Cited by 67Probiotics and Fermented FoodsEssential Oils and Antimicrobial ActivityFermentation and Sensory Analysis

Selection of Algerian lactic acid bacteria for use as antifungal bioprotective cultures and application in dairy and bakery products

Open access
Ouiddir, Massinissa, Bettache, Guessas, Leyva Salas, Marcia, Pawtowski, Audrey, Donot, Christelle, Brahimi, Samira, Mabrouk, Kihel, Coton, Emmanuel +1 more·2019·Food Microbiology

Abstract

In the context of a demand for "preservative-free" food products, biopreservation appears as a promising alternative to either replace or reduce the use of chemical preservatives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antifungal activity of a collection of lactic acid bacteria (n = 194), and then to evaluate the applicability and efficacy of selected ones used as bioprotective cultures against mold spoilers in dairy and bakery products. First, lactic acid bacteria were isolated from various Algerian raw milk samples and Amoredj, a traditional fermented product. Secondly, in vitro screening tests against Mucor racemosus UBOCC-A-109155, Penicillium commune UBOCC-A-116003, Yarrowia lipolytica UBOCC-A-216006, Aspergillus tubingensis AN, Aspergillus flavus T5 and Paecilomyces formosus AT allowed for the selection of 3 active strains, namely Lactobacillus plantarum CH1, Lactobacillus paracasei B20 and Leuconostoc mesenteroides L1. In situ tests were then performed to validate their activity in actual products (sour cream and sourdough bread) challenged with fungal spoilers. These tests showed that antifungal LAB could slow the fungal target growth and could be candidates of interest for industrial applications. Finally, organic acids and various antifungal compounds produced in sour cream and sourdough bread by the selected LAB, and thus potentially supporting the observed antifungal activity, were identified and quantified by HPLC and LC-QTOF.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.fm.2019.01.020

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Antibacterial compounds produced by LAB include various organic acids, such as lactic acid, acetic acid, formic acid, and propionic acid, as well as diacetyl, acetoin, hydrogen peroxide, reuterin, and bacteriocins.

    “Antibacterial compounds produced by LAB include various organic acids, such as lactic acid, acetic acid, formic acid, and propionic acid, as well as such other compounds as diacetyl, acetoin, hydrogen peroxide, reuterin, and bacteriocins [133,134,135,136,137,138,139].”

    From Lactic Acid Bacteria in Raw-Milk Cheeses: From Starter Cultures to Probiotic Functions (2022) · cites this paper as [139]

    The Metabolite quantification section reports that the selected LAB produced lactic and acetic acids, and the Conclusion discusses reuterin and diacetyl as compounds produced by LAB. The paper addresses antifungal activity, however, not the claimed antibacterial activity; the cited passages also do not support the full list, including formic acid, acetoin, hydrogen peroxide, and bacteriocins. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • In addition to major economic losses associated with spoilage, some fungi pose a threat to food safety due to their ability to produce mycotoxins.

    “In addition to the major economic losses associated with spoilage, some fungi pose a threat to food safety due to their ability to produce mycotoxins [139,148,151,152,153,154,155].”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [35]35. Pohl, C. H., Kock J. L. F., Thibane, V.S., 2011. Antifgunal free fatty acids: A Review, In Méndez-Vilas A, editor. (ed), Science against microbial pathogens: communicating current research and technological advances. Formatex Research Centre, Badajoz, Spain. 61-71.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Ouiddir, M., Bettache, G., Leyva Salas, M., Pawtowski, A., Donot, C., Brahimi, S., Mabrouk, K., Coton, E., & Mounier, J.
Affiliations
  • Université Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella (DZ)
  • Université de Bretagne Occidentale (FR)
Corresponding author
Mounier, Jérôme
Venue
Food Microbiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-09
Volume
82
Pages
160-170
ISSN
0740-0020 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2917351417
Cited by
67
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
FWCI
5.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Food Microbiology (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
French and Algerian Ministries of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
Keywords
lactic acid bacteria, biopreservation, antifungal activity, mold spoilage, dairy products, bakery products, sour cream, sourdough bread, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus paracasei, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, organic acids, antifungal agents, raw milk
MeSH terms
Fermented Foods, Animals, Antibiosis, Antifungal Agents, Bread, Dairy Products, Food Microbiology, Food Preservatives, Fungi, Milk, Lactobacillales

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review