우리나라 남해안에서 대량 양식하고 있는 굴의 효율적인 이용을 위한 연구로서, 상온에서 장기간 저장이 가능하며 생굴의 풍미를 지닌 기름담금 염장발효 굴 시제품을 가공하였고, 이들의 성분특성, 저장안정성 및 관능적 특성 등에 대하여 살펴보았다. 기름담금 염장발효 굴의 일반성분 조성은 수분이 61.6%, 조단백질 12.0%, 조회분이 16.3% 및 휘발성 염기질소량은 34.3 ㎎/100 g이었고, 총아미노산의 함량은 11,496.0 ㎎/100 g으로 Asp, Glu, Pro, Gly, Cys, Leu, Phe 및 Lys 등이 주요 구성아미노산이었다. 구성지방산은 18:1n-9의 조성비가 높았고, 20:5n-3와 22:6n-3 등의 고도불포화지방산도 많이 함유되어 있었다. 정미성분으로는 Tau, Glu, Pro, Gly, Ala, β-Ala, Lys 등의 유리아미노산과 betaine 및 Na, K이온의 함량이 많았다. 기름담금 염장발효 굴을 가온 검사 및 실온에 저장하면서 품질안정성을 살펴본 결과, 저장중 품질이 안정하게 유지되고 있음을 보여주었고, 저장기간이 경과할수록 관능적 특성이 좋아지는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 본 시제품을 굴 젓갈과 굴 훈제기름담금 통조림, 앤초 비필레 등 시판 관련제품들과 관능적 기호도를 비교하였을 때, 기호적 측면에서 조금도 손색이 없었다.
To develop the new type of salt-fermented seafoods, the salt-fermented oysters in olive oil (product SO) were manufactured, and food components and quality characteristics of product SO were examined. The optimum processing condition for product SO is as follows. The raw oyster with no shell was washed off with 3% saline solution. Then dewatered, and dipped in the brine-salting solution made up with saturated saline solution and oyster sauce (2 : 1 v/v) mixture added 1% sodium erythorbic acid and 0.2% polyphosphate. After salt-fer-mentation it ripened by brine salting at 5±1℃ for 15 days. Then dried at 15℃ for 4 hours with cool-air, and packed in No. 3B hexahedron type can. Finally, poured with olive oil and seamed it by double-seamer. The moisture, crude protein, crude ash and volatile basic nitrogen contents of the product SO were 61.6%, 12.0%, 16.3% and 34.3 mg/100 g, respectively. In taste-active components of the product SO, total amount of free amino acids is 2,335.4 mg/100 g and it has increased by 50% overall during salt-fermentation 15 day. Taurine, glutamic acid, proline, glycine, alanine, β-alanine and lysine were detected as principal free amino acids. The contents of inorganic ions were rich in Na and K ion, while the amounts of nucleotide and its related compounds and other bases except betaine were small. From the results of this research, the product SO had a superior organoleptic qualities compared with conventional oyster product, and could be reserved in good conditions for storage 90 days at room temperature.