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Background of The Study

This document provides background information on the study. It discusses motives for alcohol consumption including coping with stress and social influences. It defines wine as a fermented grape juice and notes cucumber is commonly eaten raw or pickled. The purpose is to produce and evaluate wine from pureed cucumbers. Specifically, the study aims to determine the quality attributes of color, taste and aroma of cucumber wine and compare them to commercial wines. The significance is this could discover a new wine product and increase consumer knowledge about wine options. The scope is limited to production and testing in one location over four weeks.

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Background of The Study

This document provides background information on the study. It discusses motives for alcohol consumption including coping with stress and social influences. It defines wine as a fermented grape juice and notes cucumber is commonly eaten raw or pickled. The purpose is to produce and evaluate wine from pureed cucumbers. Specifically, the study aims to determine the quality attributes of color, taste and aroma of cucumber wine and compare them to commercial wines. The significance is this could discover a new wine product and increase consumer knowledge about wine options. The scope is limited to production and testing in one location over four weeks.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Two motives for alcohol consumption have been emphasized in the

etiological and the reasons for drinking alcohol, to cope with stress and also people

drink alcohol because of social influences. A number of different motives for

drinking alcohol have been examined, including drinking to enhance sociability, to

increase power, to escape problems, to get drunk, for enjoyment, or for realistic

reasons (Scott 2015).

Cucumber a long green-skinned fruit with watery flesh usually eaten in raw

salads or pickled, the climbing plant of the gourd family that yields cucumber,

native to the Himalayan regions. It is usually widely cultivated but very rare in the

wild. Cucumber is the fourth most important vegetable crop worldwide and is a

model system for other cucurbitaceae, a family that includes melon, watermelon,

pumpkin and squash (Shen et al., 2014).

According to Amerine (2019) wine is a fermented juice of the grape.

Genus vitis, one species, V. Vinifera (often erroneously called the European

grape), is used almost exclusively. Beverage produces from V. Labrusca, the

native American grape and from other grape species are also considered wines.

When other fruit are fermented to produce a kind of wine, the name of the fruit is

included as in the terms peach wine and blackberry wine.


Wine contains powerful antioxidants which are arguably more effective

than vitamin C and E, also in eating, exercise, quality, sleep and balanced healthy

lifestyle. It bind with free radicals and will prevent the formation of cloths in our

blood vessels.

It is in this light that the purpose of this study is to produce wine out of

puree cucumber.

Statement of the problem

This study aimed to produced wine out of puree cucumber (cucumis

satirus).

It specifically seeks to answered the following questions:

a. What is the quality of the products in terms of the following:

a.1 Color?

a.2 Taste?

a.2 Aroma?

b. Determined if there is any significant difference between puree

cucumber as wine in commercial wine in terms of the following:

b.1 Color

b.2 Taste

b.3 Aroma
Significant of the study

This study will be able to contribute research based and knowledge about

the wine made of cucumber. The people who benefited this study were the

following:

Community- This will help our community by discovering a new wine

made from cucumber.

Consumers- This study will help the consumers to be more

knowledgeable in buying wine products.

Scope and Delimitation

This study will be conducted at Barangay Bolong particularly in Tabuk,

Bolong Zamboanga City. This study will take four (4) weeks to complete the

research.

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