A study of physico-chemical properties, the instrumental measurement of colour and texture was carried out on ten di erent brands of traditional Croatian dry fermented sausage known as Slavonian Kulen. Basic physico-chemical properties showed large variability (p < 0.05), especially the collagen content. This can be related to di erent recipes used by di erent producers, and di erent stages of ...

The influence of indigenous starter cultures on the free fatty acids content during ripening of »salsiccia«, a typical dry fermented sausage produced in the Basilicata region, was studied. Three batches of »salsiccia« were produced using different starter mixtures (Lactobacillus sakei G20 and Staphylococcus xylosus S81; L. sakei G20 and S. xylosus S142; L. sakei G20 and S. xylosus S206), while ...

BACKGROUND The effects of nitrite (0, 100, and 200 mg kg(-1)) and nisin (0, 250, and 500 mg kg(-1)) on biogenic amine formation in sucuk were investigated by utilising a central composite design of response surface methodology. RESULTS The addition of nitrite led to decreased levels of tryptamine, 2-phenylethylamine, putrescine, cadaverine, tyramine, and histamine, whereas nisin decreased the...

The likelihood that products prepared from raw meat and milk may act as vehicles for antibiotic-resistant bacteria is currently of great concern in food safety issues. In this study, a collection of 94 tetracycline-resistant (Tc(r)) lactic acid bacteria recovered from nine different fermented dry sausage types were subjected to a polyphasic molecular study with the aim of characterizing the hos...

Sausages, produced with/without nitrite and nitrate, were fermented at 21°C (RH: 65-74%) or 8°C (RH: 75-85%). All sausages were dried until a final weight loss of 44% and analyzed for physicochemical and microbiological data. The removal of NO2 /NO3 caused an increase in lipid oxidation, although the decrease in the fermentation temperature proved to be effective in controlling the lipid oxidat...

About 10% of 346 Penicillium cultures isolated from mold-fermented sausage synthesized the toxic metabolite penicillic acid on liquid media. Five of these producing cultures inoculated onto sausage failed to produce this toxin in up to 70 days of ripening. Several amino acids normally occurring in meat (cysteine, glutathione, arginine, histidine, and lysine) were found capable of readily reacti...

AIMS Four local small-scale factories were studied to determine the sources of enterococci in traditional fermented sausages. METHODS AND RESULTS Different points during the production of a traditional fermented sausage type (fuet) were evaluated. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR was used to type 596 Enterococcus isolates from the final products, the initial meat batter, the casi...