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Junghyun Park1, Sojeong Heo1, Gawon Lee1
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, 02748 Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Baechu-kimchi is a traditional Korean dish of fermented vegetables, in which kimchi cabbage is the major ingredient. Seafood is added to baechu-kimchi in coastal areas, giving this dish regional diversity. However, little is known about how the addition of seafood affects the bacterial diversity of kimchi. Therefore, in this study, the bacterial diversity of five varieties of baechu-kimchi with seafood and one variety of baechu-kimchi without seafood was analyzed using culture-independent techniques. In 81.7% of all kimchi analyzed, the predominant species were members of the phylum Firmicutes and the lactic acid bacteria, Latilactobacillus sakei, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus inopinatus, and Weissella koreensis. These organisms were similar to those identified in baechu-kimchi without the addition of seafood, which was used as a control group, and bacterial community of previously reported kimchi. Therefore, the results of this study confirmed that the addition of seafood did not significantly affect the bacterial community in baechu-kimchi.
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