• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2016

In this experiment, alcohol and blanching treatments were used for food packaging materials, quality of powder yam and sliced yams (5 mm size) were compared by alcohol concentration and time for measuring change of color, weight, moisture content saccharinity and decomposition. 5% and 10% alcohol were used to alcohol treatment for 5, 10 seconds each. Packaging materials were used OPP($30{\mu}m$), PET($25{\mu}m$), ON($25{\mu}m$) and all materials heat sealable were coated. Quality of powder yam were not changed during storage at low temperature however were changed during storage at room temperature after 5 days. In conclusion, powder yam were needed packaging materials with high water barrier property from moisture, sliced yams were high quality when packaged by ON and stored at low temperature. Therefore, using packaging materials with low oxygen permeability were expected to reduced quality degradation about browning of powder yam and sliced yams.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.36-40
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• 1995

Yam(Dioscorea) tubers were used as one of the dietary starches in Korea, China and Japan because of its characteristic properties. Yam tubers were powdered after freeze drying the sliced tubers to investigate carbohydrates. Chemical properties such as proximate components and carbohydrates were studied using three varieties of Korean yams, namely. D. batatas, D. aimadoimo and D. japonica. The proximate components of yam tubers showed that the major components of Korean yam tubers were carbohydrates and moisture. The main components of free sugars in yams were identified as fructose, glucose, sucrose and maltose. In addition to these four sugars, there were two unidentifiable peaks whose areas are too big to ignore. These results were obviously different from other reported data of free sugars in yams. The main components of total sugars were mannose and glucose.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.115-120
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• 2015

In this experiment, sliced yams (5 mm size) were used for research. Alcohol treatment and blanching treatment were used in this experiments. Color change, hardness, microorganism total count, and PPO activity of the packaged yam were measured. In result, colors of the treated yam were significantly changed in alcohol treatment with different concentration. 5% alcohol treatment is better than 10% alcohol treatment in browning inhibition of fresh-cut yam. But in blanching treatment, color change had no significant different. PPO activity of 1 min blanching packaged yam were decreased 50% and PPO activity of 5 min blanching packaged yam were decreased 85%. In the case of hardness were decreased in both experimental groups. especially 1 min, 3 min and 5 min blanching films, hardness were decreased more than 10 N. Also, both treatments are inhibited the growth of microorganisms effectively.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.384-388
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• 1996

This research was conducted to investigate the effective methods for browning inhibition on yam (Dioscorea aimadeimo) during dehydration by physical and chemical pretreatments. Moisture, crude protein, crude fiber and N-free extract contents of yam were 81.17%, 1.43%, 0.29% and 15.81%, respectively. Yams were sliced to 0.5 cm thickness and placed to single and poly layer in plastic tray, and then changes of their weights were measured during air dehydration at $50^{\circ}C,\;65^{\circ}C,\;and\;80^{\circ}C$. The dehydration time reaching to optimum moisture level for the pulverization of the yam slices were 10, 6, 3 hours(single layered) and 12, 7, 5 hours(multi layered) at the respective temperature. To inhibit browning at $80^{\circ}C$ air dehydration, water and steam blanching, microwave treatment effects were investigated on yam slices for 30 sec. and 60 sec. Steam blanching for 30 sec. was comparatively effective to inhibit browning of yam slices. Yam slices were immersed in single and combined browning inhibitor solutions and evaluated for browing degree during dehydration by the values of Hunter L, a, b and ${\Delta}E$. The most effective pretreatment to inhibit browning of yam slices was immersion In the solution containing 500 ppm of citric acid and 1000 ppm of cysteine for 1 min.