Volatile and soluble metabolite profiles in surface-ripened cheeses with Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus sojae.

To determine the impact of traditional koji molds on chemical characteristics of soft-type natural cheese, novel surface mold-ripened cheeses with Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus sojae were studied by non-targeted metabolite profiling. Comprehensive water-soluble and volatile metabolite profiles of koji cheese were evaluated among five Aspergillus strains and other mold-ripened cheeses. Time-course changes in the metabolite profiles and degrading enzyme activities were also compared with those of an industrial Penicillium candidum starter culture. Koji cheeses differed from Camembert, Brie, and blue cheeses in higher lactic acid, amino acid, and acetoin levels and lower methyl ketone and volatile fatty acid levels. Time-course analysis revealed the associations of rapid accumulations of glutamic, aspartic, and 3-methylbutanoic acids and 3-methylbutanal with higher proteolytic activity, and methyl ketone and fatty acid derivative suppressions with lower lipolytic activity. Ethyl butanoate, diacetyl, and malic acid also characterized koji cheeses as strain-dependent metabolites. This study highlighted the key compositional difference derived from cheese ripening with Aspergillus strains. The findings could help quality improvements of koji cheese product. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Satoru Tomita, Masaru Nomura, Yousuke Arakawa, Takayuki Miura, Sora Hayashida, Tatsuro Hagi, Miho Kobayashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Hideyuki Yamashita, Kaoru Sato, Ken-Ichi Kusumoto. Volatile and soluble metabolite profiles in surface-ripened cheeses with Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus sojae. Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.). 2022 Aug;158:111535

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