Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 135, Issue 4, Pages 2714-2720Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.06.119
Keywords
Esters; Cream; Fusel oil; Lipase; Flavour; Taguchi design
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Coconut cream and fusel oil, two low-cost natural substances, were used as starting materials for the biosynthesis of flavour-active octanoic acid esters (ethyl-, butyl-, isobutyl- and (iso)amyl octanoate) using lipase Palatase as the biocatalyst. The Taguchi design method was used for the first time to optimize the biosynthesis of esters by a lipase in an aqueous system of coconut cream and fusel oil. Temperature, time and enzyme amount were found to be statistically significant factors and the optimal conditions were determined to be as follows: temperature 30 degrees C, fusel oil concentration 9% (v/w), reaction time 24 h, pH 6.2 and enzyme amount 0.26g. Under the optimised conditions, a yield of 14.25 mg/g (based on cream weight) and signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of 23.07 dB were obtained. The results indicate that the Taguchi design method was an efficient and systematic approach to the optimisation of lipase-catalysed biological processes. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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