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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 231, Issue -, Pages 33-41Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2016.04.029
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Fungal starter culture; Dry-cured meat; Penicillium salamii; Penicillium nalgiovense; Proteolysis; Lipolysis; Seasoning; Sausages
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, MIUR [PON01_01409]
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Traditional sausages are often considered of superior quality to sausages inoculated with commercial starter cultures and this is partially due to the action of the typical house microflora. Penicillium nalgiovense is the species commonly used as starter culture for dry-cured meat production. Recently a new species, Penicillium salamii, was described as typical colonizer during salami seasoning. In order to understand its contribution to the seasoning process, two different experiments on curing of fresh pork sausages were conducted using P. salamii ITEM 15302 in comparison with P. nalgiovense ITEM 15292 at small and industrial scale, and the dry-cured sausages were subjected to sensory analyses. Additionally, proteolytic and lipolytic in vitro assays were performed on both strains. P. salamii ITEM 15302 proved to be a fast growing mould on dry-cured sausage casings, well adapted to the seasoning process, with high lipolytic and proteolytic enzymatic activity that confers typical sensory characteristics to meat products. Therefore, P. salamii ITEM 15302 was shown to be a good candidate as new starter for meat industry. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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