Korean sliced rice cakes, or tteokguk, are conventionally dried and rehydrated during their preparation. In this study, the effects of the perforation process and various drying methods (e.g., hot-air drying, vacuum drying, low temperature drying, and freeze drying) on the quality characteristics of tteokguk (rice cake soup) were evaluated. In the experiment, the rehydration capacity and lightness increased as the pore number increased. The hardness, redness, and yellowness of tteokguk, in contrast, tended to decrease as perforations increased. The texture, taste, and overall acceptability scores of tteokguk increased as perforations increased. With respect to drying methods, the rehydration capacity was greatest for vacuum drying. The hardness of tteokguk was lowest for vacuum drying. The redness, yellowness, pH, and sensory characteristics did not differ significantly among tteokguk samples treated through various drying methods. These results suggest that high-quality ready-to-eat Korean sliced rice cakes could be created by perforation and vacuum drying.

The characteristics of extracts and precipitates after extraction at different water temperature (25, 50, 75, 95oC), ethanol ratio (25, 50, 75, 100%), and extraction method (stir, soak, autoclave) of yam powder and raw yam were investigated. The total polyphenol content was the highest in the 50% ethanol extract of yam powder. The DPPH radical scavenging activity was the highest in the 75% ethanol extraction and the crude saponin content was the highest in the 95oC water extraction. Tyrosinase inhibitory activity was the highest in 95oC water extraction, low concentration of ethanol extraction, and autoclave extraction. The peak viscosity, trough, and final viscosity of the precipitates increased after ethanol extraction, whereas decreased after the 95oC water extraction and the autoclave, indicating the destruction of starch granules. This was confirmed by observing the starch granules broken using the SEM. The significance of this study was to investigate the possibility of the use of yam resources as a material, processing product development, skin beauty functional food and cosmetic material.

Although rice production gradually increased in Korea, rice consumption has been significantly reduced during the last decade. To increase rice consumption, it is necessary to develop a wide range of rice-processed foods and functional rice materials. In association with digestion in rice-functional materials, people are interested in resistant starch (RS). The purpose of this study was to develop the citrated organic rice flour by dry process with different treatments and to investigate its physicochemical properties. Citric acid (0, 20, 30, 40% dry basis) was mixed with organic rice flour and reacted at 105oC and 150oC for 5 h. The degree of substitution increased with increasing citric acid concentration and reaction temperature. In DSC, when reacted at 105oC, onset temperature gradually decreased with increasing citric acid concentration but no DSC thermal characteristics were observed when reacted at 150oC. Relative crystallinity determined by XRD did not greatly change at 105oC but dramatically decreased at 150oC. As citric acid concentration and reaction temperature increased, rapidly digestible starch, slowly digestible starch, and total starch decreased but RS significantly increased. Therefore, RS content in organic rice flour increased with dryprocessed citric acid treatment and this could be applicable to produce functional foods for diabetes.

The physiochemical properties of dried yam (Dioscorea batatas) by freeze dryer, cold-air dryer or hot-air dryer were examined for chromaticity, water absorption index (WAI), water soluble index (WSI), rehydration, viscosity properties and pasting properties. Freeze dried yam was maintained higher degree of lightness and higher WAI and WSI than those of cold-air or hot air dried one. In the case of rehydration, freeze dried yam was restored within one hour. The viscosity properties of freeze dried yam were the highest viscosity in all shear rates. Freeze dried yam was milled by roll mill (RM), pin mill (PM) or jet mill (JM) to evaluate for particle size, starch damage, pasting property and microstructure. Particle size was JM < PM < RM as 13.85~112.50 μm. In the result of starch damage, it was the highest value as 8.83 in JM, was the lowest value as 7.47 in RM. In pasting property, JM had relatively low viscosity at all shear rates. In the Microstructure by measuring scanning electron microscope, JM particle surfaces were rough with high starch damage, and particle size was confirmed fine particles in JM.

The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal mixing ratio of olive oil, parmesan cheese, and nuts for preparation of pesto with spinach. Based on a surface response methodology (RSM), the independent variables were olive oil (100~300 g), parmesan cheese (25~75 g) and nuts (12~36 g). The dependent variables were physico-chemical properties as pH, color values (L, a, and b values), viscosity and sensory evaluation. pH decreased with increasing parmesan cheese levels. The L value decreased and the a and b values increased with increasing olive oil levels. Viscosity was negatively correlated with olive oil levels but positively correlated with the amounts of parmesan cheese and nuts. The addition of oil exerted a positive effect on gloss, and oily taste. In the sensory evaluation, the values of appearance, color, flavor, taste and overall acceptance were in the range of 4.4~7.2, 3.7~7.4, 4.4~7.1, 3.9~7.3 and 3.5~7.6, respectively. The sensory evaluation results showed significant values in appearance (p<0.01), flavor (p<0.01), taste (p<0.01) and overall acceptance (p<0.05). The optimal amounts of spinach pesto with olive oil, parmesan cheese, and nuts were determined by numerical optimization of a canonical model and graphical optimization. The optimal amounts were 175.29 g of olive oil, 49.51 g parmesan cheese, and 27.37 g of nuts per 100 g of spinach.

The objective of this study was to increase starch extraction efficiency from domestic potato by five kinds of foodgrade cellulases (mixture of β-glucanases, pectinase, cellulase, hemicelullase, and β-glucosdiase). Cellulase-treated potato had a maximum of 40% higher starch extraction yield than non-enzyme treated potato. It turned out that the shape and structure of cellulose-treated and nonenzyme-treated potatoes were the same. The average particle size of cellulose-treated potato starch was smaller than non-enzyme treated potato. Interestingly, the small starch granular (<10 μm particle) was shown in extracted starch from cellulose-treated potato. Rapid viscosity analysis showed that starch from cellulase treated potato had lower pasting temperature than starch from nonenzyme-treated potato. The range of the gelatinization temperature (49-62oC) of starches from cellulose-treated potato was broader than that of starches from nonenzyme-treated potato. Therefore, the results of this study confirm that cellulase plays an important role in the extraction of starch from the potato and physicochemical characteristics of potato starch.

POCl3 농도(0.005%, 0.02%)를 달리한 가교화 쌀전분에 PO(2%, 6%, 12%)를 처리하여 가교화 후하이드록시프로필화(CLHP) 쌀전분을 제조하고, 변성된 CLHP 쌀전분의 용해도, 팽윤력, RVA, DSC 특성을 연구하였다. 팽윤력은 일반 쌀전분 보다 다소 낮은 온도에서 일찍 증가되기 시작하였으나 그 이후에 모두 낮은 수치를 보여 CLHP 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 완만한 상승을 나타내었고 용해도는 CLHP 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 전체적으로 낮은 결과를 나타내었다. RVA 분석결과 CLHP 쌀전분의 최고점도는 일반 쌀전분보다 낮아졌고 holding strength와 final viscosity는 높은 경향을 나타내었고, breakdown은 낮아지고 setback 은 높은 것으로 나타났다. DSC 분석 결과 CLHP 쌀전분의 To, Tp, Tc가 일반 쌀전분보다 낮게 나타났으며, ΔH 역시 작은 값을 보였으며 POCl3 함량에 따른 차이, 즉 가교화에 의한 차이는 크지 않았다. 따라서 가교화 후 하이드록시프로필화 한 쌀전분의 경우 RVA점도 특성은 가교화에 의한 영향이 크고 하이드록시프로필화에 따른 영향이 작다고 볼 수 있었으며, DSC열적특성은 가교화에 의한 영향으로 하이드록시프로필화가 원활하지 않았던 것으로 생각된다. 즉 인산기에 의해 강해진 전분 입자에 의해 하이드록시프로필기의 치환이 덜 일어난 것으로 판단된다.

치환제인 PO 농도(2%, 6%, 12%)를 달리하여 제조한 하이드록시프로필화 쌀전분에 가교제인 POCl3 농도(0.005%, 0.02%)를 달리하여 처리한 HPCL 쌀전분을 제조하고, HPCL 쌀전분의 용해도, 팽윤력, pasting 특성 및 열적 특성을 연구하였다. 팽윤력은 일반 쌀전분 보다 다소 낮은 온도에서 증가되기 시작하였으나 그 이후는 모두 낮은 수치를 보여 HPCL 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 완만한 상승을 나타내었다. 용해도는 HPCL 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 전체적으로 낮은 값을 나타내었다. 한편 PO 함량이 증가할수록 팽윤력과 용해도 모두 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. RVA pasting분석 결과, HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 일반 쌀전분보다 최고 점도는 낮아졌고 holding strength와 final viscosity는 높은 경향을 나타내었으며, breakdown은 낮아지고 setback은 높은 것으로 나타났다. 열적 특성 분석 결과 HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 일반 쌀 전분보다 낮은 To, Tp, Tc 및 ΔH를 나타내었으며, POCl3 함량이 적을수록 감소폭이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 RVA pasting 특성은 PO 첨가량, 즉 하이드록시프로필화에 따른 영향이 크다고 볼 수 있고 DSC 열적특성은 하이드록시프로필화 및 가교화 모두 영향을 미치는 것으로 생각된다.