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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Kombucha and Water Kefir Grains Microbiomes' Symbiotic Contribution to Postbiotics Enhancement.

Marina Pihurov, Bogdan Păcularu-Burada, Mihaela Cotârleț, Leontina Grigore-Gurgu, Daniela Borda, Nicoleta Stănciuc, Maciej Kluz, Gabriela Elena Bahrim

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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8 authors.

Marina PihurovFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1581-7569
Bogdan Păcularu-BuradaFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-0230-2654
Mihaela CotârlețFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.
Leontina Grigore-GurguFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.
Daniela BordaFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-5354-0196
Nicoleta StănciucFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.
Maciej KluzDepartment of Bioenergetics and Food Analysis and Microbiology, University of Rzeszow, 35601 Rzeszow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1627-6186
Gabriela Elena BahrimFaculty of Food Science and Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Domnească Street No. 111, 800201 Galați, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8210-1793

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Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education PCE 159/2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wild artisanal cultures, such as a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts (SCOBY) and water kefir grains (WKG), represent a complex microorganism consortia that is composed of yeasts and lactic and acetic acid bacteria, with large strains of diversity and abundance. The fermented products (FPs) obtained by the microbiome's contribution can be included in functional products due to their meta-biotics (pre-, pro-, post-, and paraprobiotics) as a result of complex and synergistic associations as well as due to the metabolic functionality. In this study, consortia of both SCOBY and WKG were involved in the co-fermentation of a newly formulated substrate that was further analysed, aiming at increasing the postbiotic composition of the FPs. Plackett-Burman (PBD) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) techniques were employed for the experimental designs to select and optimise several parameters that have an influence on the lyophilised starter cultures of SCOBY and WKG activity as a multiple inoculum. Tea concentration (1-3%), sugar concentration (5-10%), raisins concentration (3-6%), SCOBY lyophilised culture concentration (0.2-0.5%), WKG lyophilised culture concentration (0.2-0.5%), and fermentation time (5-7 days) were considered the independent variables for mathematical analysis and fermentation conditions' optimisation. Antimicrobial activity against

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co-fermentationdesign of experimentspostbioticsSCOBY membraneswater kefir grains

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