Effect of cacao bean quality grade on cacao quality evaluation by cut test and correlations with free amino acids and polyphenols profiles.

Autor: Tchouatcheu, Germaine Audrey Ngouambe, Noah, Alexandre Mboene, Lieberei, Reinhard, Niemenak, Nicolas
Zdroj: Journal of Food Science & Technology; May2019, Vol. 56 Issue 5, p2621-2627, 7p
Abstrakt: Cacao fermentation induces biochemical changes in the beans that lead to different cacao grades such as slaty (unfermented), violet (under fermented) and brown (fully fermented) beans. This grade heterogeneity in a sample set can impact the quality of the end-products. In the present study, amino acids and polyphenol contents of slaty, violet and brown beans were evaluated. Free amino acids were derivatized from o–phthalaldehyde and detected with a fluorescence spectrophotometer coupled with a reverse phase HPLC system. Polyphenols were analysed at 280 nm by HPLC using a Photodiode Array Detector. Amino acids content in the violet beans were significantly higher (11,165 ± 4281 mg kg−1 fat free dry material, ffdm) than that of the slaty beans (4304.5 ± 1927.6 mg kg−1 ffdm), meanwhile there was no significant difference between violet and brown beans. Epicatechin, catechin, cyanidin-3-arabinoside and cyanidin-3-galactoside contents were significantly lower in violet and brown beans when compared to slaty beans. Our results have shown that a mixture of violet and brown beans is suitable to obtain polyphenols and amino acids in the development of cacao products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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