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Technological, physicochemical and sensory characteristics of a Brazilian semi-hard goat cheese (coalho) with added probiotic lactic acid bacteria
- Source :
- Scientia Agricola, Vol 69, Iss 6, Pp 370-379 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Universidade de São Paulo, 2012.
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Abstract
- Over the past few years, the use of probiotics, which are capable of exerting beneficial effects on the composition of intestinal microbiota, has increased. Cheeses have been suggested as a better carrier of probiotic bacteria than other fermented milk products. The effect of added cultures of probiotic lactic acid bacteria on the quality of a Brazilian goat semi-hard cheese (coalho) was assessed during 21 days of storage at 10 ºC as follows: C1, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis and L. lactis subsp. Cremoris (standard cheese); C2, Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA-5); C3, Lactobacillus paracasei (Lactobacillus casei-01); C4, BBifidobacterium lactis (BB12); and C5, L. acidophilus, L. paracasei and B. lactis. Differences in some physico-chemical, experimental texture and proteolysis parameters were found among the assessed cheeses. All of them presented high luminosity (L*) with predominance of the yellow component (b*). Numbers of lactic acid bacteria in the cheeses were greater than 10(7) cfu g-1 during storage. Cheeses with the added probiotic strains alone and in co-culture were better accepted than cheeses without the probiotic strains. It is suggested that goat "coalho" cheese could be a potential carrier of probiotic lactic acid bacteria.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 01039016 and 1678992X
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Scientia Agricola
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3204d664815429ab3f0208425a94ab6
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-90162012000600005