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Improvement of Carob Pods as Feed by Solid‐substrate Fermentation
Author(s) -
KOKKE R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1977.tb00755.x
Subject(s) - rhizopus oligosporus , fermentation , food science , mycelium , chemistry , monascus , ceratonia siliqua , substrate (aquarium) , inoculation , rhizopus , salt (chemistry) , ammonium , botany , biology , horticulture , organic chemistry , ecology
Chopped carob pods were autoclaved in an ammonium salt solution. The solution was absorbed by the pods during autoclaving. The material was inoculated with either Rhizopus oligosporus or Monascus ruber and incubated for 3 d at 30 °C. The growing mycelium penetrated the particles to form a cake‐like structure containing ca. 7% protein. The fermentation product contained 73–83% of the original carob sugars, whereas the amount of tannins was considerably lower than in the pods.