An impression of coffee carbohydrates.

Arya, Meenakshi and Jaganmohan Rao, L. (2007) An impression of coffee carbohydrates. Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 47 (1). pp. 51-67. ISSN 1040-8398

PDF Critical_Reviews_in_Food_Science_&_Nutrition_47(1)_2007_51-67.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (1MB)

Abstract

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. It is consumed for its refreshing and stimulating properties. Carbohydrates are the major constituents of coffee beans and serve various functions like binding of aroma, stabilization of foam, formation of sedimentation, and increased viscosity of the extract. The principal low molecular weight carbohydrate is sucrose and no evidence of other simple oligosaccharides has been found. Polysaccharide fraction from green coffee is dominated by arabinogalactan, galactomannan, and cellulose. The polysaccharide content is reduced during roasting due to degradation to low molecular weight carbohydrates (viz., mono and oligosaccharide) and become more extractable. Various methods that can be employed to extract the carbohydrate from roasted coffee are sequential extraction, acid hydroloysis, hot water extraction, enzymatic extraction etc. Carbohydrates from coffee can be quantitatively determined by liquid chromatography, high performance anion exchange chromatography, size exclusion chromatography, and high performance liquid chromatography. Besides improving the organoleptic quality of the coffee beverage, carbohydrates also possess various biological activities such as lowering colon cancer risk. Besides their sheer mass, a variety of evidences testify to the important contribution that the polysaccharide content makes to the character of the final brew. Although a number of chemical and enzymatic methods have been devised to isolate and quantify the carbohydrates of R&G coffee, till date hot water extraction is the only method which can be accepted as a most feasible process and hence, there is wide scope of further research for the efficient and economically viable technology for extraction of carbohydrates from coffee.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	coffee, green and roasted beans, chemical composition, carbohydrates, isolation, extraction, biological activities
Subjects:	600 Technology > 07 Beverage Technology > 04 Coffee
Divisions:	Plantation Products Spices and Flavour Technology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2008 06:08
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2012 09:14
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/1882

Actions (login required)

View Item