Claim · model-written summary
Adding active GGT turned fresh garlic puree green, whereas water or heat-treated GGT did not.
- Taxon
- garlic
Allium sativume0 - Treatment
- addition of GGTe0
- Gene
- GGTe0
- Outcome
- turned greene0
- Direction
- turned greene0
- Comparator
- water or heat-treated GGTe0
Not reportedMaterialCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“garlic puree (which was prepared from fresh garlic) turned green upon addition of GGT but the color of garlic puree remained unchanged when either water or heat-treated GGT (which has no activity due to heat treatment) was used”
Title
Lei Li; Dan Hu; Ying Jiang; et al. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2008. doi:10.1021/jf072470j
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Cold storage facilitated GGT activity in garlic bulbs.
- Intervention effect Warm storage inhibited GGT activity in garlic bulbs.
- Association Total thiosulfinates in garlic puree increased with storage time at 4 degrees C.
- Association Total thiosulfinates in garlic puree decreased with storage time at 35 degrees C.
- Mechanism GGT activity was implicated as a direct factor in garlic greening.