ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Zahra Nilchian1 , Sayed H. Razavi2 and Ebrahim Rahimi3
1Department of Food Sciences and Technology, School of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran.
2Department of Food Science & Engineering, Faculty of Biosystem Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(3):1547-1557
© The Author(s). 2013
Received: 06/11/2012 | Accepted: 27/12/2012 | Published: 30/09/2013
Abstract

Cucumber fermentation is a natural process that lactic acid bacteria are effective in quality of product. In this assay we put the cucumbers in brine with 5% and 7% NaCl (w/v) that inoculated with different values of specific L. plantarum strain and analyzed for microbial and physicochemical characteristics. The maximum numbers of L. plantarum strain was 8.48-8.57 log10 cfu/ml in 5% NaCl solutions with 6×108 cfu/ml bacterial inocula but the numbers of yeasts was 7.21-7.24 log10 cfu/ml in the 9th day. In high inoculated 7% NaCl solution the lower numbers of aerobic mesophilic was 6.84 log10 cfu/ml in this day. The value of pH 3.42 and titratable acidity 0.58% observed in high inoculated 5% NaCl solution in the 15th day. During the storage, the numbers of L. plantarum (4.85-6.61 log10 cfu/ml), yeasts (5.21-6.48 log10 cfu/ml) and aerobic mesophilic (5.03-6.19 log10 cfu/ml) at 25°C were higher than at 40C. In the inoculated 7% NaCl solution, pH and titratable acidity was 4.08-4.33 and 0.19% in 30th day at 40C. In the 15th day of fermentation, the samples in high inoculated 7% NaCl solution had a lower hardness and l*, a*, b* value and the highest rank of flavor. In this assay, the growth of pathogenic organisms was not observed in the samples.

Keywords

L. plantarum, Iranian fermented cucumbers, microbial and physicochemical characteristics

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