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| Author(s): |
Beatriz Thie Iamanaka
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos |
| Defense date: | 2010-01-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Neura Bragagnolo;
Aldir Alves Teixeira;
Benedito Correa;
Eduardo Vicente;
Hector Abel Palacios Cabrera;
Jose Luiz Pereira
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| Advisor: | Neura Bragagnolo |
| Abstract | |
Coffee goes through several processes until consumed as a beverage and many factors contribute to its final quality, including the presence of the microbial population. The coffee beans contamination by microorganisms is diversity envolving bacteria, moulds and yeast, with predominance of one or another and is dependent of the coffee beans processing stages. There is inconclusive evidence that many fungi present in coffee can produce several volatile metabolites that can damage beverage quality. This research had the objectives to analyze the mycobiota ot the coffee beans obtained on the different stages of coffee production chain; investigate the production of volatile compounds produced by the isolates and the impact of them on the beverage quality and carry out sensory evaluation of beverage in relation to the fungal species. The mycobiota of forty-one samples of raw coffee beans from two Brazilian production areas, Cerrado Mineiro/MG and Piraju/SP were analyzed. Samples were collected from the tree (cherry beans), from the soil (¿varreção¿), from the drying yard (ripe, dry, over-ripe and immature) and drying storage (¿tulha¿) and two kinds of bean separation were compared: natural and pulped. The Minas Gerais samples had low fungal infection with the main species being Eurotium spp and Fusarium spp. In relation to the Piraju samples there was a considerable diversity of isolated species and the following were among the most predominant: Penicillium brevicompactum, Aspergillus foetidus, Penicillium crustosum and Fusarium spp. Coffee beans collected from the soil along with the over-ripe ones were a highly incidence of Aspegillus foetidus with a percent infection above 16% and a negative sensorial evaluation. Aspergillus foetidus produced volatile compounds such as 2-butenal, dimethyl dissulfite in the culture medium and 1-octen-3-ol when inoculated on the raw coffee. These metabolites were characterized by as unpleasant aroma of soil, musty, rotten and pungency and they were related as one of the responsible compounds for the negative characteristcs of the sensorial analyses.In this work the presence of some fungal species were found in the beans wich even at high levels of infection, did not necessarily result in a decrease of the sensorial evaluation. Samples with a high percentage of Penicillium brevicompactum infection had a positive final evaluation. This specie stood out from the rest due to the production of many volatile compounds with positive characteristics such as aldehydes (2-octenal, decanal and undecanal) showing citric and herbal aromas and cetones (2-nonanone, 3-nonen-2-one, 2-undecanonc and 2-pentadecanone) showing frutal and floral aroma. Therefore, metabolites produced during fungal growth can be related to the insertion of sensorial properties of flavour on coffee, both positive or negative (AU) | |