Determination of Organic Acids, Sugars, Diacetyl, and Acetoin in Cheese by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
文摘
Sugars (lactose, glucose, and galactose), nonvolatile acids (citric, orotic, piruvic, lactic, ossalic, andhippuric), some free fatty acids (formic, acetic, propionic, butyric, isobutyric, valeric, and isovaleric),diacetyl, and acetoin were separated on an Aminex HPX-87H column using a simple isocratic HPLCmethod and identified by retention times with ultraviolet and refractive index detectors. With theproposed technique it is possible to evaluate the development of microbial fermentations and, atthe same time, degree of cheese ripening.Keywords: Cheese; organic acids; sugars; diacetyl; acetoin; HPLC