This work aimed to evaluate the effect of certain factors on the production of volatile phenols from the metabolism of p-coumaric acid by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) (Lactobacillus plantarum, L. collinoides and Pediococcus pentosaceus). The studied factors were: pH, L-malic acid concentration, glucose and fructose concentrations and aerobic/anaerobic conditions. It was found that, in the pH range of 3.5 to 4.5, ...
This study focuses on the activity of wine against the important food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. The kinetics of inactivation of two strains of C. jejuni (one food-borne and one clinical) were characterised in various scenarios of exposure to wine and wine components. Undiluted wine was found to rapidly inactivate C. jejuni (>6D inactivation within 30 s); further inactivation data were obtained from e...
The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of wine phenolic aldehydes, flavonoids and tannins on growth and viability of strains of Oenococcus oeni and Lactobacillus hilgardii. Cultures were grown in ethanol-containing MRS/TJ medium supplemented with different concentrations of phenolic aldehydes or flavonoids and monitored spectrophotometrically. The effect of tannins was evaluated by monitoring the pr...
A model stomach, containing a food matrix and a synthetic gastric Xuid, was used to study the bactericidal eVect of ingested wine on Listeria innocua. Volumes of wine equivalent to the ingestion of one glass and half a bottle, led, over a period of less than 2 h, to a reduction of 3 and 4 logarithmic cycles of the initial population respectively. The inXuence of ethanol and organic acids, wine constituents with...
The heat resistance of three strains of Dekkera/Brettanomyces (Dekkera anomala PYCC 5153, Dekkera bruxellensis PYCC 4801 and Dekkera/Brettanomyces 093) was evaluated at different temperatures between 32.5 and 55ºC. Thermal inactivation tests were performed in tartrate buffer solution (pH 4.0) and in wines. In the studies employing buffer as the heating menstruum, measurable thermal inactivation began only at te...
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