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DETECTION AND INCIDENCE OF Geotrichum candidum IN FROZEN BLANCHED VEGETABLES
Author(s) -
SPLITTSTOESSER D. F.,
BOWERS J.,
KERSCHNER L.,
WILKISON M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1980.tb04089.x
Subject(s) - geotrichum , blanching , steeping , food science , biology , chemistry
Trials in which frozen vegetables had been inoculated with known concentrations of Geotrichum filaments showed that two steeping and washing procedures permitted recoveries of over 70%. Application of one method to frozen blanched vegetables processed in 24 factories revealed 16% of the packages to contain Georrichum with an average count of 170 filaments per 500g in the Geotrichum‐positive samples. There was little correlation between aerobic plate counts and the incidence of the mold. In‐plant studies revealed that most of the Geotrichum filaments on pre‐blanch samples of green beans were removed by blanching and hydro‐cooling.