Quality Factors of Fruits and Vegetables - American Chemical Society

Chapter 5

Oxygen- and Metal-Ion-Dependent Nonenzymatic Browning of Grapefruit Juice Joseph Kanner and Nitsa Shapira

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Department of Food Science, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Grapefruit j u i c e was packaged i n glass bottles with various headspaces, calculated to provide several d i f f e r e n t concentrations of oxygen/ml j u i c e . The oxygen played the most important r o l e i n degradation of ascorbic acid (ASA) and non-enzymatic browning of grapefruit j u i c e stored at 23°C. A linear c o r r e l a t i o n was found among the amount of oxygen, the degradation rate of ASA and the browning rate. The lag period of browning of grapefruit j u i c e decreased i n length with increasing oxygen concentration. Ascorbic acid oxidase, which oxidizes ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid, was found capable of eliminating the lag period of the browning i n grapefruit j u i c e . Oxygen also enhanced the browning affected by dehydroascorbic a c i d . As the electronic structure of oxygen i s i n the t r i p l e t state, i t s reaction with molecules of singlet m u l t i p l i c i t y , such as ascorbic acid, i s spin-forbidden. This phenomenon led us to determine the involvement of metal ions i n the process of non-enzymatic browning affected by ascorbic acid oxidation. The oxidative degradation of ASA and the browning of grapefruit j u i c e were i n h i b i t e d by the addition of chelating agents (EDTA). The r e s u l t s demonstrated the involvement of metal ions i n the process of non-enzymatic browning.

Non-enzymatic browning of c i t r u s juices and concentrates has been reported by many researchers as a major cause of quality deterioration i n c i t r u s products (1-6). I t was suggested that sugar-sugar and sugar-amino reactions were unlikely to be the only contributors to the formation of brown pigments during storage of c i t r u s products (7), and especially of those packaged i n p l a s t i c metallized laminate bags 0097-6156/89/0405-0055$06.00/0 o 1989 American Chemical Society

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or cartons (8). The involvement of ascorbic acid i n non-enzymatic browning of c i t r u s products was studied by many researchers (9-12). Degradation of ascorbic acid provided carboxyl compounds (4,7,13,14) that subsequently reacted v i a aldole condensation or with amino acids groups and polymerized to give brown pigments (10,11,12). Ascorbic acid degradation i n heat-treated c i t r u s products i s due to aerobic and anaerobic reactions of a non-enzymatic nature. The aerobic pathway of non-enzymatic browning i n c i t r u s products required oxygen, which may enter i n a s e p t i c a l l y packed products by dissolved from the headspace or penetrate through packaging material (8). Ascorbic acid destruction rates were d i r e c t l y proportional to the i n i t i a l concentration of dissolved oxygen i n several model sys tems (8,15,16). Storage studies of the loss of ascorbic acid potency i n canned orange juices have shown an i n i t i a l period of rapid loss of vitamin C that was caused by the presence of free oxygen (4,5) . However, the electronic structure of oxygen has two unpaired electrons at the energy l e v e l of π antibonding, i n t r i p l e t state. The reaction of oxygen, therefore, i s spin-forbidden with ground state molecules of singlet m u l t i p l i c i t y such as ascorbic acid (17) (Fig. 1, reaction a ) . Transition metals, e.g. i r o n and copper, with their l a b i l e d-electrons system, are well suited to catalyze redox reaction. Stable paramagnetic states, r e s u l t i n g from the presence of unpaired electrons, are common for t r a n s i t i o n metals and f a c i l i t a t e their reaction with free radicals or t r i p l e t molecules, such as oxygen, which i s b i - r a d i a l i n the t r i p l e t state (17) ( F i g . 1, reaction b ) . Thus, they are able to remove this spin r e s t r i c t i o n between oxygen and ascorbic acid and thereby promote the oxidation of the s i n g l e t molecule ( F i g . 1, reaction b ) . Oxygen could interact with other molecules i n the t r i p l e t state ( F i g . 1, reaction c ) . Activated mole cules of oxygen i n the singlet state (singlet oxygen) could oxidize d i r e c t l y with s i n g l e t molecules ( F i g . 1, reaction d). This study was conducted i n an attempt to understand better the e f f e c t of oxygen on non-enzymatic browning of c i t r u s juices and the involvement of metals i n t h i s process. Materials and Methods L-ascorbic acid, EDTA-Na2, metaphosphoric acid, dichlorophenolindophenol, sodium benzoate and potassium hydroxide were purchased from BDH Chemicals Ltd. (Poole, England), and hydrochloric acid 37% and c i t r i c acid from Merck (Darmstadt, FRG); ascorbate oxidase was obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO). Single-strength grapefruit juice was reconstituted from a fresh APV evaporator concentrate of 58° B r i x with d i s t i l l e d water to 11.2° Brix and poured into 200-ml glass b o t t l e s . The bottles were f i l l e d with j u i c e to a headspace which by calculation was found to provide d i f f e r e n t amounts of oxygen per ml of j u i c e . The j u i c e was preserved with 600 ppm sodium benzoate. Ascorbic acid was determined by t i t r a t i o n with 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (18). The color of the j u i c e was determined d i r e c t l y with a Gardner Tristimulus Colorimeter, model KL 10. The instrument was calibrated against a white plate, L=91.6, a=1.8, b=H-1.8.


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Results are the means of t r i p l i c a t e s , and i n the figures each error bar (I) denotes the standard deviation.


Results and Discussion Non-enzymatic browning of grapefruit j u i c e i s accelerated by increasing oxygen concentration. During the f i r s t days of storage there was a lag period where the browning rate was low. After this period, the browning rate accelerated and decreased once more a f t e r a l l the ascorbic acid had been degradated ( F i g . 2). Figure 3 i l l u s t r a t e s the l i n e a r relationship between browning and the amount of oxygen. In contrast to j u i c e browning, ascorbic acid degradation was rapid during the f i r s t period of storage ( F i g . 4). Figures 5 and 6 i l l u s t r a t e the l i n e a r relationship between ascorbic acid oxidation and oxygen concentration, and the c o r r e l a t i o n between browning and ascorbic a c i d degradation. In order to better understand the e f f e c t of ascorbic acid on non-enzymatic browning of c i t r u s j u i c e s , we oxidized endogenous ascorbic acid i n grapefruit with ascorbic acid oxidase. The enzyme oxidized ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid and H2O without forming H 0 (19). This study has shown that grapefruit j u i c e treated with the enzyme, browned without developing a lag period. The treated j u i c e browned anaerobically, but i n an aerobic environment the browning rate was s i g n i f i c a n t l y higher (Fig. 7). I t was demonstrated that oxygen i s involved i n browning reactions not only to convert ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid, but also to convert some other reductones generated from dehydroascorbic a c i d to by-products which form brown pigments. The brown pigments which were formed through the oxidative pathway are almost twice those formed through the anaerobic pathway. This e f f e c t could be derived from the involvement of H2O2 and oxy- r a d i c a l s i n the aerobic oxidation pathway of ascorbic acid (20,21). The oxy-radicals may generate carbonyls and amino acid free radicals which, by polymerization, could accelerate the formation of more brown pigments. Although the i n h i b i t i o n of ascorbic acid oxidation i n c i t r u s juices (22,23) and other foods by EDTA was reported by several researchers (22-24), the p o s s i b i l i t y that EDTA could i n h i b i t nonenzymatic browning i n grapefruit or other c i t r u s juices has not been explored. The r e s u l t s i l l u s t r a t e d i n Figures 8 and 9 showed that EDTA inhibited non-enzymatic browning and ascorbic acid oxidation i n grapefruit j u i c e . This demonstrates the involvement of metal ions in the non-enzymatic browning of grapefruit j u i c e and possibly of other c i t r u s products. The involvement of metal ions, oxygen, and oxygen species in non-enzymatic browning of grapefruit j u i c e could be described by the following reactions: 2

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TIME (days) Figure 7. The e f f e c t of ascorbic acid oxidation by ascorbic acid oxidase on grapefruit j u i c e browning under d i f f e r e n t conditions. Δ, the presence of nitrogen; A, control i n the presence of 9.65 ymole oxygen/ml j u i c e ; 0, grapefruit j u i c e treated with ascorbic acid oxidase (1 U/5 ml juice) i n the presence of nitrogen; #, grapefruit j u i c e treated with ascorbic acid oxidase (1 U/5 ml juice) i n the presence of oxygen.


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Figure 8. The effect of a chelating agent (EDTA) on non-enzymatic browning of grapefruit j u i c e incubated at 23±2°C. ·, control j u i c e i n the presence of 9.65 umole 02/ml; 0, as control, but with added 100 uM EDTA.

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The e f f e c t of EDTA i n oxidation reaction i s complicated. EDTA is known to accelerate ascorbic acid oxidation by f e r r i c ions at neutral pH (21,25,26). In a medium at the same pH, EDTA also enhanced the formation of hydroxyl r a d i c a l s by f e r r i c ion i n the presence of ascorbic acid (21,25). I t i s known that the redox p o t e n t i a l of the F e / F e pair can vary by complexing ligands (27) . EDTA reduces the redox p o t e n t i a l of F e (28) and this increases the rate constant transfer of the electron from F e to H 0 , which i s formed during autooxidation of ascorbic acid (29), and decomposition of the l a t t e r to H0-. However, at low pH 3-4, EDTA was found to i n h i b i t ascorbic acid oxidation by f e r r i c ions (29) . Thus, the form the metal chelate takes, as a function of pH, plays a key role i n i t s effectiveness as a c a t a l y s t . Cupric ions are known to accelerate ascorbic acid oxidation; however, EDTA i n h i b i t s i t s c a t a l y t i c e f f e c t at both neutral and low pH (24). C i t r i c j u i c e s contain i r o n and copper ions (30,31) at a concen t r a t i o n which could catalyze ascorbic acid oxidation. Contamination of c i t r u s juices by t r a n s i t i o n metals w i l l a f f e c t the rate of oxidative browning, especially i n products exposed to a i r , such as c i t r u s j u i c e s stored i n p l a s t i c metallized laminate bags which are permeable to oxygen. + 3

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Acknowledgment This work was

supported i n part by the Gan-Shmuel Factory,

Israel.

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