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JOURNAL OF DAIRY RESEARCH
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 83-90Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S002202999900401X
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We have developed a method to quantify the resistance to freezing and frozen storage of lactic acid starters. based on measuring the time necessary to reach the maximum acidification rate in milk (tm) using the Cinac system. Depending on the operating conditions, tm increased during the freezing step and storage. The loss of acidification activity during freezing was quantified by the difference (Delta tm) between the tm values of the concentrated cell suspension before and after freezing. During storage at - 20 degrees C, linear relationships between tm and the storage time were established. Their slope, k, allowed the quantitation of the decrease in acidification activity during 9-14 weeks of frozen storage. The method was applied to determine tl-le resistance to freezing and frozen storage of four strains of lactic acid bacteria and to quantify the cryoprotective effect of glycerol.
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