Isolation of individual hop iso-α-acids stereoisomers by β-cyclodextrin.

• Main Authors: Khatib, Alfi, Wilson, Erica G., Moses, Supardi, Robert, Verpoorte
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15333/1/Isolation%20of%20individual%20hop%20iso.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15333/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.06.011

Individual iso-α-acids that are responsible for the bitter taste of beer need to be isolated because these acids are required as reference standards in quantitative analysis and when studying the parameters which effect the quality of beer. However, these pure compounds are very expensive, due to in...