Establishment of a Mathematical Model for Treatment of Gynura bicolor DC. by Nano-Packaging in Combination with Controlled Atmosphere JIANG Li1, FENG Li1, HOU Tian-ying2, YU Zhi-fang1 (1. College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; 2. Beijng Vegetable Research Center, Beijng Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China)
Abstract: The effects of nano-packaging (NP) in combination with controlled atmosphere (CA) on the preservation and nutritional quality of fresh Gynura bicolor DC (G. bicolor). were investigated during storage at 0 ℃. The nutrition and quality indices including decay index, respiration rate, as well as the contents of anthocyanin, chlorophyll, amino acid, protein, total carbohydrate and reducing sugar were tested every 5 days. The combined treatment (CA+NP) improved the nutritional quality of G. bicolor compared with polyethylene packaging in CA or NP in a modified atmosphere alone. After 20-day storage, CA + NP treatment significantly inhibited respiration intensity and maintained higher contents of total soluble solids, anthocyanin, chlorophyll, amino acids, protein, total sugar, and reducing sugar. The simplified regression model: Decay index/%=24.605 - 0.020X7 + 1.122X4 - 0.162X5 (where, X4: reducing sugar content, X5: anthocyanin content, X7: chlorophyll content) revealed satisfactory goodness of fit (R2 > 0.9). Hence, this model can be applied in practice. Key words: Gynura bicolor DC.; phytic acid; preservation; quality; mathematical model
采后纳米材料包装结合气调处理对紫背天葵贮藏品质的影响及数学模型建立 姜 丽1,冯 莉1,侯田莹2,郁志芳1 (1.南京农业大学食品科技学院,江苏 南京 210095;2.北京市农林科学院蔬菜研究中心,北京 100097)
摘 要:以紫背天葵为试材,采用纳米材料自发气调、HDPE袋(15 μm厚)人工气调(3% O2)和纳米材料结合人工气调(3% O2)包装处理,并置于0 ℃条件下贮藏20 d,每5 d测定一次生理指标,包括腐烂率、呼吸强度及叶绿素、花青素、还原糖、总糖、氨基酸、蛋白质含量。结果表明,纳米结合人工气调包装处理组可有效保持采后紫背天葵的叶绿素和花青素含量,保持良好的外观色泽,通过延缓花青素、还原糖、总糖、氨基酸和蛋白质含量的下降,有效保持品质,延缓衰老。建立的一元回归方程为:腐烂率/%=24.605-0.020X7+1.122X4-0.162X5(式中:X4为还原糖含量;X5为花青素含量;X7为叶绿素含量),拟合度较好(R2>0.9),可应用于生产实践。 关键词:紫背天葵;纳米材料结合气调包装;贮藏;品质;数学模型 中图分类号:TS255.3 文献标志码:A 文章编号:1002-6630(2014)16-0238-06 doi:10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201416046 Gynura bicolor DC. (G. bicolor), a cultivated leafy vegetable, belongs to the genus Gynura Cass and is used as food throughout Asia for centuries[1]. It is mostly produced in southern China and has once been used as a Chinese herbal medicine[2]. Recently, many Chinese have a deep-rooted belief that ‘even tastes bad, a well-selected Chinese herbal medicine uptake from daily diet provides health benefits and prevents diseases as a tonic’ [3]. Thus, the production and consumption of G. bicolor have been expanding rapidly. Since living organisms (water content >90%) with high metabolic activity after harvest are prone to losing nutrients and appearance during senescence, proper post-harvest treatments are in need for G. bicolor production. Heat treatment, edible coating, high-pressure processing, refrigerated storage and controlled atmosphere (CA) storage have been used for vegetables, but the protocols are not universal. Up to now, the studies on G. bicolor have focused on nutritional value, antioxidant activity[4], as well as extracted anthocyanin[5] and flavonoids[6]. In contrast, eligible preservation technologies have only been reported by our group during the last 6 years. A previous research showed that package in combination with low temperature (0 ℃) improved the nutritional quality of G. bicolor and decre ased the decay rate to 10% on Day 20[1]. Low-level O2 can delay senescence by significantly increasing antioxidant activity and total phenolic content, thus extending the storage life of fresh product[7]. Nano-packaging (NP) materials, which have better barrier, mechanical and fresh-keeping properties than normal ones[8-9], have been applied in a wide range of industries and markets. Huang Yuanyuan et al.[9] reported that NP better retained VC, chlorophyll, polyphenol and amino acids in green tea than normal packaging did. Li Hongmei et al.[8] also reported that the quality of Ziziphus jujuba Mill. was improved with NP preservation agents. Although both CA storage[10] and NP[8-9,11] have been employed to extend the shelf-life of many vegetables, the two methods have never been combined. Our previous studies have shown that CA (3% O2) could effectively delay the senescence of G. bicolor and maintain good quality. The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of combined NP and CA on the nutritional quality of G. bicolor during storage at 0 ℃, and to establish a mathematical model describing the storage process. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 Materials G. bicolor samples were harvested in a commercial farmland in Shanghai, China. Then they were pre-cooled to 2–5 ℃ and transferred to the laboratory by a refrigerated vehicle immediately. The unified leaves were divided randomly into three groups and treated as follows: 1) Nano-material-packaging with modified atmosphere (NP, 30 bags × 600 g/bag); 2) normal polyethylene-packaging with a controlled atmosphere of 3% O2 and 97% N2 (controlled The nano-material bags, which contained 10.5% nano-Ag and 12% nano-TiO2, were 40 µm in thickness and 30 cm× 45 cm in size. Polyethylene bags with the same thickness and size without nano-powders were employed as controls. 1.2 Decay index About 500 g leaves from each treatment were used, and decay degrees were visibly divided into four levels: 0, no decay; 1, decay < l/3; 2, 1/3–2/3 decay; 3, decay> 2/3. Decay index was calculated according to the following formula: Decay index/% = [(1 × N1 + 2 × N2 + 3 × N3) × 100 / (3 × N)] where N is the total number of leaves showing different degrees of decay. 1.3 Respiratory rate The respiratory rate of G. bicolor was determined with the small skep method based on CO2 absorption and expressed as mg CO2/(kg•h)[1]. A glass plate containing 20 mL of 0.4 mol/L NaOH was added to absorb CO2 produced by 300 g G. bicolor leaves during respiration. After 1 h, NaOH was transferred into a beaker and titrated with 0.2 mol/L 1.4 Anthocyanin content The total anthocyanin content was determined by a spectrophotometric method described by Dourtoglou et al.[10]. An aliquot of extract was diluted 1:10 with ethanolic HCl solution (0.25 mol/L). The solution was mixed thoroughly, and the absorbance at 520 nm (A520 nm) was read after 5 min, using the ethanolic HCl solution as blank. Cyanidin 3-glucoside (kuromanin chloride, Rotichrom®) was used as the standard substance. 1.5 Chlorophyll content The chlorophyll content was measured by using acetone colorimetry method with slight modifications[9]. Leaves (0.5 g) were fully ground, to which acetone ethanol solution (2:1, V/V) was then added until the constant volume of 25 mL. Then the absorbance at 652 nm (A652 nm) was detected. Total chlorophyll content was calculated using Lichtenthaler’s equations. 1.6 Protein and reducing sugar contents Leaves (0.5 g) were homogenized in distilled water 1.7 Total carbohydrate and amino acid contents Total carbohydrate and amino acid in 1 g leaves were extracted twice by hot distilled water (10 mL and 1 h each time) until the constant volume of 25 mL. The supernatant was used for test. Total carbohydrate content was detected according to the anthrone colorimetric method described by Pons et al.[13]. Amino acid content was measured according to the ninhydrin method[9]. The contents of anthocyanin, chlorophyll, protein, amino acid, total carbohydrate and reducing sugar were all determined as milligrams of equivalents per g of fresh weight (FW). 1.8 Statistical analysis All the treatments and measurements were set up in a completely randomized factorial design with three replicates. All data were subjected to the analysis of variance (ANOVA) with SPSS 18.0 statistical software. A probability of <0.05 was considered as significant. 2 Results and Analysis 2.1 Respiratory rate and decay index Respiration is an important metabolic process that provides energy for plants, during which various substrates for key synthetic metabolic pathways are produced. During storage at 0 ℃, all three treatments increased the respiratory rate consistently, with the largest increase for CA (from 20.04 mg/(kg•h) to 56.61 mg/(kg•h), almost tripled as original) and the smallest for CA+NP (from 20.04 mg/(kg•h) to 41.27 mg/(kg•h), doubled as original) (Table 1). NP inhibited the respiration of G. bicolor more evidently than CA did, and CA+NP reduced the respiration most effectively and managed to maintain good quality as well. In contrast, the respiratory rate of green celery stored in CA decreased during storage[14]. Vegetables decay following browning, yellowing and putrescence. Browning of fresh vegetables during storage often leads to quality loss, and thus has become one of the important factors responsible for short shelf-life and limited marketability[15-16]. In this study, samples lost weight and browning was aggravated because the relative humidity of each treatment was more than 94%. The decay of Table 1 Effects of NP in combination with CA on decay index, respiration rate, anthocyanin and chlorophyll contents of G. bicolor
Note: Each value is the mean for three replicates and vertical bars indicate the standard deviation of each mean value (n = 3). Mean ± SD within the same column or row followed by the same uppercase or lowercase letter are not significantly different (LSD 0.05/0.01). Data are analyzed with SPSS. CA: controlled atmosphere packaging; NP: nano-packaging in combination with modified atmosphere; CA+NP: nano-packaging in combination with controlled atmosphere. Different letters in the same column or row indicate significant difference at the 0.05 level. Table 2 is same.
2.2 Anthocyanin and chlorophyll contents As a main attribute of most vegetables, color plays a key role in food choice, preference and acceptability, and may even influence taste thresholds, sweetness perception and pleasantness[18]. Since the back of G. bicolor leaves was purple and the other parts were green, color mainly indicated the contents of anthocyanin and chlorophyll. The content of anthocyanin in the leaves of the CA+NP group increased, decreased, and reached maximum on Day 10. Individual CA and NP treatments exerted similar effects, but the contents were lower on the same day and reached significant difference (Table 1). These results suggested that combining NP with CA maintained stable anthocyanin content and the purple color more effectively. All treatments decreased the chlorophyll content continuously but with slight differences (Table 1). The chlorophyll contents resembled after CAP and NP treatments, but there were significant differences between CA+NP and NP or CAP treated leaves. Hence, CA+NP could keep the chlorophyll content at a higher level. Similarly, Huang Yuanyuan et al.[9] reported that the chlorophyll content in green tea with NP was 6.9% higher than that with normal packaging. Many crops, such as Brassica, generate anthocyanin as a stress response indicating poor quality[19]. Higher-level anthocyanin was induced in response to storage condition in all groups during the first ten days, and then anthocyanin degraded responding to senescence. Oxidation converted chlorophyll into pheophytin, so the chlorophyll content of G. bicolor leaves steadily decreased during storage. CA+NP maintained the color of G. bicolor better by inhibiting the decreases of anthocyanin and chlorophyll. 2.3 Amino acid and protein contents Amino acid in G. bicolor treated with CA+NP during the 20-day storage increased from 7.64 mg/g on 0 day to 10.02 mg/g Moreover, the contents of protein in G. bicolor leaves kept decreasing to minimum on the 20th day of storage. The protein contents decreased from 9.79 mg/g to 8.41 mg/g for CA, to 8.94 mg/g for NP and to 9.26 mg/g for CA+NP on Days 20. CA+NP significantly delayed the decrease in protein content, which may be ascribed to NP material and combined CA treatment. Accordingly, nanoparticles could maintain the protein content at a higher level[17]. The degradation rate of protein exceeded the synthetic rate, which thus decreased the protein content and probably increased the amino acid content. However, the amino acid contents of G. bicolor steadily decreased in all treatments owing to the enhanced respiration under low O2 condition. Table 2 Effects of NP in combination with CA on the postharvest contents of amino acid, protein, total carbohydrate and
2.4 Total carbohydrate and reducing sugar contents Total carbohydrate in G. bicolor leaves decreased during storage and reached to 9.37 mg/g for CA, 8.64 mg/g for NP and 10.34 mg/g for CA+NP on Day 20 (Table 2). There were significant differences between the three treatments. Being consistent with the results of Yu Wenhua et al.[20], CA+NP remarkably retarded the dehydration and gave rise to quality loss. The overall contents of reducing sugar in G. bicolor leaves of three treatments all increased during storage and reached maximum on Day 20, and CA+NP treatment led to the highest content compared with other two treatments did at each time point (Table 2). Thus, CA+NP treatment inhibited the metabolism of reducing sugar from respiratory processes and then kept quality better. Moreover, total carbohydrate and reducing sugar contents were significantly negatively correlated. A part of reducing sugars originated from the soluble ones released during storage, probably due to the hydrolysis of total carbohydrate. 2.5 Establishment of mathematical model The correlations between decay index (X1), protein content (X2), total carbohydrate content (X3), reducing sugar content (X4), anthocyanin content (X5), respiration rate (X6), chlorophyll content (X7) and amino acid content (X8) were analyzed. Most variables were highly correlated, so cluster and factor analyses were performed. 2.5.1 Hierarchical cluster and discriminant Cluster and discriminant analyses are the fundamental methods for categorization. All the treatment groups at different storage times (CA0, CA5, CA10, CA20, NP0, NP5, NP10, NP15, NP20, CA+NP0, CA+NP5, CA+NP10, CA+NP15 and CA+NP20) were divided into 3-5 clusters by using hierarchical clustering (Fig.1). The groups could be divided into three classes, viz., CA0, NP0 and CA+NP0 in cluster 1, CA20, NP20 and CA+NP20 in cluster 3, and other groups in cluster 2. Accordingly, storage time mainly affected the quality of G. bicolor. When the groups were further divided into five classes, CA5, NP5, CA+NP5, NP10, CA+NP10 NP15 and CA+NP15 were all in cluster 2, indicating that NP and CA+NP treatments influenced preservation more obviously than CA treatment did and that packaging was the minor influencing factor.
Fig.1 Dendrogram using average linkage (between groups) rescaled distance cluster Since only storage period (prophase, metaphase and anaphase) needs to be predicted in practical production, a discriminant clustering equation was established herein based on cluster analysis. The coefficients of the equations are listed below: This equation had good discrimination ability throughout G. bicolor storage and could be used to determine the storage period. The data were assigned to the cluster that scored highest respectively. 2.5.2 Factor analysis and regression
Fig.2 Factor plot in rotated factor space The cumulative contribution rates of the first and second principal components are 62.210% and 23.805%, respectively. The first two principal component contribution rates, which exceeded 85%, were utilized to carry out subsequent analysis. A rotated factor model was established by maximum-variance orthogonal rotation of the original component matrix. Then two common factors, factor 1 and factor 2, were extracted as the first and second principal factors respectively. The first principal factor was mainly determined by decay index (X1), total carbohydrate content (X3) and chlorophyll content (X7), and their loads on the main factor were -0.969, 0.978 and 0.981, respectively (Fig.2). The second principal factor was mainly determined by amino acid content (X8), and its load on the main factor was 0.994. Therefore, factor 1 and factor 2 were referred to as quality factor and flavor factor, respectively. In addition, decay index, respiration rate and contents of reducing sugar, amino acid, anthocyanin, protein, chlorophyll and total carbohydrate might change similarly during G. bicolor senescence (Fig.2). Afterwards, the factor scores of observable variables were calculated by factor score coefficients with the equation bellow: F3=681.619X1+3 187.018X2-233.198X3-1 588.392X4-339.378 8X5+73.329X6+9.271X7+71.982X8-18 130.867 F2=635.444X1+2 925.513X2-197.672X3-1 457.447X4-311.408X5+66.425X6+8.432X7+56.799X8-15 402.681 F1=670.776X1+3 185.669X2-238.858X3-1 686.828X4-378.084X5+72.984X6+9.533X7+94.686X8-17 989.190 As suggested by the scores of all treatment groups at different storage time points (Fig.3), CA+NP and CA groups had higher antioxidant capacities, CA+NP and NP groups had better flavor, and CA+NP group had maximum storage capacity.
A. score of factor 1; B. score of factor 2; C. score of total. Fig.3 Factor scores of all treatment groups Table 3 Coefficientsa
Note: a. Dependent variable: decay index.
The process was run in three steps (Table 3), and only X4, X5 and X7 remained in the model in the last step. The prediction equation was expressed below: Decay index/%=24.605-0.020X7+1.122X4-0.162X5 Decay index of G. bicolor, as suggested by the regression equation, was significantly negatively correlated with chlorophyll and anthocyanin contents, and was positively correlated with reducing sugar content. The content of oxygen free radicals increased with prolonged storage. In the meantime, chlorophyll, anthocyanin and reducing sugar were easily oxidized[21], and the oxidation of them or the retention rate was able to reflect the senescence process. R2>0.9, 3 Conclusions In summary, NP in combination with CA exerted significant beneficial effect on the quality maintenance of G. bicolor than each applied separately did. The leaves of treated G. bicolor had higher antioxidant capacity, as evidenced by the high contents of chlorophyll, anthocyanin and reducing sugars. 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