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S A Parke1, G G Birch, D B MacDougall
1Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, UK.
Abstract:
D-glucono-1,5-lactone differs from D-glucopyranose only in that it has a C = O group instead of CHOH group at carbon atom number one. The molecule therefore possesses an intact 3,4 alpha-glycol group and is sweet. However, it autohydrolyses in water solution at room temperature, forming D-gluconic acid and D-glucono-1,4-lactone. As the solution pH falls it becomes sweet-sour and eventually almost completely sour as the generated hydronium ions dominate both the solution properties and the taste perceptions elicited. It is shown that the ratio of generated hydronium ions to unchanged lactone accords with anticipated taste quality during the first 28 min of autohydrolysis. Changes in both apparent specific volume and apparent isentropic compressibility illustrate increasing solute-solvent interaction and increasing disturbance of water structure during the course of autohydrolysis. These changes are consistent with the concurrent sweet to sour change, but do not explain the weak bitterness which also accompanies them.
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