Contents of some biologically active amines in a Czech blue-vein cheese

Tomáš Komprda, Vlastimil Dohnal and Renata Závodníková
Additional contact information
Tomáš Komprda: Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Vlastimil Dohnal: Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Renata Závodníková: Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Czech Journal of Food Sciences, 2008, vol. 26, issue 6, 428-440

Abstract: Biogenic amines (histamine, tyramine, tryptamine, phenylethylamine, cadaverine) including biologically active polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) were determined by HPLC method after 7, 21, 35, and 49 days of ripening in the core (C) and edge (E) samples of a blue-veined cheese, popular in the Czech Republic under the trade mark Niva, produced in the three consecutive months (October, November, December) from pasteurised cow milk using Penicillium roqueforti spores; two vats were produced in each month. The cheese vat, including the production period, accounted for (P < 0.05) one third and two thirds of the explained variability of the sum of biogenic amines and the sum of polyamines, respectively. The ripening time was significant (P < 0.05) from this viewpoint only in the case of the sum of biogenic amines (nearly half of the explained variability). Putrescine and spermidine contents in cheese did not change (P > 0.05), spermine content even decreased (P < 0.05) with increasing time of ripening. Tyramine content (Y, mg/kg) in the core samples increased linearly with increasing time of ripening (X, days), Y = 6.3 + 11.69X, R2 = 0.26, P < 0.001, contrary to the edge part where tyramine content did not change (P > 0.05). At the end of ripening (49 days), tyramine was quantitatively the most abundant amine (the mean and median 380 mg/kg and 289 mg/kg, respectively), its content in different cheeses (vats) varying from 10 mg/kg to 875 mg/kg. Cadaverine concentration varied between 3 mg/kg and 491 mg/kg (the mean 114, median 56 mg/kg). The levels of other biogenic amines and polyamines (with the exception of putrescine in the edge part of one of the December vats: 117 mg/kg) were very low even at the end of ripening. Tyramine contents at the end of ripening in the core-samples were higher (P < 0.01) in comparison with those in the edge-samples, contrary to histamine, cadaverine, putrescine, and spermine contents.

Keywords: tyramine; cadaverine; polyamines; blue-vein cheese; Penicillium roqueforti (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://cjfs.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/7/2008-CJFS.html (text/html)
http://cjfs.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/7/2008-CJFS.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:caa:jnlcjf:v:26:y:2008:i:6:id:7-2008-cjfs

DOI: 10.17221/7/2008-CJFS

Access Statistics for this article

Czech Journal of Food Sciences is currently edited by Ing. Zdeňka Náglová Ph.D.

More articles in Czech Journal of Food Sciences from Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().