I would like to measure ethanol levels in tropical fruits in the field. Is anybody familiar with a cheap and reliable method?
Hi Omer,
Crude but field-friendly methods were described by Dudley (2002) and Dominy (2004):
Dudley (2002) - doi: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00002.x
Dominy (2004) - doi: 10.1093/icb/44.4.295
More recently, Robert Dudley (UC-Berkeley) and Christina Campbell (Cal State Northridge) have been using portable GC to measure the ethanol contents of fruits on BCI. Here are links to their work:
http://www.stri.si.edu/english/about_stri/headline_news/news/article.php?id=1683
http://meeting.physanth.org/program/2015/session45/campbell-2015-dietary-ethanol-ingestion-by-free-ranging-spider-monkeys-ateles-geoffroyi-an-examination-of-the-drunken-monkey-hypothesis.html
Good luck! -nate
http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/4/295.full
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00002.x/abstract
You can try ATAGO products.... there are very good portable equipment. for instance
Digital Hand-held "PEN" Ethyl Alcohol Refractometer PEN-Ethanol(V)..... which fruits are you interesting to test ???
Thank you for the answer.
I would like to look at wild fleshy fruits (species yet unknown).
If this fruits are citrus type - you can try SenzyTec As well....
Unfortunately, they are not really similar to citrus fruits.
I will look at the ATAGO device. I was not familiar with them.
Thanks a lot!
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