QUALITY STANDARD OF CACHAÇAS PRODUCED IN THE VALE DO MUCURI – MG IN 2019

Abstract

The cachaça is a typical Brazilian drink, it is the second alcohol product most consumed in the country. This research aimed to analyse 10 distinct cachaças’s samples produced and marketed in the region of Vale do Mucuri – Minas Gerais. The liquors were analysed with its organoleptic properties, and by means of physicochemical procedures, they were analysed in order to determination of quality standards related to the secondary compounds. The results achieved were compared with the legal regulation, which regulates the quality parameters of liquor from sugarcane. Of all samples analysed, the parameters with less disapproval indices were furfural, methanol and related, both presented compliance in 80% of the samples. The alcohol content in the drink and its conformity with the alcohol levels expressed in the label occurred in 80% of the samples. The copper presented inadequate values in 40% of the sugarcane drinks analysed and the Ester and volatile Acidity levels presented were appropriate in 70% of it.