• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.259-264
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• 1995

To elucidate the effect on the quality of products, various components of ume fruit(Prunus mume)flesh of six species during development and maturation. The weigh and the rate of flesh of ume fruit was increased until maturation, except of small ume. The relative hardness of ume fruit flesh was 2.5~3.9 Kg and decreased at full ripe. The major organic acids of ume fruit flesh was citric acid and malic acid. Citric acid became increased, but malic acid was decreased during maturation and total content of that was increased during maturation Free sugars determined from the ume fruit flesh were fructose, glucose, sucrose. Ascorbic acid content was $0.6\sim2mg%$ in the ume fruit flesh. The contents of K and Ca were abundant minerals in ume fruit flesh.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.77-85
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• 1997

This study aims to determine the optimal picking time and the favorate variety for Ume processing. The changes of physicochemical components and flavors of 6 varieties of the Ume were investigated during maturing. Average weight of the fruit increased to the range of 151-292% from 70 days to 90 days after blooming. The hardness of fruit decreased during maturing and Koume variety was not suitable for processing among the last harvesting samples. Moisture and ash were reached to 89-91%, 0.57-0.69%, respectively, and the ash content increased during maturing. Among the Ume varieties, relatively high content of total acid was observed in Oshuku and Koume. The major organic acid were malic, citric, succinic, and tartaric acid. The content of malic acid decreased significantly, whereas citric acid increased during maturing. Thirty five kinds of flavor components were identified from the Ume fruit and main components were ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, and organic acid derivatives. Koume contained a large amount of flavor components among the Ume and the content increased during maturing.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.12 no.4 s.31
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• pp.213-224
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• 2006

This study was to investigate the factors affecting drinking Korean traditional beverages and the drinking habits of college students in Seoul. The research was carried out by asking them to drink 10 kinds of traditional drinks. They were composed of 45.5% of boys and 54.5% of girls who were $18\sim21$ years old, studying food related science (63.9%), and mostly (86.6%) living in a nuclear family in collective residents (60.4%) like an apartment. The number of students whose family's monthly incomes were over 3 million won was the largest as 37.1%. Their mothers were housewives (58.4%) mostly aged $46\sim50$ as 47.0%. In the research on the preference of students for the traditional drinks, most of them, 78.7%, showed their liking for the drinks because of their good taste (61.%). The number of students who answered they got the drinks by homemaking was the largest as 39.6%. Most of them, 66.3%, preferred fruit drinks, 19.8% soda drinks, 11.4% traditional drinks and 2.5% functional drinks. 31.2% of the drinks mostly taken at home was green tea, followed by sweet rice drink, Shik-hae. Among the drinks coming into the market, sweet rice drink was preferred in general as 25.7%, and the next was green tea 16.8%, ume drink (Maesil tea) 14.9%, rice tea 13.9%, fruit punch (Sujeonggwa) 11.4%, black tea 7.9%, honey tea 4.5%, ginseng tea 2.5% and jujube tea 2.5%. In the research on 'whether the students had experience preparing the traditional drinks or not', many of them, 62.4%, answered "No". And in the questionnaire asking on 'whether they liked to receive a training on making traditional drinks or not', 87.6% of them showed their wish to get the training. In the question on the reason why the students did not like to take the training on traditional drinks, the number of students who answered that it was complicated and hard to prepare was the largest as 53.0%.