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Soybean peptides promote yoghurt fermentation and quality
Yue Hu1, You Li2,3, Xinqi Liu4,5
1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.
Objectives:
This research paper was to investigate the influence of soybean peptides addition on viable count of lactic acid bacteria, physicochemical parameters, flavor, and sensory evaluation of yoghurt.
Results:
The number of fermenting strains (Streptococcus thermophilus + Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus) cells in yoghurt (stored at 4 °C for 19 days) added with 0.2% (w/v) of soybean peptides (808.34 Da) reached 1.4 times higher bacterial number than in the control group. A total of 34 volatile substances were detected in this study, while there were 22 volatiles occurred in the control group yoghurt, 30 volatiles were detected in yoghurt added with 0.2% soybean peptides. There was no significant difference in sensory evaluation (p > 0.05) between the yoghurt with and without soybean peptides.
Conclusions:
In our study, the addition of soybean peptides (0.2%) can be effective both in maintaining the viable bacterial count and yoghurt quality.
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