• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.241-245
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• 2003

기능성 발효음료를 개발하기 위하여 홍차, 감잎차, 솔잎, 쑥, 눈꽃 동충하초와 번데기 동충하초의 균사체와 자실체를 부재료로 첨가한 배지에 tea-fungus를 접종하여 3$0^{\circ}C$에서 2주일간 발효시킨 tea-fungus 음료를 조제하였다. Tea-fungus 음료의 기능성을 조사하기 위하여 음료의 원액과 그 5배 희석액으로 나누어 항균활성, 항산화능과 아질산염소거능을 조사하였다. Tea-fungus 음료의 항균활성은 솔잎과 눈꽃동충하초의 균사체와 자실체를 첨가한 경우에 E. coli와 S. aureus에 대하여 모두 우수한 항균활성을 나타내었으나 감잎차를 첨가한 음료는 항균활성을 나타내지 않았다. Tea-fungus 음료의 5배 희석액은 두 균주 모두에 대하여 항균활성을 나타내지 않았다. 음료의 전자공여능은 41-87%, 5배로 희석한 tea-fungus음료는 11-63%로서 솔잎과 감잎차를 첨가한 음료의 전자공여능이 높았고, 번데기동충하초의 균사체와 자실체를 첨가한 음료에서 낮았다. Tea-fungus 음료의 아질산염소거능홍차를 첨가한 음료에서 63%, 감잎차 44%로서 높았으며 다른 부재료를 첨가한 경우에는 전체적으로 낮은 소거능을 나타내었다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.165-169
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• 2000

Kombucha beverages were made from sweetened tea by Oriental, European and Tibetan tea fungus starters. The hot water extracts o green tea, black tea, Gugija and Omija were mixed with white and/or brown sugar, and were fermented under a static culture at 3$0^{\circ}C$. Titrable acidity, pH, color and cellulose production in kombucha beverages were evaluated. All tea fungus starters showed a higher acid production in green/black tea extracts rather than Gugija and Omija extracts. In green/black tea extracts Oriental tea fungus produced a kombucha beverage with a higher titrable acidity and lower pH than those of European and Tibetan tea fungus starters. By the static fermentation of green/black tea extract for 18 days, Oriental, Tibetan and European tea fungus starters produced cellulose pellicles of 0.43g, 0.16g, and 0.19 g (dry weight) on the top in the culture, respectively. As a mother starter, the cellulose pellicle was more efficient in acid production compared with tea fungus broth. Oriental/Tibetan mixed tea fungus showed the best acid production in the green/black tea extract supplemented with brown sugar.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.309-315
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• 1997

The fermented black tea with tea fungus (FBTF) was prepared by culturing tea fungus biomass in black tea with 10% sucrose (BT) at 30$\circ$ for 14 days. The flavor quality of FBTF was investigated by sensory and chemical analysis, and the results were compared with BT. The data of sensory analysis indicated that fruity, wine-like, sharp-pungent, and vinegar-like flavor notes were increase, while earthy note was reduced during fermentation. GC-MS analysis of volatile compounds collected from FBTF and BT by Tenax trap showed that linalool, liinalool oxide other flavor compounds known as black tea flavor compounds were disappeared. Some major flavor compounds produced during fermentation were acetic acid, ethanol, limonene, $\alpha$-terpineol, and these volatiles may be attributed to the flavor of characteristic FBTF. Biosynthetic pathway for the formation of limonene and $\alpha$-terpineol are proposed through mevalonic acid pathway using acetic acid as precusor and/or through transformation of linalool and linalool oxide.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.405-410
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• 1996

항암, 시력 회복, 변비 , 당뇨병 , 신장병 , 불면증 등에 치료 호과가 있어 건강 음료로 이용되고 있는 tea fungus 발효 홍차를 당의 종류(자당, 포도당, 과당, 옥수수물엿), 농도(10-60% w/v), 그리고 배양 온도별($5-50^{\circ}C$)로 제조하여 발효액의 pH변화와 산생산성을 보았다. 자당과 포도당을 첨가하여 제조한 홍차 용액 중에서 산생성 경향이 서로 유사하고, 자당과 옥수수물엿을 사용한 홍차 용액에서 산생성 경향이 서로 유사한 것으로 보아 자당보다 과당의 이용성이 높은것으로 추정된다. 배양액 표면의 막 형성과 생육, 그리고 생성을 위한 최적 온도는 $30^{\circ}C$였다. 20%이상의 자당과 과당을 사용한 홍차 용액을 $30^{\circ}C$에서 14일간 배양하였을 때 0.1-0.2%의 낮은 산 생성을 보였으며, 10%의 자당과 과당을 사용한 홍차 용액에서 14일간 배양시킨 발효 홍차의 total acidity는 각각 1.8% w/v(자당)과 0.68% w/v(과당)가 되었다. 발효 홍차의 pH는 배양 2일 후부터 당의 증류, 농도, 배양 온도에 크게 영향을 받지 않고 모든 배양액에서 2.74-3.56으로 떨어져 배양 14일까지 같은 수준의 pH를 유지하였다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.56-65
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• 1996

10%의 sucrose를 첨가한 홍차추출물에 tea fungus를 접종하여 (30^{\circ.)$에서 정치배양하여 발효하였다. 14일 동안의 발효에 의해 배양액의 전표면에 7~8mm의 두꺼운 피막이 생겼으며, 배양액의 pH가 2.5 부근으로 저하되었다. 발효 과정 중 아래쪽의 배양액에서는 효모(Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Eeniella sp.)와 여러종류의 세균(Bacillus subtilis, Kurthia zopfli, Gluconobacter oxydans와 Deinococcus sp.)이 분리되었다. 반면에 피막 부위에서는 Acetobacter aceti의 단일균주가 분리되었으며 이 세균은 통상의 Acetobacter와는 달리 점질상의 덩어리로 성장하였다. 발효음료는 달고 새콤한 맛과 약간의 달콤한 과일향을 나타내었다. 이상의 결과로부터 tea fungus에 의한 홍차발효는 다양한 미생물이 공동으로 작용하여 진행되는 symbiotic acetate발효로서, 발효음료는 생물학적으로 안전할 뿐만아니라 적당한 발효조건에 의해 좋은 향미를 갖춘 유망한 음료로 판단되었다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2002

Factors affecting the production of bacterial cellulose and organic acids in Kombucha fermentation were investigated. Kombucha was obtained by the fermentation (for 12 days at 3$0^{\circ}C$) of the green/black tea extract, supplemented with 10% white sugar, using an Oriental tea fungus as starter. Hitgher initial pH increased acid production with decreased cellulose production. With a cellulose pellicle or tea fungus broth as a starter, a 1~3 mm thick cellulose layer developed as a top layer every four days, and was removed subsequently while continuing fermentation. Addition of 30 mL tea fungus broth (13%, v/v) in Kombucha fermentation resulted in maximum production of a cellulose pellicle, indicating weak acid production. Yield of cellulose production at an early stage of fermentation was also higher when Kombucha was inoculated with a cellulose pellicle. In fact, addition of 1% (v/v) alcoholic beverage in the Kombucha fermentation activated the cellulose production, coupled with four times higher acid production.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.40-44
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• 2001

Disease occurrence and development of gray blight of tea (Camellia sinensis) were investigated. Higher incidences and more severe damage by gray blight were found in Japanese tea variety Yabukita than the Korean local variety. In Yabukita, Pestalotiopsis longiseta was more frequently observed on the diseased leaves than P. theae but vice versa in the Korean local variety. This indicates that there was the varietal difference in the distribution of fungal species of gray blight pathogens. Both varieties were most severely damaged during the third harvest period with weather conditions of high temperature and humidity favorable to the disease. Presence of the tea brown blight fungus Glomerella cingulata on the margin of gray blight lesion at the late stahe suggested that the pathogenic fungi of tea gray blight were replaced by the brown blight fungus during the disease development.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2009

Kombucha tea(KT) is sugared black tea fermented with a symbiotic culture of acetic acid bacteria and yeasts, which is said to be tea fungus. KT is claimed to have various beneficial effects on human health, but there is very little scientific evidence available in the literature. In the present study, KT along with black tea(BT) and black tea manufactured with tea fungus enzymes(enzyme-processed tea, ET) were evaluated for hepatoprotective and curative properties against $CCl_4$-induced toxicity, using male albino rats as an experimental model by analyzing aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, and alkaline phosphatase in plasma and malondialdehyde content in plasma and liver tissues. Histopathological analysis of liver tissue was also included. Results showed that BT, ET, and KT have the potential to revert the $CCl_4$-induced hepatotoxicity. Among the three types of teas tried, KT was found to be more efficient than BT and ET. Antioxidant molecules produced during the fermentation period could be the reason for the efficient hepatoprotective and curative properties of KT against $CCl_4$-induced hepatotoxicity.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.383-385
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• 1995

Occurrence of white scab of tea (CAmellia sinensis) showing numerous, small, circular, reddish or yellowish brown spots on young tea leaves was observed at a tea plantation of Boseung, Chonnam, from May to June in 1992-1994. At the late growth stages, the center of the spot became light gray. The causal fungus of the white scab was identified as Sphaceloma theae Kurosawa. Symptoms were produced 5∼6 days after inoculation by the artificial inoculation of s. theae conidia, which was similar to those on naturally infected leaves.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.497-501
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• 2000

We investigated the effect of tea fungus/kombucha(TF) beverage on serum and liver lipid metabolism in growing male rats. The rats(Sprague-Dawley) were divided into five groups; control(TF free water), 20 or 40% TF groups(20 or 40% TF in water) and 20 or 40% TFS groups(20 or 40% TF autoclaved in water) according to the level of TF supplementation. The rats were fed ad libitum each of the experimental beverage for 7 weeks. The body weight gain of all the TF and TFS groups were similar to that of the control group. The total lipid and triglyceride concentrations of serum in the 40% TF group were increased more than those in the control group, but those in the 20% TF and 20% TFS groups were similar to that of the control group. The total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol concentrations, HDL-cholesterol / total cholesterol ratio and atherogenic index of serum in all the TF and TFS groups were similar to those of the control group. The LDL-cholesterol concentration of serum was significantly lower in the 20% TF group than that in the control group. The LDL-cholesterol concentration of serum was significantly lower in the 20% TF group than that in the control group, but those of the 40% TF, 20% TFS and 40% TFS groups were similar to that of the control group. The liver weights of all the TF and TFS groups were heavier than that of the control group. The concentrations of hepatic triglyceride in the 20% TF and 20% TFS groups were significantly decreased, compared with that in the control group. The concentrations of hepatic total cholesterol in all the TF and TFS groups were significantly more decreased than that in the control group. These results indicated that the liver weights of tea fungus/kombucha beverage feeding rats were increased, also the serum triglyceride and total cholesterol concentrations of 40% TF feeding rats were increased. but the serum LDL-cholesterol, hepatic triglyceride and cholesterol levels of 20% TF feeding rats were decreased.