In order to study the changes of metabolites and anti-oxidant properties in the fermentation process of persimmon ferment, we investigated the active ingredient. The results show that during the fermentation of persimmon ferment, pH decreased continuously with time, while the total acid content increased continuously. With the fermentation, the content of soluble solids decreased continuously, and tended to be stable after 4 days of fermentation. The contents of total phenol and flavone show an overall increasing trend, which reaching 2.36±0.05 mg/mL and 0.58±0.01 mg/mL at the end of fermentation, respectively. The activity of SOD, protease, amylase and lipase reached the maximum value of 241.58±6.80 U/mL, 65.43±4.90 U/mL, 4.18±0.07 U/mL, 6.33±0.12 U/mL respectively at the sixth day from fermentation. Anti-oxidation capacity presents the characteristics from rapid rise to stabilization. The DPPH·, ·OH, ABTS+·, O2-· removal rates were as high as 90.12%±1.85%, 45.44%±1.42%, 94.73%±1.00%, 88.63%±2.11% respectively after 6 days of fermentation, indicating that lactic acid bacteria fermentation greatly improved the anti-oxidation capacity of persimmon ferment. Correlation analysis shows that the increase of anti-oxidation properties of persimmon ferment was significantly positively correlated with the changes of total phenol, flavonoids and SOD content (P<0.05). |