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The chemistry of tea fermentation

✍ Scribed by E. A. H. Roberts


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1952
Tongue
English
Weight
598 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5142

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## Abstract Fermenting tea leaf produces methanol as the result of enzymic demethylation of pectins contained in the leaf. The enzyme concerned (which was isolated and purified) is very similar to pectin‐methylesterases found in other plants. The activity of tea pectin‐methylesterase is partially