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Enhancing Wine Production Potential: A Comparative Analysis of Fermentation Using Fresh and Dried Grape-Blueberry Mixtures with Different Yeast Strains

Version 1 : Received: 9 October 2023 / Approved: 9 October 2023 / Online: 10 October 2023 (10:26:37 CEST)

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Martín-Gómez, J.; García-Martínez, T.; Varo, M.Á.; Mérida, J.; Serratosa, M.P. Enhance Wine Production Potential by Using Fresh and Dried Red Grape and Blueberry Mixtures with Different Yeast Strains for Fermentation. Foods 2023, 12, 3925. Martín-Gómez, J.; García-Martínez, T.; Varo, M.Á.; Mérida, J.; Serratosa, M.P. Enhance Wine Production Potential by Using Fresh and Dried Red Grape and Blueberry Mixtures with Different Yeast Strains for Fermentation. Foods 2023, 12, 3925.

Abstract

Red fruits such as grapes and blueberries are known for their high content of bioactive compounds and antioxidants. In Mediterranean winemaking, traditional sun drying can be replaced by controlled airflow chamber drying which provides better quality, higher phenolic content, and increased antioxidants. This study aimed to increase the sugar content and phenolic compounds of the must by drying the fruits to 50% of their original moisture content. Two musts were prepared by combining fresh grapes and dried blueberries (M1), and the other using dried grapes and fresh blueberries (M2), followed by fermentation at 25 ºC with M05 Mead and X5 yeast strains. Must M2 showed the highest level of phenolic compounds, A520, total anthocyanins and antioxidant activity. During fermentation, the anthocyanin content increased mainly in the dried blueberry macerates, which raised between 4 to 5.5-fold. More bioactive compounds were extracted from wines produced by yeast inoculation despite shorter maceration times. Sensory analysis demonstrated consumer acceptance of the wines in terms of color, flavor and aroma. In conclusion, the use of red grapes in the production of blueberry red wine proved to be effective, providing sugars and higher must yields, while the dried fruits improved the fermentable sugar content and the levels of bioactive compounds, increasing the antioxidant capacity of the resulting red fruit wines.

Keywords

Wines; chamber drying technique; grape-blueberry synergy; bioactive compounds; antioxidant activity

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy

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