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Effect of Solar Pre-Drying and Yeast Starter Inoculation Treatments on the Chemical Composition of Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Beans from Southwestern Colombia

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العنوان: Effect of Solar Pre-Drying and Yeast Starter Inoculation Treatments on the Chemical Composition of Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Beans from Southwestern Colombia
المؤلفون: Juan Florencio Tejeda, Jéssica Arango-Angarita, Jairo Leonardo Cuervo
المصدر: Foods, Vol 12, Iss 24, p 4455 (2023)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: cocoa beans, pre-drying, yeasts, chemical composition, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
الوصف: In Southwestern Colombia, cocoa clones are cultivated in which productivity characteristics predominate over bean quality. In this study, cocoa beans of the CCN-51 clone harvested in the Tumaco region (Nariño, Colombia) were fermented following four different treatments: (1) spontaneously (at room temperature for 120 h) in traditional conditions (Control); (2) traditional processing with a pre-drying (sun-dried for 24 h) treatment (PD); (3) with fermentation (for 120 h) after inoculation of a yeast starter culture (YS); and (4) including both treatments, pre-drying and yeast inoculation (PD + YS). Chemical composition, fatty acids, total polyphenol, methylxanthines (theobromine and caffeine) and lactic acid content of cocoa beans were determined. Chemical and fatty acid composition and theobromine content were not affected by the different fermentation treatments applied (p > 0.05). When analyzing total polyphenol content, YS (16.62 mg/g) and PD + YS (17.74) treatments significantly decreased (p < 0.05) the content of these compounds at the end of the fermentation process, affecting cocoa flavour, while PD treatment decreased (p < 0.05) the caffeine content (0.68 mg/g) of cocoa beans. Finally, lactic acid content decreased because of both inoculation of yeast starter (1.11 mg/g) and mainly the pre-drying treatment (0.60). In conclusion, solar pre-drying in the open air and the inoculation of yeast starter treatments could improve the final quality of cocoa beans.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2304-8158
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/12/24/4455; https://doaj.org/toc/2304-8158
DOI: 10.3390/foods12244455
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/a0a7968bc7174133ba08a503aebb57d2
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.0a7968bc7174133ba08a503aebb57d2
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:23048158
DOI:10.3390/foods12244455