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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mikulec, Nataša
• Habuš, Ivan
• Antunac, Neven
• Vitale, Ljubinka
• Havranek, Jasmina

Titel

Free amino acid profile during ripening of ewe's milk cheese from the Croatian island Krk

Ist Teil von

• International journal of dairy technology, 2013-08, Vol.66 (3), p.390-395

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this study was to determine the content of free amino acids (FAA) and their ratio in ewe's milk cheese from the island Krk during its ripening. FAA content was determined by reversed phase HPLC (RP‐HPLC) of cheese aqueous/ethanol extracts after FAA were transformed into their 6‐aminoquinolyl‐N‐hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate derivatives. Their concentration increased during ripening, reaching the value of 5% in cheese dry matter. The dominant FAA were glutamic acid>leucine>valine>aspartic acid>phenylalanine>serine>proline, and higher content of nonessential vs essential FAA was revealed. Krk cheese has, in relation to other cheeses, higher values for glutamic acid/leucine, glutamic acid/phenylalanine, glutamic acid/proline and smaller values for leucine/aspartic acid, valine/aspartic acid, phenylalanine/aspartic acid ratios, while other ratios are comparable to those of other hard ovine cheeses.