It is well known that cell-free alcoholic fermentation shows the HardenYoung effect: when sugar is fermented by dialyzed Lebedev maceration juice in the presence of orthophosphate and all known coenzymes, the rate of fermentation decreases markedly after the free phosphate is exhausted (cf. Meyerhof (1)). This phenomenon is due to the coupling between dehydrogenation of triose phosphate and bin...

Resveratrol (RT) has been suggested to have a protective effect against cardiovascular diseases. We analyzed the concentration of RT in red wine samples at early stages of aging and old vintage wines, by a combination of normal and reverse phase HPLC. Although we have previously reported that RT contents in red wine samples, made from eight grapevines grown in Hokkaido, Japan, after malolactic ...

Over the past 30 years the role of alcohol (ethanol) in the development of acute and chronic pancreatitis has been intensively investigated. However, ethanol is generally consumed in form of alcoholic beverages which contain numerous non-alcoholic compounds. At least on gastric acid secretion it has been convincingly demonstrated that alcohol and alcoholic beverages have markedly different effe...

Routine identification of yeast behavior is essential to measure the control of the alcohol production process and to maintain product quality standards. This work utilized the non-hydrogen sulfide production and flocculation traits as characteristic strain markers for the evaluation of cell recycling during the alcoholic fermentation process for production of sugarcane alcohol. This study eval...