea were accoimplished by a modified rotary evaporation. The concentrated wxtracts were analyzed and identified by GC and GC-MS. In GC analysis, T$_{R}$ value of GC represented bt KI value which standardized. The most abundant components of green teas picked in August were 1-Penten-3-ol, trans, trans-2, 4-heptadienal, linalool, $\beta$-ionone and nerolidol.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.76-80
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• 1995

The aroma components of commercial green teas picked inAugust were collected and identified. The extract of aroma compounds in green tea were accoimplished by a modified rotary evaporation. The concentrated wxtracts were analyzed and identified by GC and GC-MS. In GC analysis, T$_{R}$ value of GC represented bt KI value which standardized. The most abundant components of green teas picked in August were 1-Penten-3-ol, trans, trans-2, 4-heptadienal, linalool, $\beta$-ionone and nerolidol.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.222-226
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• 2004

Hydrocarbons induced by gamma-irradiation of green, black, and oolong teas were analyzed to determine whether the hydrocarbons can be used as markers for detecting post-irradiation of these teas. The samples were irradiated at 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10 kGy. Detection was attempted by extracting fat from the teas, separation of hydrocarbons with florisil column chromatography, and identification of hydrocarbons by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). Concentration of hydrocarbons increased with the irradiation dose. The major hydrocarbons in irradiated green, black, and oolong teas were 1-tetradecence (14:1), pentadecane (15:0), 1,7-hexadecadiene (16:2), 1-hexadecene (16:1), 8-heptadecene (17:1), and heptadecane (17:0). Radiation-induced hydrocarbons in teas were 1,7-hexadecadiene and 8-heptadecene. These compounds were not detected in non-irradiated samples, so the hydrocarbons (16:2, 17:1) can be used as markers for detecting post-irradiation of the teas. Furthermore, detection of hydrocarbons after 12 months storage at room temperature remains a suitable method for identifying irradiated teas.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.407-412
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• 2011

Free and bound aroma compounds in green and fermented teas treated with microbial-fermentation were analyzed using headspace-solid phase microextraction gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry. Aldehydes and ketones in green tea decreased during microbial fermentation, whereas linalool and geraniol increased in the fermented tea. After enzyme treatment, (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol increased significantly following enzymatic hydrolysis of both green and fermented teas. In addition, benzaldehyde, 3-hexenyl acetate, and geraniol also increased in green tea with enzyme treatment. Bound aroma compounds in the green and fermented teas increased at different levels of added enzyme. We demonstrated the enhancement of both green and fermented teas by enzyme treatment, which can lead to improvement in the flavor qualities of green and fermented teas.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.322-328
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• 2006

Green tea is of particular source as it has been found to have strong antioxidant activities. The extracts of green tea during the commercial harvest seasons from April, 2003 to August, 2003 were compared. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between the polyphenol content of green teas and its antioxidant activities. The con-tent of total polyphenols was analyzed and several antioxidant testings were performed. The levels of total polyphenols were higher in the green teas (e.g. Woojeon, Sejak) harvested during very early spring and lower in the green teas harvested late(eg. Ipha, Yepcha). In particular, the free radical scavenging, the inhibition of LDL oxidation, the cytoprotective effect and the inhibition of DNA damage were correlated with the total polyphenol contents of green tea extracts harvested early spring such as Woojeon, Sejak and Jungjak. The results obtained here show that all extracts of green teas including purified green tea catechin, GTC, have strong antioxidant activities on oxidative stress in vifrθ. The variation in polyphenol content and antioxidant activities among various types of green tea by the harvesting time may provide critical information for investigators and consumers using tea in purposes of nutrition and chemoprevention.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.63 no.2
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• pp.78-84
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• 2019

High-resolution $^1H$ NMR spectroscopic technique has been widely used as one of the most powerful analytical tools in food chemistry as well as to define molecular structure. The $^1H$ NMR spectra-based metabolomics has focused on classification and chemometric analysis of complex mixtures. The principal component analysis (PCA), an unsupervised clustering method and used to reduce the dimensionality of multivariate data, facilitates direct peak quantitation and pattern recognition. Using a combination of these techniques, the various green teas and black teas brewed were investigated via metabolite profiling. These teas were characterized based on the leaf size and country of cultivation, respectively.