Essay On Adlay Vinegar

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

A. Quality Assessment of Adlay Vinegar Fortified with Iron

Sensory Evaluation (Descriptive Test) of Adlay Vinegar

The descriptive sensory evaluation is an important tool in determining the detailed description of products and how process or ingredient affect the final product characteristics and sensory attributes. In this study, sensory evaluation of adlay vinegar was conducted on the 10th, 20th, and 30th day after storage. This method was taken in order to assess viable changes of the product’s organoleptic properties. Vinegar produced from fruits and grains’ ethanolic solution contains certain amount of phenolic compounds which may contain some antioxidant properties (Pinsirodom et al., 2010). However, the most essential aspect that contributes to the vinegar flavor is aging. In this process, fundamental integration of different compounds present occurs. Reduction in the pungency of acetic acid during aging was significantly detected (Tan, 2005). As noted by Mas et al. (2013), over 100 chemical compounds in the aroma of vinegar were identified including carbonyl compounds, esthers, lactones, acetals, acids, alcohols, phenols and volatile …show more content…

This is the result if the incomplete conversion of ethyl alcohol to acetic acid due to the insufficient time to aging process, both in the preparation of wine and the aging for vinegar. Also, the result implies that the lowering of pH was not attributed by the presence of acetic acid but by the addition of iron in the sample. According to Hurrell (1997), significant traces of iron contributes to the lowering of the pH of vinegar products. For the ash content, the adlay vinegar reached the acceptable level. As stated in the AO No.1314 s.1970 by the Department of Health, all vinegars must contain more than 0.4% of

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