Protective cultures, antimicrobial metabolites and bacteriophages for food and beverage biopreservation

• Other Authors: Lacroix, Christophe
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, ©2011.
• Series: Woodhead Publishing in food science, technology, and nutrition ; no. 201.
• Subjects: Food > Preservation.; Food industry and trade.; Anti-infective agents.; Food > Microbiology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 0857090526; 9780857090522; 1845696697; 9781845696696; 1613443692; 9781613443699
• ISSN: 2042-8057 ;
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 489 pages) : illustrations.

Consumers favour foods with fewer synthetic additives, but products must also be safe to eat and have a sufficiently long shelf-life. Biopreservation, the use of a product's natural microflora and its antibacterial products for protection against pathogens and spoilage, is a method of growing i...