This study examined the quality characteristics of yanggaeng with rice germ; it was incorporated into yanggaeng at different levels (containing 5% rice germ, 10% rice germ, 15% rice germ, and 20% rice germ) based on the total weight of red bean extracts. For analyzing the quality characteristics of yanggaeng, moisture content, hardness, color, antioxidant activity, total polyphenol content, reducing sugar, and vitamin E were determined. There was no significant difference in the moisture content and hardness except in the control. For color, lightness and yellowness of yanggaeng increased as the concentration of the powder was increased, whereas there was no significant difference in redness. As the rice germ powder was increased, total polyphenol content and antioxidant activity increased significantly, whereas reducing sugar decreased. Especially, total vitamin E, including isomers, increased as the concentration of the powder increased from 0.41 mg/100 g to 4.03 mg/100 g. Therefore, it could be possible to develop processed products with functional snack for yanggaeng prepared by adding 10% rice germ.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the antioxidative and physical properties of finger food type rice snacks and pumpkin rice snacks for infants aged 6 to 12 months old. The addition of rice germ did not affect density or porosity, and there was no significant difference when compared with commercial products. The addition of rice germ to the rice snack group did not reduce the longitudinal expansion quality of the rice snack. The WAI of RW and SW values were 9.83 and 8.93, respectively, which were significantly higher than those of other samples (p<0.05). The results of this study show that the addition of rice germ to rice snack resulted in reduced density and porosity of rice snacks and maintenance of a high water absorption index, which are more desirable characteristics for products. The products with rice germ showed significantly higher antioxidative activities among all samples (p<0.05).

This study investigated the quality characteristics and biological activities of rice germ fermented by Bacillus spp. During the milling process, the contents of rice germ in the rice bran (Control) were adjusted to 30% (RG30) and 70% (RG70). The approximate composition, pH, total acidity, total soluble solid, total sugar, polyphenol and flavonoid contents were measured. DPPH radical scavenging activity, xanthine oxidase (XO) and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activities were also determined. We observed that the moisture content decreased after fermentation, while the crude protein was significantly increased. Fermentation remarkably lowered the pH from 5.83~6.26 to 4.77~4.93, thereby elevating the total acidity. Fermentation also increased the total solid contents, from 0.40~0.87 °Bx to 1.63~2.20 °Bx. The total sugar decreased to 136.81~151.53 mg/mL from 377.56~450.64 mg/mL. Polyphenol contents were the highest in control (0.59 and 0.73 mg/mL before and after fermentation, respectively). Fermentation significantly affected the increase of the polyphenols in both rice germ 30% and 70% samples, from 0.26 and 0.28 mg GAE/g before fermentation, to 0.52 and 0.70 mg GAE/g after fermentation, respectively. There was a slight increase in the flavonoid contents after fermentation. The IC50 value of the electron donating ability, as evaluated by the DPPH method, was the lowest in control (3.77 and 3.36 mg/mL before and after fermentation, respectively). Fermentation increased the XO inhibition activity up to 63.69% in control, 49.81% in rice germ 30%, and 59.32% in rice germ 70%. The ACE inhibition activities were also increased in the fermented control, rice germ 30% and 70%, to 40.51%, 22.69% and 33.91%, respectively.

Plenty of variations in nutritional, morphological and agronomic traits occur in the pigmented rice germplasm. The current study was conducted to evaluate the growth characteristics of 71 pigmented rice genotypes having different origin taking one Korean landrace (Heugjinjubyeo) as control. Amongst the twenty eight growth characters studied; leaf length, leaf width, ligule length, panicle length and panicles per hill showed a higher degree of variance. The heading dates of the pigmented rice germ plasm were distributed from Aug. 1 to Sep. 28. Thirty five cultivars that headed or flowered in August were found adaptable for cultivation in Korea. The mean culm length and panicle length were significantly higher than Heugjinjubyeo but most of cultivars having strong or middle of culm strength made it possible to produce the stable yield. Some cultivars showed unique qualitative characters such as openness of culm angle, purple ligule, auricle, awn and glume colors, poor panicle exsertion and long empty glume. Nine cultivars including Heugjinjubyeo showed purple seed coat color while those of the others (62 cultivars) were of red seed coat.

Significant variations occur in pigmented rice germplasm with respect to their antioxidant potential. Therefore this study was designed to evaluate the antioxidant potential of exotic rice germplasm collected from different parts of the globe. Grain samples of exotic rice germ plasm (21 0 accessions) were collected from different countries of Asia, America and Europe and their ground grain samples were extracted with 80% methanol at 30 oc using sonicater for 30 minutes to estimate their total polyphenol and flavonoids contents and antioxidant activity. Rice germplasm had tremendous variations with respect to total polyphenols (0.0800.71 mg g- 1) and falvonoid contents (0.091 00.413 mg g" 1 ) and antioxidant activity (18096%). Rice cultivars with red and black seed coat had higher antioxidant activity owing to significantly higher polyphenols and falvonoid contents in their grains. Therefore rice cultivars with red and black seed coat color should be included in breeding rice genotypes with higher nutritional value.

본 연구에서는 미강과 배아로부터의 β-glucan 추출 공정 최적화를 위해 반응표면 분석법으로 모니터링하였다. 중심합성계획법에 따라 추출 온도(X1), 추출 시간(X2), 추출 온도(X3)를 요인변수(Xn)로 하고 미강 추출물의 전자공여능(Y1), 배아 추출물의 전자공여능(Y2), 미강 추출물의 total phenolics(Y3), 배아 추출물의 total phenolics(Y4), 미강 추출물의 β-glucan 함량(Y5), 배아 추출물의 β-glucan 함량(Y6)을 종속변수로 하여 시행하였다. 실험 결과 미강 추출물의 전자공여능도는 추출 온도에 영향을 받음을 알 수 있었다. 안장점에서 추출 조건은 추출 온도는 60.41oC, 추출 시간은 2.75 min, 에탄올 농도 92.60%로 예측되었으며 이 때 84.02%로 비교적 높은 항산화 활성을 보여주었다. 배아 추출물의 전자공여능도의 안장점에서 추출 조건은 추출 온도 54.40oC, 추출 시간 2.23 min, 에탄올 농도 87.52%였다. 미강 추출물의 total phenolics는 추출 온도와 에탄올 농도에 영향을 크게 받은 것으로 나타났고 안장점에서 추출 조건은 추출 온도 40.26oC, 추출 시간 6.69 min, 에탄올 농도 98.56%로 예측되었고 배아 추출물의 total phenolics는 최소점에서 추출 온도 53.67oC, 추출 시간 9.19 min, 에탄올 농도 95.73%에서 최대값을 나타내었다. 미강 추출물의 β-glucan 함량은 안장점일 때 추출 조건이 추출 온도 64.69oC, 추출 시간 7.70 min, 에탄올 농도 96.23%로 나타났다. 배아 추출물의 β-glucan 함량은 추출 시간에 영향을 크게 받았으며 최소점에서 추출 온도 50.03oC, 추출 시간 2.10 min, 에탄올 농도 87.82%에서 미강 추출물에서보다 더 높은 최대값을 나타내었다.

국내에서 버려지는 쌀눈활용을 위한 기초연구로 쌀눈의 화삭성분들을 분석하였다. 일반성분은 수분 8.69%, 조지방 21.18%, 조단백질 16.50%, 조섬유 2.95%, 조회분 6.23%, 그리고 당질함량은 44.45%로 나타났다. 유리당은 maltose, glucose, fructose가 있었으며 각각 569.00, 68.80, 50.20mg/100g함유되어 있었다. 아미노산함량은 글루탐산이 1920.09mg/100g, 아르기닌이 15.03mg/100g, 아스파르트산이 1208.7mg/100g, 알라닌이 1001.2mg/100g으로 가장 많이 함유되어 있었으며, 함황아미노산인 시스틴과 메티오닌은 적었다. 무기질 조성은 8종류의 무기성분들이 검출되었으며 칼륨과 인이 각각 가장 많은 1217.80, 1766.22mg/100g이었으며 칼슘, 망감, 나트륨이 각각 36.60, 16.74, 16.22mg/100g으로 많았으며, 아연, 철, 구리도 각각 11.75, 7.99, 1.16mg/100g이 들어 이었다. 비타민함량은 5가지의 수용성 비타민과 지용성비타민이 토코페롤이 함유되어 있었으며, 비타민 E가 11.96mg/100g으로 가장 많았고 B1과 B2는 각각 5.69mg/100g, 0.45mg/100g였으며 비타민 C는 1.66mg/100g 그리고 나이아신과 비타민 B6는 각각 2.96mg/100g, 0.69mg/100g였다. 지방산은 6가지 종류의 지방산이 함유되어 있었으며, 주지방산은 linoleic acid와 oleic acid로 전체지방산의 약 64%를 차지하고 있다. 또한 모든 유지류에 널리 분포되어 있는 palmitic acid가 22.2%였으며, arachidic acid도 3.1%였다. 16종의 flavonoid와 9종의 phenolic acid를 screening한 결과 쌀눈에서는 검출되지 않았다.