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FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 1605-1610Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2007.03.001
Keywords
fructan; inulin; Lactobacillus paracasei; Streptococcus thermophilus; synbiotic; cheese
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The influence of the addition of Lactobacillus paracasei and Streptococcus thermophilus on the fructan content at the beginning and at the end of storage at 4 +/- 1 degrees C of a potentially synbiotic fresh cream cheese manufactured with inulin was investigated. Three cheese-making trials were prepared. all supplemented with a lactic culture of S. thermophilus (T1, T2 and T3). L. paracasei subsp. paracasei was added in T1 and T2. Inulin was added in T2 and the fructan content was measured after 1 and 21 days of storage. Samples of T2 possessed similar mean concentrations of fructans after 1 and 21 days of storage, 7.32% and 7.27%, respectively, and no significant difference was observed. These results indicated that the metabolism of starter and probiotic bacteria did not degrade the fructans present in those cheeses. Additionally. synbiotic cheeses possessed a fructan content higher than 7g per 100 g, sufficient to confer prebiotic potential during the entire storage period of these products. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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