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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.2.08</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>The Effects of Fermentation Process on the Chemical Composition and Biological Activity of Spider Flower
(Gynandropsis gynandra)</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Muhialdin</surname>
                        <given-names>B.J</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Sukor</surname>
                        <given-names>R</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ismail</surname>
                        <given-names>N</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ahmad</surname>
                        <given-names>S.W</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Che Me</surname>
                        <given-names>N</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Meor Hussin</surname>
                        <given-names>A.S</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>497</fpage>
            <lpage>504</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/the-effects-of-fermentation-process-on-the-chemical-compositionand-biological-activity-of-spider-flower-gynandropsis-gynandra/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Spider flower (Gynandropsis gynandra), also known as “Maman” that is traditionally
fermented and consumed as pickles in Malaysia. In this study, the chemical composition,
microbiological content and biological activities of the fresh and fermented Maman leaves and
stem were evaluated. Approximate analysis was carried out by using AOAC standard methods,
microbial content was determined by using total plate count, antioxidant activity was evaluated
DPPH (%) and ferric reducing power. The antimicrobial activity evaluated by 96 well microtiter
plates against Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC14028, Escherichia coli ATCC12229 and
Staphylococcus aureus ATCC6538. The results demonstrated reduction in the protein, fiber, and
carbohydrate contents of Maman sample after fermentation in both leaves and stem, while the
content of ash was increased. Fermented Maman contained significantly high (p&lt;0.05) number
of anaerobic bacterial count which is 5.5600 log CFU/mL for the stem and 5.4633 log CFU/mL
for the leaves. The aerobic bacterial count was reduced significantly after the fermentation by
approximately two logs. The antioxidant activity, phenolic compounds, and flavonoids content
of fresh Maman was slightly higher than the fermented samples. The fermented Maman samples
demonstrated 90% growth inhibition towards selected pathogens, while fresh samples showed
less than 50% bacterial growth inhibition. This indicates that natural fermentation process
improved the nutrient content and the biological activity of Maman.
		</p>
		</abstract>
		<kwd-group>
        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Fermented Mamamn</kwd>
        <kwd>Physicochemical</kwd>
			<kwd>Antioxidant</kwd>
			<kwd>Microbial activity</kwd>
			<kwd>Malaysian fermented foods</kwd>
         </kwd-group>
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