Abstract
ABSTRACT There has been a growing demand for products from organic agriculture for the food market. Brazil leads the production of sugarcane spirits and produces about 1.6 billion liters/year. New technologies have been sought throughout the supply chain to improve production, and organic raw material has been used in the production of sugar cane for the production of beverages. This study aimed to define the physicochemical and chromatographic profiles of eleven organic sugarcane spirits samples from various Brazilian states. The secondary components and contaminants were identified and quantified through physicochemical analyses, HPLC and gas chromatography (GC). A significant percentage of the organic sugarcane spirits samples contained concentrations of components that were above the limits required by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Provisioning (MAPA), specifically the esters (18.20%), copper and dry extract (9.10%). This contamination is caused by bad conditions employed during the production process, which are not in compliance with the good manufacturing practices determined and legislated by Brazilian law.
Highlights
The organic sugarcane spirits are characterized by being produced without the addition of any pesticide type and/or additives of a chemical nature, because in such spirits only the use of organic products that occur in the planting of the sugarcane is allowed
The characteristics of the organic sugarcane spirits differ those of the sugarcane spirits without pesticides (WOP) and from the conventional, in that the sugarcane spirits WOP do not present the addition of chemical products in the soil cultivation, some type of applied chemical product can be used in the plantation
It can be observed that 36.40% of the samples were outside the standard recommended by MAPA as to the content of esters (18.20%), copper (9.10%) and the dry extract (9.10%)
Summary
The organic sugarcane spirits are characterized by being produced without the addition of any pesticide type and/or additives of a chemical nature, because in such spirits only the use of organic products that occur in the planting of the sugarcane is allowed. The characteristics of the organic sugarcane spirits differ those of the sugarcane spirits WOP and from the conventional, in that the sugarcane spirits WOP do not present the addition of chemical products in the soil cultivation, some type of applied chemical product can be used in the plantation. In the sugarcane spirits of conventional cultivation, the cane is produced with the use of pesticides and synthetic pesticides, that can influence the soil negatively, unless correct administration of the dosages of those substances in the sugarcane plantations occurs and phytosanitary problems are avoided or excluded. In that process the acceleration of the maturation of the cane used for sugarcane spirit production by the addition of chemical products can occur
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