Abstract
Salted and then washed flounder muscles with salting levels of 10%, 15% and 20% were mixed with boiled foxtail millet and spices(radish, garlic, ginger and red pepper) and fermented at $15^{\circ}C$ for 7 days. The changes of taste constituents of fermented flounder Sikhae, such as sugars, free amino acids and 5'-nucleotides, were investigated. The content of fructose decreased significantly during Sikhae fermentation, but the content of mannitol that was not detected from raw material was estimated to be $6.26%{\sim}8.97%$ in Sikhae. The content of total free amino nitrogen in the 15% salted Sikhae was 290.6 mg% and the highest value with 53.4% of its extract nitrogen. It is believed that leucine, alanine, arginine, glutamine, isoleucine, valine, glutamic acid and lysine may play an important role as the taste constituents in Sikhae. The detected 5'-nucleotides were CMP, UMP, CTP, AMP, ADP and ATP and among them the nucleotide showing the hightest level irrespective of treatment was UMP estimated to be $761.0\;{\mu}g{\sim}849.0\;{\mu}g/g$. ATP and ADP were significantly decreased in Sikhae, but CMP and CTP were significantly increased in the 15% salted Sikhae compared with those of raw material.
함경도 지방의 전통 향토식품인 가자미식해를 소금절임농도를 달리하여 맛 성분의 변화를 관찰하였다. 당은 원료(대조구)에서 fructose, ${\beta}$-D-(+)-glucose, sucrose, maltose, mannose가 주로 검출되었고 그중 fructose가 가장 많이 검출되었으나 숙성된 식해에서는 fructose가 급격히 감소하는 반면 원료에서 검출되지 않았던 mannitol이 급격히 증가되어 15% 소금절임 식해에서 8.97%로 가장 높았다. 수용성 질소에 대한 아미노태 질소의 비가 가장 높은 것은 15% 소금절임 식해로 53.4%를 나타내었다. 식해에 많이 함유된 유리아미노산으로는 leucine, alanine, arginine, glutamine, isoleucine, valine, glutamic acid, lysine등으로 이들이 주로 식해의 맛 성분에 관련하는 것 같았다. 5'-Nucleotide는 CMP, UMP, CTP, AMP, ADP, ATP등이 검출되었고 처리에 관계없이 UMP가 가장 많이 검출되었으나 처리에 따른 큰 변화는 없었다. 원료에 비하여 15% 소금절임 식해에서 CMP가 2배, CTP가 1.25배 증가하였다. ATP, ADP 및 AMP는 원료에 비하여 식해에서 감소하였다.