Abstract:
Tej is Ethiopian traditional home made alcoholic beverage. Tej is made from honey,
gesho and water. This study focused on the effect of honey concentration and amount of
gesho on the quality of Ethiopian honey wine; “Tej’’. Association of official Analytical
Chemists was used to determine physicochemical, microbiological and sensory (Panel
test overall organoleptic property) were performed in nine tej concentrations. The data
was subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) by using SPSS version 20 and Minitab
version 19.1.1 Software and mean separation by Tukey method and consider significant
difference at 95% level of confidence interval. Both honey concentration and amount of
gesho were significantly affect (p<0.05) on the physicochemical, microbial and sensory
properties of different tej samples. The mean ranged values of all organoleptic property
by non-panel test (1-5 scale) score. Thus it conclude that based on the tej quality
parameter results, identified the effects of factors on quality of tej and sample B18G7
(18
0
Bx honey and 7% gesho) was the best quality product by all parameter results in this
study. Based on this composition interested researchers to investigate the functionality
based on type of honey and the shelf life of tej.