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Leveraging The Covid-19 Fermentation Trend To Enhance Nutrition And Food Safety Extension Efforts, Thais M. Ramos, Hanna Louvau, Heesun Kim, Maria L. Marco, Erin Dicaprio

The Journal of Extension

Our program aimed to increase knowledge related to fermented foods. Over 400 stakeholders registered for a webinar series that focused on defining fermented foods, health benefits of fermenting foods, and the safety of fermented foods. Participants indicated increases in knowledge and overall satisfaction with the content of the fermentation curriculum. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the program outcomes are discussed.

Investigating Quality Attributes And Wine Production Methods Of Arkansas-Grown Grapes, Amanda Fleming

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Grapevines (Vitis species) are grown worldwide to produce table grapes, juice grapes, dried grapes, and wine with the United States as one of the world’s largest wine and grape producers. Though not a large contributor to the U.S. grape and wine industry, Arkansas’ industry plays an important role in the state’s agritourism and economy. Most grapes grown in Arkansas’ warm climate include native species, such as muscadines (V. rotundifolia) and hybrids (crosses of Vitis species). Two important hybrid red wine grapes grown in Arkansas are Chambourcin, grown commercially for its positive viticulture and enological quality, and Enchantment, a newer cultivar …

Evaluating The Efficacy Of Germination And Fermentation In Producing Biologically Active Peptides From Pulses, Ashley Newton

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Recently, there has been a profound increase in demand of plant-based proteins, especially pulse proteins. However, pulses contain high concentrations of antinutritional factors that hinder the digestibility of proteins. Processing techniques such as enzymatic hydrolysis, microbial fermentation, and physical processing modulate nutritional quality and functionality of pulses. Processing also releases peptides from parent proteins that exhibit health-beneficial bioactivity against various disease risk factors. In this study, germination, gastrointestinal digestion, and microbial fermentation were evaluated to determine the nutritional quality and release of bioactive peptides during and after processing.

Germination of chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) modulated the protein profile, and …

Effects Of Lactic Acid Bacteria Ferment Ated Pollenson The Inhibition Of A-Glucosidase, Luo Yue-Peng, Yang Yuan-Fan, Yu Yang-Jun, He Jun-Zhu, Wu Ling

Food and Machinery

Objective：This study focus on improving the a-glucosi-dase inhibition rate of Camellia pollens.Methods：Usinga-gluco-sida se inhibition rate as the index， the response surface method-ology was used to optimize the effects of lactic acid bacteria in ocu-lation amount， fermentation temperature and fermentation timeon the results of Camellia pollens fermentation.Results：It wasfound that the number of lactic acid bacteria inoculated had thegreatest effect on α- glucosidase inhibition， followed by ferment a-tion temperature.The optimized fermentation conditions of Ca-melli a pollens were 0.9%lactic acid bacteria inoculation at 37℃for 3 days.Under the control of the optimized conditions， the in-hi bition rate of αglucosidase …

Research Progress On The Influence Of Black Tea Fermentation Conditions On The Tea Pigment Formation, Cui Hong-Chun, Zhang Jian-Yong, Zhao Yun, Huang Hai-Tao, Ao Cun, Li Hong-Li, Shi Da-Liang

Food and Machinery

The research progress of the influence of fermentation temperature, fermentation humidity, fermentation time and exogenous additives on the formation of black tea pigment were reviewed. The future research and development trend of black tea pigment formation was prospected.

Prebiotics Enhance Persistence Of Fermented-Food Associated Bacteria In In Vitro Cultivated Fecal Microbial Communities, Chloe M. Christensen, Car Reen Kok, Jennifer Auchtung, Robert Hutkins

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

It is well established that the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota plays a major role in human health. Dietary interventions, and consumption of fermented foods that contain live microbes, in particular, are among the approaches being investigated to modulate the GI microbiota and improve health. However, the persistence of fermented food-associated bacteria (FAB) within the GI tract is typically limited by host factors that limit colonization and competition with autochthonous microbes. In this research, we examined if the addition of prebiotics, dietary substrates that are selectively metabolized by microbes to improve health, would enhance the persistence of FAB. We evaluated the persistence …

The Rapid Enumeration Of A Mixed Culture Of S. Cerevisiae & L. Plantarum In Beer Using Image-Based Cytometry, Kevin M. Kennedy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mixed cultures are prevalent in the food industry. From sour beer to sourdough bread, mix culture popularity is growing. A number of microbiological mixtures are used in these unique fermenting processes to create distinctive flavor profiles of consumers’ favorite foods. Although mixed cultures seem ubiquitous, they are often not well enumerated. The aim of this thesis was to create a novel rapid image-based cytometry method to enumerate mixed cultures in beer. Imaged-based cytometry can be used to rapidly enumerate mixed microbial cultures, as opposed to traditional plate counting methods that can take days to grow and count. A novel method …

Research Progress On Industrial Auxiliary Materials Fermentation Of Cigar Tobacco Leaf, Ye Hui-Yuan, Ding Song-Shuang, Duan Wang-Jun, Huang Ming-Yue, Shi Xiang-Dong

Food and Machinery

This paper reviews the exogenous additives such as microorganisms, enzymes and excipients currently applied to cigar tobacco leaf fermentation and their research and application results to improve the quality of tobacco leaves, and prospects the research direction of cigar tobacco industrial excipient fermentation.

Effects Of Different Storage Conditions On The Quality Of Sweet Potato Leaf Pickles, Liu Xi-Ming, He Jia, Rui Peng

Food and Machinery

Objective:This study aimed to explore the preservation conditions and quality changes of sweet potato leaf sauerkraut fermented by lactic acid bacteria.Methods:After vacuum packaging, the pH value, lactic acid content, nitrite content, colony number, color difference and sensory score of sweet potato leaves were compared under four different kinds of storage conditions, including 25 ℃ at room temperature, 4 ℃ at low temperature, 4 ℃ after pasteurization at 80 ℃-15 min, and 4 ℃ after pasteurization at 85 ℃-10 min.Results:When stored at 25 ℃, the luminance decreased the fastest, and the color became darker at 60 …

Study On Visual Judgment Method Of Fermentation Degree In Industrialized Bread Production Based On Bp Neural Network, Zhao Chun, Chen Xue-Yong, Wu Shao-Shuang, Pang Jie

Food and Machinery

Objective:A BP neural network model was established to accurately determine the maturity of dough fermentation.Methods:Used machine vision technology to collect and process the pictures of bread fermentation process, obtained the quantitative information of the pictures, and a prediction model was established for bread fermentation degree based on BP neural network. Taking the time, area, instantaneous velocity, expansion rate, gray value energy, gray value relationship, gray value uniformity and gray value contrast as the input neurons, the regression model of relevant parameters was established.Results:The correlation between the above characteristic parameters and the fermentation process of bread …

The Effects Of Cofermentation Of Cider And Apple Pomace On Cider Attributes, Abigail D. Affonso

Master's Theses

Phenolics are critical to the sensory attributes and health benefits of hard cider due to their contribution to the flavor, mouthfeel, and antioxidant activity. With the increase in demand for cider, the use of dessert apple varieties has become more common leaving ciders lacking in phenolics. However, a promising method to increase their phenolic content is through maceration with apple pomace. This study evaluated the effect maceration with apple pomace during cider fermentation on the extraction of phenolic compounds, as well as its effect on the sensory properties of the final product. For this study, ciders were fermented with 0% …

Alternative Sweeteners For Cultivating Water Kefir Grains, Morgan Barnes

Honors Theses

Water kefir is traditionally fermented using dark brown sugar due to a fast growth rate, however the use of other sweeteners, such as honey, is relatively unexplored. This paper describes the investigation of using alternative mediums made with honey, agave nectar, Truvia/stevia, and monk fruit sweetener, each supplemented with dark brown sugar on the biomass growth of water kefir grains (WKGs). Growth in these alternative mediums was compared to WKG growth in the standard medium prepared using only dark brown sugar. Two trials were conducted, each with three replicates for each experimental medium as well as three replicates of dark …