Rice is a major food source that has been cultivated in Southeast Asia including Korea and forms the basis of dietary life, but rice consumption is continuously decreasing due to westernized dietary life. In order to solve this problem, the developmen...
Rice is a major food source that has been cultivated in Southeast Asia including Korea and forms the basis of dietary life, but rice consumption is continuously decreasing due to westernized dietary life. In order to solve this problem, the development of processed rice foods is being actively progressed to increase the processing rate of rice and to respond to the trend of convenience and westernized dietary changes. Rice processed foods are limited to rice flour products, simple processed products, and beverages using rice. On the other hand, lactic acid bacteria fermented foods are mostly milkbased dairy products and have problems due to lactose intolerance or allergies.
This study attempted to develop a lactic acid bacteria fermented beverage using rice in accordance with the global trend of vegan food using rice with the least allergy among grains. Therefore, for the fermentation of lactic acid bacteria, the selection and identification of bacteria suitable for fermentation of lactic acid bacteria, optimization of the medium, and establishment of the conditions for fermentation of lactic acid bacteria were established. In order to apply the lactic acid bacteria fermentation conditions to various rice varieties, the pretreatment process of rice was optimized and the lactic acid bacteria fermentation process was established to present basic data for industrialization of processed rice fermented foods.
Rice, the main raw material used for fermentation of lactic acid bacteria, was produced and sold by varieties (Non-waxy rice, waxy rice, black rice, and red rice) provided by Soybean Food. Among non-waxy rice, the content of resistant starch in Saegoami (25.7%) and Dodam (35.1%), which have a high amylose content, was found to be 0.54% and 8.67%, respectively, but after gelatinization, the content of resistant starch decreased sharply to less than 1%. It was confirmed that the function of resistance starch disappeared. Rice pretreatment was performed using liquefied enzymes (Termamyl, Fungamyl) and glycosylated enzymes (AMG) to establish optimal conditions. The a-amylase activity of the liquefaction enzymes Termamyl and Fungamyl was found to be 340.0 and 356.4 KU/mg, respectively, and the glucosidase activity of AMG was 805.9 U/mg. Of the two liquefaction enzymes, Fungamyl was selected as the liquefaction enzyme because Fungamyl had a higher reaction rate than Termamyl under the same conditions. In the case of Fungamyl treatment, the amount of reducing sugar produced was optimized at 0.025% (v/v) or higher, whereas in the case of AMG, the amount of reducing sugar produced tended to increase as the treatment amount increased. Since 96% saccharification of rice starch was achieved with 28.9 g/L, the optimum treatment amount of each enzyme was 0.025% Fungamyl and 0.25% AMG. As a result of the individual and mixed treatment of 0.025% Fungamyl and 0.25% AMG, the same effect as the mixed treatment was confirmed even with a single treatment of AMG, and the enzyme treatment for the pretreatment of rice was decided as AMG treatment. The properties of starch change of reactants by liquefaction and saccharification were confirmed using sugar analysis and molecular weight analysis methods.
The contents of flavonoids and polyphenols, which are functional ingredients of rice by variety, were mainly found in black rice and red rice.
Changes in physiologically active substances according to the pretreatment of rice were analyzed in small amounts of flavonoids, polyphenol compounds, and antioxidants in non-waxy rice and waxy rice, but antioxidants were 3,255 and 141 mg% in mixed samples, respectively, in black rice and red rice, which are colored rice. Black rice showed the highest value of 3,473, 153 mg%, and saccharification at 3,418 and 157 mg%, respectively. This is the same pattern as polyphenol compounds, and when gelatinization to saccharification proceeds, black rice decreases and red rice increases.
Important lactic acid bacteria in rice yogurt fermentation are yogurt starters commercially available for spawning: Hanmiyogurtting Powder (HANMI), Lyofast SAB 440 B (SACCO), HANSEN ABT-4, HANSEN YC-381 4 types and 2 isolates (Isolate 1, 2) was used, and as a result of culturing for 36 hours using pretreated rice, the number of lactic acid bacteria in Isolate 1 directly separated from the yogurt starter (HANMI) was good at 3.10×10 8 and 3.95×10 8
CFU/mL, respectively. Was less than 10 6 CFU/mL. The selected lactic acid bacteria HANMI and Isolate 1 were purely separated from the fermented product and identified using API kit and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. As a result, HANMI was identified as L. plantarum and Isolate 1 as L. harbinensis. In the case of L. plantarum, a standard strain was distributed and used from KCTC. In order to optimize the basic medium for the two lactic acid bacteria, glucose, which is a saccharified product of rice, and yeast extract for food were selected as the basic composition. The optimum concentrations of carbon and nitrogen sources for the growth of two lactic acid bacteria species and production of metabolites (lactic acid and acetic acid) were identified as 2.5% (w/v) glucose and 1% (v/v) yeast extract, respectively, and the optimum temperature was 37 ◦ C, and the initial pH was determined to be 6.0. As a result of fermentation of lactic acid bacteria using individual lactic acid bacteria and mixed lactic acid bacteria under optimal medium composition and culture conditions, the number of viable bacteria and lactic acid/acetic acid maintained 10 8 CFU/mL, 8.8 g/L, 0.8 g/L or more, The mixed culture of L.
harbinensis and L. plantarum was excellent.
Lactobacillus fermentation was performed using 3% (w/v) rice and 1% yeast extract to meet the conditions similar to the optimal carbon source (2.5% glucose) for fermentation of lactic acid bacteria. Lactobacillus fermentation using glucose and lactobacillus fermentation pretreated with non-waxy rice were similar in growth and production of metabolites. In the case of lactic acid bacteria fermentation using black rice and red rice containing functional ingredients, when using black rice, metabolites were produced up to 1.9 times more than non-waxy rice and the number of viable bacteria was maintained. In particular, in the case of red rice, about 20 hours of lag time existed after the inoculation of lactic acid bacteria, and overall fermentation results between non-waxy rice and black rice were obtained. In the case of fermentation of lactic acid bacteria using rice, the best results were obtained when black rice was used.