초록
풋땅콩의 고유특성을 유지하고 영양성분의 손실과 변패에 의한 상품성 하락을 방지하면서 장기간 안전하게 저장할 수 있는 풋땅콩 냉동가공제품을 개발하기 위하여 건조용 땅콩의 일반수확기보다 20-30일 정도 이른 9월 10일경에 조기 수확한 대풍땅콩, 대광땅콩 및 신대광땅콩을 10$0^{\circ}C$ 수증기로 5분간 쪄서 효소를 불활성화 시키고 방냉한 후 0.08mm P.V.D.C 필름봉지에 감압밀봉포장 하고 -7$0^{\circ}C$의 초저온냉동고에 24시간동안 급속동결시킨 후 다시 -2$0^{\circ}C$의 일반냉동저장고에 옮겨 2개월간 저장 후 그 품질특성을 조사하였다. 냉동풋땅콩은 건조땅콩에 비하여 수분함량이 30% 이상 높고, 경도가 낮아 조직이 유연하며 유리당을 0.12-0.36% 함유하여 물성과 맛이 좋았다. 저장 중 내피의 수용성 탄닌이 불용화되어 껍질채 먹을 수 있고, 건조땅콩보다 산가가 1/5 수준으로 낮았으며 식미에 있어서도 공시 3품종 모두 보통 이상으로 나타나 고품질 대중건강식품으로 활용될 수 있을것으로 판단되었다.
Freeze storage technique is widely used for food processing to keep freshness and quality of the product. This technique was applied to fresh, unshelled groundnut to develop a new type of product which could maintain fresh taste and nutritive values even after several months of storage. The groundnut varieties, Daepungtangkong, Daekwangtangkong and Sindaekwangtangkong were grown at the experimental field of NCES in 1996. Immatured pods or groundnut were harvested around 20 to 3o days before full maturity, washed, and steamed at 100$^{\circ}C$ for 5 min. to stop enzyme activity. After vacuum packing (at -760mmHg for 10 min.) with 0.08mm polyvinyldichloride film, the pods were immediately frozen at -70$^{\circ}C$ for 24h and transfered at -20$^{\circ}C$ for long-term storage. Physico-chemical properties of frozen vegetable groundnut were investigated at 2 months after storage and compared to those of conventionally dried groundnut. After 2 months storage, the thawed kernels were very palatable with softness and fresh taste. Acid value and hardness (measured as the compression force on the probe of a texture analyzer) were much lower in frozen vegetable groundnut than those in the air-dried ones. Presence of free sugars is one of the important factors affecting groundnut taste, and the free sugar contents were considerably decreased in the frozen vegetable groundnut compared to freshly harvested groundnut. But in dried groundnut no free sugar was detected.
