Bacterial microbiota associated with raw plant-based meat analogue products and their influences on selective enrichment for Escherichia coli O157:H7.

ABSTRACT: Towards fostering a more sustainable food production system in face of the climate change challenge, alternative protein meat-substitute products that are plant-based and free of animal by-products have been gaining attractions from both food manufacturers and consumers. With these so-called plant-based meat analogues (PBMAs) becoming increasingly available at supermarkets, there is very little known about their microbial properties. In this short report, we characterized the bacterial composition of raw plant-based ground meat imitation retail products using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Despite the observed bacterial community dissimilarity between sample brands, a total of 18 shared genera (dominated by Bacilli and Gammaproteobacteria classes) were identified as the core constituen

SUBMITTER: Capitani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11664062 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature