Abstract:
The present invention is related to a method for producing a phospholipase by processing an expressed fungal peptide and to certain specified phospholipases. Furthermore the invention provides a method for producing cheese with a phospholipase.
Abstract:
A farm animal product comprising probiotic Enterococcus bacteria and the use of this product to reduce the number of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells in farm animals such as cattle.
Abstract:
A new type of cryoprotective agents that are useful for retaining the viability and metabolic activity of frozen or freeze-dried microbial cultures, is disclosed. The cryoprotective agent comprises compounds involved in biosynthesis of nucleic acids. Methods for the preparation as well as the uses of such cultures are given. Such cultures are useful as starter cultures in the manufacturing of food and feed products. Starter cultures of the invention include culture of lactic acid bacteria, e.g. Lactococcus species as well as other species.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for producing cheese from cows milk wherein milk or a fraction of milk is treated with a phospholipase and heat treated during or after phospholipase treatment, and the treated milk or milk fraction is used for producing cheese. The methods results in a decreased oiling off of the cheese when heated and/or in an improved cheese yield.
Abstract:
Use of a lactic acid bacterium comprising a cell wall proteinase of around 200 kDa to prepare peptides with anti-hypertensive properties and a method for obtaining such a lactic acid bacterium.
Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a process of improving the total yield of curcuminoids from curcuminoid-containing material. More specifically, there is provided a process wherein a second residue, previously considered a waste resulting from a crystallisation step of a curcuminoid-containing phase, is made useful by improving the colouring properties of this second residue by extraction with hexane and/or methanol at ambient temperature. The pronullnullcess improves the total yield of curcuminoids by 30-40%.
Abstract:
Methods of isolating nonsense suppressor-encoding lactic acid bacteria, cultures and compositions of lactic acid bacteria and plasmids comprising a gene coding for a nonsense suppressor, and a method of confining extrachromosomal replicons capable of replicating in lactic acid bacteria to lactic acid bacteria.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to microbial starter cultures. More specifically, a method for preparing a microbial culture such as a lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture wherein at least one microbial strain such as a lactic acid bacteria and at least one hemoprotein is inoculated in a culture medium.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition for producing a fermented milk product comprising (i) at least one Streptococcus thermophilus (St) strain, wherein the St strain is galactose-fermenting, wherein the strain carries a mutation in the DNA sequence of the gick gene encoding a glucokinase protein, wherein the mutation inactivates the glucokinase protein or has a negative effect on expression of the gene, and (ii) at least one Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (Lb) strain, wherein the Lb strain is lactose-deficient and capable of metabolizing a non-lactose carbohydrate.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of inhibiting isomerization of a reducing saccharide in an aqueous solution containing said reducing saccharide upon thermal treatment of said aqueous saccharide solution by acidifying the aqueous saccharide solution prior to its thermal treatment, and the use of the thermally treated aqueous solution containing said reducing saccharide for producing a biological product.