Journal
JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
Volume 85, Issue 2, Pages 477-485Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.15015
Keywords
Aspergillus; caffeine degradation; fermentation; metabolomics; tea
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- Modern Agricultural Tea Industry System of Yunnan Province, China [2017KJTX007]
- Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System of China [CARS-23]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31560221]
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Natural microorganisms involved in solid-state fermentation (SSF) of Pu-erh tea have a significant impact on its chemical components. Aspergillus sydowii is a fungus with a high caffeine-degrading capacity. In this work, A. sydowii was inoculated into sun-dried green tea leaves for SSF. Metabolomic analysis was carried out by using UPLC-QTOF-MS method, and caffeine and related demethylated productswere determined byHPLC. The results showed that A. sydowii had a significant (P < 0.05) impact on amino acids, carbohydrates, flavonoids, and caffeine metabolism. Moreover, A. sydowii could promote the production of ketoprofen, baclofen, and tolbutamide. Along with caffeine degradation, theophylline, 3-methylxanthine, 1,7-dimethylxanthine, 1-methylxanthine, and 7-methylxanthine were increased significantly (P < 0.05) during inoculated fermentation, which showed that demethylation was the main pathway of caffeine degradation in A. sydowii secondary metabolism. The absolute quantification analysis showed that caffeine could be demethylated and converted to theophylline and 3-methylxanthine. Particularly, about 93.24% of degraded caffeine was converted to theophylline, 27.92 mg/g of theophylline was produced after fermentation.
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