Microbial population dynamics during traditional production of Mabisi, a spontaneous fermented milk product from Zambia: a field trial.

ABSTRACT: Mabisi is a fermented milk product, traditionally produced in a calabash by uncontrolled fermentation. Due to high costs and a reduced availability of calabashes, nowadays plastic containers are also used for Mabisi production. However, the effect of this change in production practice on the properties of the product has not been documented. Therefore, we aimed at determining the effect of fermentation vessels and types of back-slopping on acidification and microbial communities during fermentation. A series of fifteen experiments using two types of fermentation vessels (plastic buckets and calabashes) in combination with different types of back-slopping (no back-slopping, passive back-slopping, and active back-slopping) were set up at a field site in rural Zambia. In each of the fifteen f

SUBMITTER: Groenenboom AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7667141 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature