Currently the natural crude oil depletion has been brought into awareness. This affects many industries including petrochemical manufacturing. As a result, there are many attempts to develop novel processes to produce substitutes to such petrochemical products including plastics. Polylactic acid, made from polymerization of optically pure isomer of lactic acid, is one of such examples. In addit...

BACKGROUND Lactic fermentation of foods increases the availability of iron as shown in a number of studies throughout the years. Several explanations have been provided such as decreased content of inhibitory phytate, increased solubility of iron, and increased content of lactic acid in the fermented product. However, to our knowledge, there are no data to support that the bioavailability of ir...

Lactic acid bacteria are industrially important microorganisms recognized for their fermentative ability mostly in their probiotic benefits as well as lactic acid production for various applications. Nevertheless, lactic acid fermentation often suffers end-product inhibition which decreases the cell growth rate. The inhibition of lactic acid is due to the solubility of the undissociated lactic ...

The lactic acid bacteria (LAB) involved during the spontaneous fermentation of cereals (maize,millet, sorghum) for the production of indigenous foods (‘akamu’, ‘kunu-zaki’) were quantified and identified. The lactic acid bacteria counts varied during the fermentation of the cereals while the titratable acidity (TTA) increased with reduction in pH. Identification of isolates using API 50CHL syst...

the ability of whey protein concentrate (wpc) (1% w/v) and/or honey (2% and 4% w⁄v) to improve lactic acid bacteria (streptococcus thermophilus and lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus) growth and viability in yoghurt during a 21 day period of storage was investigated. another focus of this study was to examine fermentation kinetics and post-acidification rates through ph and lactic acid...

SO-CAETID fermentation lactic acids are generally believed to be inactive, since it was ascertained by Phelps & Palmer [1917] and Pederson et al. [1926] that optically inactive lactic acid was produced in many natural fermentations. The lactic acid in Sake was found to be the inactive form, although not only inactive lactic acid-producing organisms (Lactobacillus sake), but also optically activ...

Kinetic data are needed to develop basic understanding of fermentation processes and to permit rational design of continuous fermentation processes. The kinetics of the fermentation of glucose to lactic acid have been studied at six constant pH levels between 4. 5 and 6.0 by measuring the instantaneous rates of bacterial growth and of lactic acid formation throughout each fermentation. It was f...

Vegetables may be preserved by fermentation, direct acidification, or a combination of these, along with pasteurization, to yield products with an extended shelf life and enhanced safety.  Effect of lowering the pH, either by adding acid or lactic fermentation, on thermal process requirements for canned vegetables was investigated. Malic acid was preferred for acidification of canned vegetables...

H����� V., M������ K., R������� M. (2004): Modern method of lactic acid recovery from fermentation broth. Czech J. Food Sci., 22: 87–94. Electrodialysis was used for lactic acid recovery from fermentation broth. In the first step, lactate was recovered and concentrated by desalting electrodialysis, and the second step was electroconversion of lactate to lactic acid by water-splitting electrodia...

The traditional CaCO3-based fermentation process generates huge amount of insoluble CaSO4 waste. To solve this problem, we have developed an efficient and green D-lactic acid fermentation process by using ammonia as neutralizer. The 106.7 g/L of D-lactic acid production and 0.89 g per g of consumed sugar were obtained by Sporolactobacillus inulinus CASD with a high optical purity of 99.7% by ad...