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ZentralbI. MikrobioI.
7
1992),
51 6
Gustav Fischer Verlag lena
[Istituto di Microbiologia Agraria e Tecnica, Universita di Bologna, Italia, Istituto di Industrie Agrarie,
Universita di Bologna]
Microbiological Research on Soft Drinks: Discolouring of Natural-
Flavoured Products
Grur ro CES RE
TURTUR
and A
TTILE
MINGUZZI
With 2 Figures
ey words discolouring of soft drinks, effects of sunlight, heat and yeasts
ummary
The results of experiments testing the effects of yeasts, sunlight, and temperature on the food dyes
tartrazinc, ponceau 4R, indigotin and azorubine used for colouring ginger soft drink) are reported. Light was
found to exert a greater influence than heat, and yeasts growth hastened colour degradation. Yeasts assimila
ted to varying extent the colouring compounds and, when failing to do it, showed a certain power of
adsorption by the no longer viable cells.
usammenfassung
Experirnentell wurde der EinfluB von Hefen, Sonnenlicht und Temperatur auf die Lebensmittelfarbstoffe
Tartrazin, Ponceau 4R, Indigotin und Azorubin gepriift, die Erfrischungsgetranken zugesetzt werden. Licht
zeigte einen starkeren EinfluB als Warme. Hefewachstum beschleunigte den Farbstoffabbau. Hefen assimilier
ten die getesteten Farbstoffe in unterschiedlichem AusmaB. Waren sie dazu unfahig, so konnten sie nicht mehr
lebcnsfahigen Zellen den Farbstoff absorbieren.
The legislation governing the manufacture and sale of non-alcoholic beverages in Italy
D.P.R. 19 maggio 1958 n 719) includes an extensive array of products whose composition
ranges from the richest in fruit juices to the richest in fruit juices to the poorest ones,
containing sugar, citric or tartaric acid and sundry flavourings
TURTUR
and S M J
19 75a ). Practically c ol ourne ss, soft drinks are usually enric hed with c ol ouri ng agents to
enhance their appeal. The food colouring substances permitted by the country s legislation
D .M. 22 di cem bre 1967) must re spond to given purity requirements that, effectively, ban
mineral and organic c ompounds d ee me d harmful to huma n healt h
ZONT
A and
ST NCHER
1989).
Non-alcohol ic beverages can be altered by acidophilic microorganisms - yeast espe
cially
TURTUR
and S M J 975b when their generally is higher than 2.5
TURTUR and S M J 1978a). Obviously the intensity of microbial growth is related to the
richness of t hei r nutrient content TURTUR and
S M J 978b; TURTUR
and
S M J
1978c;
TURTUR
and
S M J
1978d;
TURTUR
and
S M J
1979;
TURTUR
and
S M J
1984; TURTUR and M SS 1987; TURTUR et al. 1988).
A
discolouring of non-alcoholic beverages is a common occurrence, even when colou
ring agents other than those permitted today which must be listed on labels) are used.
Physico-chemical and microbiological factors are involved: among the former are molecular
instability of colouring agents to light, heat and oxygen and their insolubilization when metal
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52 G
C. TURTURA und A. MINGUZZI
ions (iron in particular) are present in water; among the latter are degradation and adsorption
by contaminating microorganisms.
The present study aimed to investigate the stability of the four most common colouring
agents used by the italian industry, i.e., tartrazine, azorubine, ponceau
and indigotin, for
the production of naturally flavoured, artificially coloured soft drinks. Exposure to sunlight,
temperature and contaminating yeasts were considered.
teri ls nd ethods
Sample testing
a) A first set of twelve samples AI -Ad from a lot of a carbonated (pH 3.5) ginger soft drink, in plain
glass, 120-ml commercial bottles, sealed with crown caps and kept in light at room temperature, were assayed
six months after bottling, i.e. immediately before shelf-life deadline date. Table I shows the label-listed
colouring agents and their concentrations, employed to give the beverage its original dark red hue.
All the samples showed evident signs of decolouration, ranging from a slight fading of the original hue to a
greenish-yellow of varying shade and intensity. Samples A
A
10
showed a sediment formed by dark red lumps
of variable number and size; there was no sediment in samples All and A
lz.
Because of blastomycetic cells were seen in the deposited material, microbiological analysis of the twelve
samples was made using yeast extract - malt extract agar WICKERHAM 1951) adjusted to pH 5. Isolated strains
were cultivated in malt extract LODDER and KREGER-VAN
Rtr
1952) at pH 5 and identified according to WALT
and YARROW (1984). The liquid of these samples was subjected to spectrophotometry analysis.
b) A second set of twelve samples (BI- B12) was taken from a lot of freshly bottled ginger drink showing no
visible signs of alteration. The samples BI- B
6
were exposed to sunlight, while samples B
7
-
B
12
were similarly
exposed, but covered with a thin sheet of aluminium. This exposition lasted two months.
Preparation of colouring-agent solutions
The individual colouring agents were prepared separately in aqueous solutions, adjusted with citric acid to
pH 3.5, and blended in the proportions most commonly employed in the soft-drink industry to colour ginger
beverage. These solutions were used for maximal adsobancy determination and for studying the effects of light
and temperature on their degradation. The solutions were therefore divided into two batches, which were
exposed as indicated before.
The tests were carried out in June, July and August - a period with a maximum temperature difference of
nearly 20 QC Through the test period all samples were measured for colouring agent intensity, the readings
being taken at peak-absorption wavelenght at four day intervals. The pH and the amounts of the dissolved
oxygen were measured too, but their levels remained unchanged.
Microbiological assays
The effects of the yeasts on the colouring agents were studied using the synthetic medium of
WILLIAMS
et
a . (1941) modified as follows: sucrose 100g, monopotassium phosphate (KH
2P04
)
I g, magnesium chloride
(MgCl
z
6H
20
0.25 g, calcium chloride (CaCl
z)
0.25 g, boric acid (H
3B 03
) 0.001 g, manganese chloride
(MnCh 4H
z
O 0.001 g, iron chloride (FeCI
3
6H
z
O 0.0005 g, potassium iodide (KJ) 0.0001 g, zinc chloride
(ZnCh) 0.0001 g, traces of copper sulphate (CUS04 5H
z
O), traces of thallium chloride (TaCl
s),
biotin
0,025 mg, distilled water 1000 m .
Adjusted with citric acid to pH 3.5 , this NF (nitrogen-free) medium was enriched either with
2 4g
ammonium nitrate per liter (AN medium) or with
6g
yeast extract (Difco) per liter (YE medium). The four
colouring agents under study were added to the three nutrient solutions at the concentrations used in the industry
and in all possible combinations: 15 solutions were thus obtained and studied.
The nutrient solutions were inoculated with a strain of
cch romyces cerevisi e
(10
4
cells/ml) which had
been isolated from the flocculent sediment of a contamined sample. Cultured repeatedly in liquid malt extract,
this strain showed the formation of a pulverulent sediment typical of
cch romyces cerevisi e
ZAMBONELLI
1988). The nutrient solutions were examined after two months incubation in the dark at
25C
for sediment and
discolouring, and then measured at the peak absorption wavelength of each dye.
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54 G. C. TURTUR und A. MINGUZZI
The differences in discolouration of the three nutrient solutions were compared in a series of Wilcoxon s
sample-dependent parameter tests SIEGEL1980). The data from the spectrophotometry and appearance analyses
were processed separately. For the latter the quality rating were translated into values on the following scale: 0
uncertain discolouring; I-very slight discolouring; 2-slight discolouring; 3-discolouring; 4-marked discolou
ring; 5-total discolouring.
esults and iscussion
Identification of microorganisms
The sediments of the altered samples Aj-A
lO
showed yeast cells with a degraded structure;
nonetheless numerous strains were isolated and ascribed to Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Sucrose was one of the sugars fermented. Given its geographic distribution in Italy C STELLI
1954 Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the yeasts most often responsible for the
contamination of both fruit juices and aroma-based soft drinks LLOYD 1975; TURTUR and
S M J 1978a; COMI et al. 1981). The isolation of yeasts from the sediment-free samples
ll
and
A
l
was negative. These samples were commercially sterile and free even of previous,
aborted microbe growth.
Dyes solutions: effects of light and temperature
Light and heat markedly influenced discolouration, the extent of their effects obviously
depending on dye Tab. 2 and 3). Table 2 shows that their influence is fairly strong on
tartrazine and azorubine and devastating on indigotin and ponceau R Comparing tables 2 and
Table 2. Influence of light and temperature on colouring agent degradation.
Colouring agent
max
Absorbance
initial final
Tartrazine
425 2.000 1.852
7.4
Ponceau 4R
505 1.300 0.000 100.0
Indigotin
610 2.150 0.000 100.0
Azorubine
515 1.480 1.288
13.0
Table 3. Influence of temperature on colouring agent degradation.
Colouring agent
max
Absorbance
initial
final
Tartrazine
425
2.000 1.980
1.0
Ponceau 4R
505
1.300 1.270
2.3
Indigotin
610
2.150 0.000
100.0
Azorubine
515 1.480
1.435
3.0
3 one sees that colour degradation is almost exclusively to be attributed to light exposure,
being very weak the effect of heat. Indigotin is the only exception, the effects of light and heat
matching only apparently see faster degradation patterns in Figs. 1 and 2 when both are
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c 0 0 I
2.0
1.5
W
0
Z
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G. C.
TURTURA
und A. MINGUZZI
Table 4.
Colouring agents compared a different stage of alteration.
Groups
Colour
Tartrazine Ponceau
4R Indigotin
Azorubine
of samples
Liquid
Sediment
AI)
AI)
AI)
AI)
AI, A
6
Yellow-orange Dark red
0.569
25 0.081
77
0.000
0.182
50
A
z.
A
7
, A
9
Yellow Dark red 0.523
31
0.046
87 0.000 100 0.189 48
A
3
, As As
Dark yellow Dark red 0.553
27
0.041
88
0.000
0.175 52
A
4
, A
IO
Greenish-yellow Brownish
0.553
27 0.007
98
0.000
100
0.153
58
All
Pale pink Absent
0.605
20
0.138 60 0.000 100 0.218 40
A
l2
Orange Absent 0.582 23 0.128
63
0.000
100
0.226
38
B -B
6
)2)
Unchanged
Absent
0.658 13 0.239 31 0.009
93
0.346
5
B
7 B 2 3
Unchanged Absent
0.756 a
0.346
0
0.132
a 0.364 a
I) Absorbance: the values are the ari thmetical mean
of
the groups
2) Samples exposed to light for two months
3) Samples kept in dark for two months
concomitant). Whereas colour vanishes under the combined influence of light and heat in about
15 days, it diminished by only about 2.5 in 10 days and did not vanish until about 70 days
under heat alone; ponceau 4R, on the other hand, remained unchanged over the first 10 days,
vanished after about 67 days under heat and light Fig. I), and remained unaltered throughout
the test period under heat alone Fig. 2). Tartrazine and azorubine, by contrast, showed a
remarkable stability under all test conditions.
Marketed samples: effects
of
light
Table 4 lists the results of the spectrophotometry analyses. The samples in the first set
showed amore or lessmarkeddiscolouration with
A i A
w
and without AI i and A 12 sediment;
those in the second set which were exposed to light B
j B
6
and dark
r
1z
for two months
showed no visible alterations
These findings evidence that: i) the decolouration pattern here closely coincides with that for
the pure colouring agents, i.e. degradation is limited for tartrazine and azorubine, more marked
for ponceau 4R and almost complete for indigotin; ii) tartrazine shows the greatest stability in
light sediment-free samples All and A d and to microorganisms AI-A
w
).
That the B
j B
6
samples showed no evident colour alterations although the extent of
tartrazine, azorubine and ponceau 4R degradation is considerable; evidently the complete
destruction of indigotin is without effect so as to raise the question of its necessity as a colouring
additive.
Yeast behaviour
Table 5 and 6 show the results of spectrophotometry and visual rating colour and sediment)
of the yeast-inoculated nutrient solutions. In spite od certain discrepancis, the two sets of values
can be easily integrated and their significance evaluated.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain showed a flocculent growth: in the inoculated nutrient
solutions the coloured aggregates cannot be easily dispersed on stirring. The state of cell
aggregation was similar in appearance and density to that found in samples
A
j
lO
;
this is a
character difficult to quantify and for which specific research is lacking: deposits of varying
consistency are formed in relation to nutrient medium condition, i.e. the lack of nutrients and the
lowering of the
values to the limits of yeast development
TuRTuRA
and
SAMAJA
1975a).
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57
Table 5. Spectrophotometric analysis of media NF nitrogen-free), AN with ammonium nitrate), YE with
yeast extract) enriched with tested gyes and inoculated with a strain of cch romyces cerevisi e after two
months incubation at 25T
Colouring
Nutrient solution NF Nutrient solution AN
Nutrient solution YE
agents )
Absorbance
Absorbance Absorbance
Control Inoculated
Control Inoculated Control Inoculated
T
0.959 0.959 0
0.959 0.959 0 0.959 0.237 75
P
0.482 0.444 8
0.482 0.208 57 0.456 0.222 51
I
0.061 0.000 100
0.061 0.000 100
0.061 0.000
100
A 0.036 0.027
26 0.036 0.009 76
0.066 0.009
87
T
0.886 0.886 0 0.921
0.854 7 0.921 0.638 31
A
0.041 0.036 12 0.041
0.018 57 0.046 0.009 81
T
1.000 1.000 0
0.959 0.721 25
0.921
0.553 10
P 0.495 0.495 0
0.495
0.260 48 0.495
0.125 75
T 0.921
0.854
7
0.921
0.745 19 0.921 0.553 40
I
0.071 0.004 94 0.066
0.004
93
0.066 0.004
93
A
0.044 0.044 0
0.044 0.035 20
0.044
0.035
20
P 0.509 0.509 0
0.509 0.310 39
0.538 0.347
36
A
0.046
0.046
0
0.046 0.027
41 0.051
0.022 56
I
0.076
0.009
88 0.071
0.004 94 0.071
0.004
94
P
0.495 0.456 8
0.495 0.208 58 0.482 0.208 57
I
0.056 0.004
92
0.051
0.004 91 0.051 0.000 100
T 1.000 1.000 0 0.959 0.678 29 1.000 0.678 32
A
0.044
0.044
0
0.044 0.038 14 0.044 0.031 30
P
0.523 0.523 0 0.538
0.301 44 0.523 0.301 43
T
0.921 0.921
0
0.886
0.886
0
0.921
0.509
45
A
0.046 0.004
90
0.046 0.004 90
0.046 0.004
90
0.066 0.004 93 0.071
0.009
88
0.071
0.001 94
T
0.92[
0.921 0 0.886
0.886 0 0.921
0.509 45
P 0.496 0.099 80
0.496 0.064 87 0.496 0.064 87
I 0.066
0.004
93 0.071
0.009 88
0.07[
0.004 94
P
0.456 0.456 0 0.456 0.168 63 0.456
[49
67
A
0.046 0.046
0
0.046 0.021 54 0.046
0.024
48
I 0.076
[3
83 0.076 0.009 88 0.076 0.009 88
T
1.000 1.000
0
0.921 0.745 19 1.000 0.638 36
A 0.048 0.048 0 0.048 0.037 28
0.050
0.030 40
P 0.509 0.509 0 0.523 0.292 44 0.553 0.319 12
I
0.066
0.009 87
0.066 0.009
87
0.076
0.009 88
Letter indicates colouring agent: T
=
tartrazine, P
=
ponceau 4R, ]
=
indigotin, A
=
azorubine
Type and amount of the nitrogen source in the nutrient solutions affected yeast growth, and
assimilation or destruction of the dyes.
The individual colouring agents were assimilated differently by the yeast strain tested:
indigotin completely, azorubine and ponceau 4R partially and tartrazine slightly or not at all;
thus, in a nitrogen-poor soft drink like ginger, in which the yeast behave as oligonitrophile
SACCHETTI and SAMAJA 1972), certain dyes enhance their growth, a fact which is apparently
linked to the nitrogen availability in the colouring agent s chemical structure.
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58 G. C.
TURTURA
und A.
MINGUZZI
Table 6. Visual rating of media NF (nitrogen-free), AN (with ammonium nitrate), YE (with yeast extract)
enriched with testeddyes and inoculatedwith a strain of
cch romyces erevisi e
after two months incubation
at 25C
Colouring
Nutrient solution NF
Nutrient solution AN Nutrient solution YE
agents )
Liquid and sediment Liquid and sediment Liquid and sediment
T
Uncertaind iscolouring Uncertain discolouring
Uncertain discolouring
No sediment
No sediment Yellowish sediment
P
Uncertain discolouring Discolouring Marked discolouring
Very slight red sediment Red sediment
Red sediment
Total discolouring
Total discolouring Total discolouring
Greyish sediment Greyish sediment
Greyish sediment
A
Slight discolouring Discolouring Marked discolouring
Very slight pink sediment
Pink sediment Pink sediment
TA Uncertain discolouring
Very slight discolouring Discolouring-)
No sediment Pink sediment Pink sediment
TP
Uncertain discolouring
Discolouring) Discolouring )
No sediment Red sediment Red sediment
TI
Uncertain discolouring Very slight discolouring Slight discolouring
No sediment Greyish sediment
Greyish sediment
AP Slight discolouring Discolouring Marked discolouring
No sediment
Red sediment Red sediment
AI
Very slight discolouring Marked discolouring Total discolouring
No sediment Reddish sediment Reddish sediment
PI Uncertain discolouring Slight discolouring Marked discolouring
No sediment Reddish sediment Red sediment
TAP
Slight discolouring
Discolouring-)
Discolouring-)
Slight red sediment Red sediment Red sediment
TAl Slight discolouring
Discolouring-)
Discolouring-)
No sediment Red sediment
Red sediment
TPI Slight discolouring Discolouring ) Discolouring-)
Slight red sediment Red sediment Red sediment
PAl Uncertain discolouring Marked discolouring Marked discolouring
No sediment Red sediment Red sediment
TAPI
Uncertain discolouring
Discolouring-) Discolouring-)
No sediment
Red sediment
Red sediment
Letter indicates colouring agent: T = tartrazine, P = ponceau 4R,
indigotin, A= azorubin
2)
Green liquid,
3)
Yellowish liquid,
4)
Greenish-yellow liquid,
5)
Greenish-orange liquid
A cause of decolouration is linked to the adsorption of the dye by the dead yeast cells: this
is true expecially for ponceau 4R. It cannot be ruled out however that some of the dye
disappears, because of the formation of the Ieuco structure as effect of a long stay in a
reducing environment, like the one which is formed in the soft drink by the strongly
deoxygenating saccharomycetic growth.
The statistical data of both spectrophotometry and appearance values show significant
differences in the extent of the discolouring found with the dyes in the three nutrient solutions.
The comparison NF AN NF YE and ANIYE were highly significant for the spectrophotomet
ric data at P=O.00020,
P=O OOOOl
P=O.00070 respectively. The appearance ratings showed
that the statistical significance of the discolouration differences between solutions was less
than for the spectrophotometry: P=O.015 for
NF AN
P=OOlOfor
NF YE
P=O.0209 for N
YEo
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Conclusions
Light, heat and yeasts are the most frequent causes of discolouration in aroma-based soft
drinks. The combined effects of light and heat (the latter acting less actively) induced a
complete decolouration of indigotin and ponceau 4R and a partial one of tartrazine and
azorubine, the four colouring agents studied.
Yeast development was affected by the dyes, which were assimilated to varying extent:
indigotin completely, azorubine and ponceau 4R partially and tartrazine not at all. The failure
of the yeasts to utilize the dyes does not preclude their adsorption by dead cells to an extent
depending on colouring agent.
It must be noted the synergism of light and yeast metabolic
activity in the colour degradation processes.
Protecting soft drinks from microbial vegetation - yeasts especially - and from direct
exposure to sunlight in the best way of preventing discolouration.
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