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  2. List of microorganisms used in food and beverage preparation

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    cheese [9] Brachybacterium alimentarium: bacterium: cheese [9] nol Brachybacterium tyrofermentans: bacterium: cheese [9] Brachybacterium tyrofermentans: bacterium: cheese [9] Brevibacterium aurantiacum: bacterium: cheese [2] Brevibacterium casei: bacterium: cheese (smear-ripened) [2] [4] Brevibacterium linens: bacterium

  3. Microbial food cultures - Wikipedia

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    Microbial food cultures are live bacteria, yeasts or moulds used in food production. Microbial food cultures carry out the fermentation process in foodstuffs. Used by humans since the Neolithic period (around 10 000 years BC) [1] fermentation helps to preserve perishable foods and to improve their nutritional and organoleptic qualities (in this case, taste, sight, smell, touch).

  4. Food microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Food microbiology is the study of the microorganisms that inhabit, create, or contaminate food.This includes the study of microorganisms causing food spoilage; pathogens that may cause disease (especially if food is improperly cooked or stored); microbes used to produce fermented foods such as cheese, yogurt, bread, beer, and wine; and microbes with other useful roles, such as producing ...

  5. List of fermented foods - Wikipedia

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    Tibicos water crystals made with Muscovado. This is a list of fermented foods, which are foods produced or preserved by the action of microorganisms.In this context, fermentation typically refers to the fermentation of sugar to alcohol using yeast, but other fermentation processes involve the use of bacteria such as lactobacillus, including the making of foods such as yogurt and sauerkraut.

  6. Lactobacillus helveticus - Wikipedia

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    Lactobacillus helveticus is a lactic-acid producing, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus.It is most commonly used in the production of American Swiss cheese and Emmental cheese, but is also sometimes used in making other styles of cheese, such as Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano, provolone, and mozzarella.

  7. Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus - Wikipedia

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    His results were questioned after a 1920 study showed that the bacterium could not survive in the human intestines, but the idea nevertheless started the research into actually useful probiotics. [14] Lactobacillus bulgaricus is a constituent in VSL#3. In 2012 it was declared India's national microbe. [15] [16]

  8. Probiotic - Wikipedia

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    Only limited, low-quality evidence exists to indicate that probiotics are helpful for treating people with milk allergy. [91] A 2015 review showed low-quality evidence that probiotics given directly to infants with eczema, or in infants whose mothers used probiotics during the last trimester of pregnancy and breastfeeding, had lower risk of eczema.

  9. Lactococcus lactis - Wikipedia

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    Lactococcus lactis is a gram-positive bacterium used extensively in the production of buttermilk and cheese, [1] but has also become famous as the first genetically modified organism to be used alive for the treatment of human disease. [2]