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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION
Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 92-98Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/09637486.2015.1136905
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Death kinetics; Lactobacillus reuteri; modeling; prebiotics
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [PON-01-0851]
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Eaten foodstuffs are usually fortified with prebiotic ingredients, such as inulin and oligofructose (FOS). The main goal of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of inulin and FOS with either suboptimal pH or storage temperature on the viability of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 20016. Data were modeled through Weibull equation for the evaluation of the microbiological shelf life and the survival time. Prebiotics enhanced the microbiological shelf life and enhanced the survival time of the target bacterium. The use of the factorial ANOVA highlighted that inulin and FOS exerted a different effect as a function of pH and temperature. Inulin prolonged survival time under acidic conditions, while the effect of glucose+FOS was significant at pH 8. Finally, temperature could act by increasing or decreasing the effect of prebiotics, as they could exert a protective effect at 30 degrees C but not at 44 degrees C. As the main output of this research, we could suggest that the effect of prebiotics on L. reuteri could be significantly affected by pH and temperature, thus pinpointing that the design of a symbiotic food should also rely on these factors.
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