Approximate composition of milk from various species of mammals
1. Introduction
The identification of solutions to improve the life and health of consumers, providing safe and nutritious foods, is the major concern in Food Science. Toward that goal, preservation methods such as salting, drying, high/low temperature application, fermentation, and more recently, pulsed electric field, high pressure and radiation - alone or in combination – may be applied. The chosen method will depend on the type of raw materials, availability of the method, cost, effectiveness and degree of change it causes to the flavor and nutritional features of the food product. Fermentation, also called biopreservation, is a cheap, widely accessible method that meets today’s increasing consumer´s demand for minimally processed/preserved food products. Biopreservation with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) is indeed one of the oldest and highly efficient forms of non-thermal processing method. Cheese production is based on LAB ability to ferment sugars, especially glucose and galactose, so to produce lactic acid and aroma substances that give typical flavors and tastes to fermented products. LAB also release antimicrobial metabolites so called bacteriocins, which are considered safe and natural preservatives, with great potential to be used on their own, or synergistically with other methods in food preservation.
2. Lactic acid bacteria in dairy processing
Milk is a highly perishable food raw material, therefore, its transformation in cheese or other form of fermented dairy product, provides an ideal vehicle to preserve its valuable nutrients (Table 1), making them available throughout the year. It is known that while unprocessed milk can be stored for only a few hours at room temperatures, cheeses may reach a shelf-live up to 5 years (depending on variety).
Animal | Fat | Casein | Lactose | Albumin | Ash | Water |
% | ||||||
Cow Goat Ewe Camel Buffalo | 3.75 6.0 9.0 3.0 6.0 | 3.0 3.3 4.6 3.5 3.8 | 4.75 4.6 4.7 5.5 4.5 | 0.4 0.7 1.1 1.7 0.7 | 0.75 0.84 1.0 1.5 0.75 | 87.3 84.5 79.6 84.8 85 |
Fermentation with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) is a cheap and effective food preservation method that can be applied even in more rural/remote places, and leads to improvement in texture, flavor and nutritional value of many food products. LAB have a long and safe history of application and consumption namely in cheese processing (Aquilanti et al., 2006, Caplice & Fitzgerald, 1999, Giraffa et al., 2010, Ray, 1992; Wood, 1997; Wood & Holzapfel, 1995) thus being generally regarded as safe (GRAS). Increasing knowledge of LAB physiology, together with new developments in processing technology, is leading to their application beyond traditional starter culture application, namely in new food safety roles and direct health applications.
2.1. LAB as starter-cultures in cheese processing
Cheese-making is based on application of LAB in the form of defined or undefined starter cultures that are expected to cause a rapid acidification of milk through the production of lactic acid, with the consequent decrease in pH, thus affecting a number of aspects of the cheese manufacturing process and ultimately cheese composition and quality (Briggiler-Marco et al., 2007).
The earliest productions of cheeses were based on the spontaneous fermentation, resulting from the development of the microflora naturally present in the raw milk and its environment. The quality of the end product was a reflex of the microbial load and spectrum of the raw material. Spontaneous fermentation was later optimized through backslopping, i.e., inoculation of the raw material with a small quantity of whey from a previously performed successful fermentation, and the resulting product characteristics depended on the best-adapted strains dominance (Leroy & De Vuyest, 2004). Today, backslopping is still used to produce many artisanal raw-milk cheeses, namely those bearing the PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) status, which are considered to be an important source of LAB genetic diversity, as well as being crucial from an economic and even ecologic point of view, since production of said cheeses (usually processed on a small-scale) contributes to local employment and maintains people functioning as “guardians of local environment” in regions that otherwise would be deserted.
The starter-culture applied in this, so-called, natural fermentation, is usually a poorly-known microflora mix that although having a predominance of LAB, may also contain non-LAB microorganisms, and its microbial diversity and load is usually variable over time. In fact, studies directed to characterize traditional cheeses show that those made from raw milk harbor a diversity of LAB (Bernardeau et al., 2008) depending on geographical region, where a few may show particular interesting technological features that upon optimization may have industrial applications (Buckenhiiskes, 1993). For example, because wild strains need to withstand the competition of other microorganisms to survive in their hostile natural environment, they often produce antimicrobials substances called bacteriocins (Ayad et al., 2002), which are natural antibacterial proteins that can be incorporated directly into fermented foods as such (food–grade) or indirectly as starter culture (Bernardeau et al., 2008). Although nisin is today the only bacteriocin that reached commercial status, approved worldwide as a natural food preservative, many other bacteriocins may soon reach similar status. Recently, our work (to be published) with LAB isolates from traditional portuguese raw-milk cheeses, revealed several lactobacilli having antibacterial activity against pathogens such as
Moreover, traditional cheeses also obtain their flavor intensity also from the non-starter lactic acid bacteria (NSLAB), which are not part of the normal starter flora but develop in the product, particularly during maturation, as a secondary flora (Beresford, et al., 2001). The isolation and optimization of wild-type strains from traditional products, to be used as starter cultures in cheese processing, is indeed a highly active field of research in Food Science today.
2.2. LAB food safety and cheese technology
Cheese is made in almost every country of the world and there are more than 2000 varieties, made from milk of several mammals, processed industrially or by traditional methods (Figure 1).
However, despite the large number of varieties, the basic steps required in any cheese processing are essentially the same, and slight variations in any of these steps may result in products of different general quality (Figure 2).
Figure 1.
Top) - Brine salting of cheeses in a large-scale plant processing 20 tons of cheese a day. (Bottom) - Small-scale unit processing 50 Kg per day of a traditional PDO cheese
Figure 3.
Cheese ripening in cabinets with controlled temperature and humidity.
During coagulation, the initial step of casein hydrolysis is performed by chymosin (milk coagulant) and proteinases from starter lactic acid bacteria, starter moulds and other microorganisms. The further degradation of high molecular weight peptides produced at the initial step, is subsequently catalised to low molecular weight peptides by endopeptidases from LAB during ripening (see Fig. 4 and 5).
Primary proteolysis in cheese is defined as changes in β-, γ-, αs-caseinpeptides, and other minor proteins that are detected by PAGE (Figure 6). Primary proteolysis leads to the formation of large water-insoluble peptides and smaller water-soluble peptides (Fox, 1993, Mooney et al., 1998). Secondary proteolysis products include those peptides, proteins and amino acids soluble in the aqueous phase of cheese and are extractable as the water-soluble nitrogen (WSN) fraction. The WSN fraction is a complex mixture of large, medium, and small peptides and amino acids. These components result from the action of milk clotting enzymes, milk proteases, starter LAB and contaminating microorganisms (Rank et al., 1985).
Typical cheese pH values measured at 3–7 days after manufacture are 4.9–5.5 in most firm and hard ripened varieties, and 4.4–4.8 in fresh lactic and most soft ripened varieties (Table 2 and Figures 7 and 8).
Operations | Swiss type | Gouda | Cheddar | Feta | Cottage | |||||
Time | pH | Time | pH | Time | pH | Time | pH | Time | pH | |
Add starter | 0 | 6.60 | 0 | 6.60 | 0 | 6.60 | 0 | 6.60 | 0 | 6.60 |
Add rennet | 15 | 6.60 | 35 | 6.55 | 30 | 6.55 | 75 | 6.50 | 60 | 6.50 |
Cut | 45 | 6.55 | 70 | 6.50 | 75 | 6.50 | 115 | 6.4 | 300 | 4.80 |
Drain or dip into forms | 150 | 6.35 | 100 | 6.45 | 195 | 6.3 | 130 | NA | 360 | 5.0 |
Milling | NA | NA | NA | NA | 315 | 5.45 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Pressing | 165 | 6.35 | 130 | 390 | 5.40 | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
Demoulding | 16 h | 5.30 | 8 h | 5.40 | 10 h | 5.20 | 24 h | 4.6 | NA | NA |
Minimum pH | 1 wk | 5.20 | 1 wk | 5.20 | 1 wk | 5.10 | 1 wk | 4.4 | NA | NA |
Retail | 6 mo | 5.6 | 6 mo | 5.6 | 4 mo | 5.3 | 6 wk | 4.4 | 2–14 d | 5.2 |
During processing, the pH history of the cheese is a good indicator of the actual product safety. For example a ‘slow vat’ allows more time at high pH for undesirable bacteria to grow, while during cheese ripening, unwanted bacteria may grow due to an acidity neutralization resulting from secondary microflora growth such as moulds. For most ripened varieties the combination of a low pH and ripening time, which leads to moisture decrease in the cheese, will in general cause a gradual decline of all groups of bacteria due to increasing inhospitable conditions inside the cheese.
The pH history of a cheese and the hygienic practices applied in its manufacture are thus key factors to guarantee safe products. Thus, the isolation of autochthonous LAB intend to be used for development of specific starter cultures with improved acid production and other antimicrobial activities may be an excellent way towards reaching the goals of simultaneously obtaining safe traditional cheeses, still bearing their unique flavors.
Nowadays, western consumers still enjoy artisan cheeses thanks to their outstanding gastronomic qualities; however, in most industrialized countries the large-scale cheese processing is the most important branch of the food industry. In such cases, there is a strong need to control the fermentation process towards maximum efficiency in terms of yields and standardization of the end product. This, and the need to fulfill the safety assurance of the final product, is usually achieved by, among other improvements, adding a high dosage of pure LAB selected starter cultures, commercially available (today’s world starter culture market is more than US$1 billion), as well as by heat treating the raw milk, most commonly by pasteurization.
3. Development of new starter cultures for cheese processing
Traditional raw-milk cheeses are highly valued for their flavors, while large-scale products are often perceived by the consumer as ‘‘boring’’ (Law, 2001) – a consequence of the elimination by pasteurization, of the flora that has a key role in flavor development; and this puts the food industry under pressure to look for alternative LAB cultures capable of improving products flavor (Leroy & De Vuyest, 2004).
Today, the increased understanding of the genomics and metabolomics of food microbes opens up new perspectives for starter-cultures improvements and through genetic engineering it is now possible to express their desirable properties or suppress undesirable features (Del- cour, De Vuyst, & Shortt, 1999; Law, 2001; Mogensen, 1993).
Originally, starter cultures for the cheese industry were maintained by daily propagation, and later, they became available as frozen concentrates and dried or lyophilised preparations, produced on an industrial scale, some of them allowing direct vat inoculation (Sandine, 1996). Because the original starter cultures were mixtures of several undefined microbes, the daily propagation, eventually led to shifts of the ecosystem resulting in the disappearance of certain strains. Because some important metabolic traits in LAB are plasmid-encoded, there was a risk that they would be lost during propagation (Weerkamp et al., 1996). Lactococci are generally used as starter cultures in the production of industrial cheeses and cultured milk products. In traditional cheeses the natural starter cultures may harbor many different species and strains.
On the other hand, cheeses manufactured in a standard (large-scale) processing manner, are considered as safer because of the application of pasteurization and following the standard hygienic practices, including the HACCP. Traditional cheeses have their own specific processing methods, namely the common use of raw milk, however the hygienic procedures and HACCP approaches adapted to their specificities should be applied as well.
Mesophilic starter used for many cheese types. Used in Gouda, Edam, sour cream and lactic butter. Mesophilic starter used for many cheese types. | |
Thermophilic starter used for yogurt and many cheese types particularly hard and semi hard high-cook cheeses. | |
Probiotic adjunct culture used in cheese and yogurt. | |
Thermophilic starter for yogurt. and many cheese types, particularly hard and semi hard high-cook cheeses. | |
Used in fermented milks and high-cook cheese. | |
Thermophilic starter for fermented milks and many cheese types particularly hard and semi hard high-cook cheeses | |
Cheese ripening adjunct culture. | |
Cheese ripening adjunct culture. | |
Cheese ripening adjunct culture. | |
Mesophilic culture used for Edam, Gouda, fresh cheese, lactic butter and sour cream. | |
Used in smear surface-ripened cheeses, Camembert, Stilton and Limburger and as a cheese ripening adjunct culture. | |
Used in Gruyère and Emmental cheeses. Used in Gruyère and Emmental cheeses. |
As previously stated, LAB are only a part of the complete microflora of raw milk (Kongo et al, 2007) and this, associated to other technological methods such as pressing, allows the production of a diversity of traditional cheeses (Parguel, 2011). This raw-milk microflora represents the contamination from the environment (air, utensils, the animal skin), and the load and its diversity will thus vary with local, season and livestock type, influenced by temperature.
These microbial mixes have an interdependent activity when together in their ecosystem and therefore their physiological properties may differ when the biodiversity is disrupted. In fact, it has been shown that certain microbial associations reveal a higher protecting effect against pathogens such as listeria, than when their association diversity is disrupted, (Montel 2010) see Figure 9.
Bacteriocinogenic probiotic bacteria could be beneficial when used as starter cultures in cheese, as they may prolong the shelf-life of the products, while simultaneously providing the consumer with a healthy advantage at a low cost (Gomes et al. 1998). The presence of bacteriocins in foods is, in general, seen as safe for consumers because bacteriocins are inactivated by pancreatic or gastric enzymes (Liu et al., 2011).
3.1. EPS-producing cultures and acceleration of cheese ripening
Many LAB produce exopolysaccharides (EPS), which may provide viscosifying, stabilizing, and water-binding effects in cheeses. The growing demand for all-natural, healthy food products, foods with low fat or sugar content and low levels of additives, as well as cost factors has increased the interest of food industry to use LAB polysaccharides. Research has also shown that EPS+ LAB can enhance the functional properties of low fat cheese and that the excellent water- binding properties and moisture retention of EPS can improve the melting properties of low fat Mozzarella cheese. These properties show that EPS have wide technical potentials for development of novel and improved food products with enhanced texture, mouth-feel, taste perception and stability, representing potential sources for economic gains for the dairy industry.
EPS have also the potential to be used as surface carriers of bacteriocins or bacteriocin-producing LAB, and species such as
Finally, cheese ripening is a lengthy and costly process. Therefore, attenuated starter cultures with high autolysis are being sought towards increasing the amount of endogenous peptides, thus accelerating the cheese ageing process as well as enhancing flavour and texture. These cultures may be obtained via application of several techniques such as pulsed electric field, heat treatment, freeze–thawing and lysozyme treatment (Briggs, 2003).
Thus, the cheese industry in looking for new types of LAB starter-cultures bearing several properties: – cultures that increase microbial safety or offer one or more organoleptic, technological, nutritional (enzymes, or polyunsaturated fatty acids - PUFAs) or health advantages such as probiotic properties, starter cultures with increased resistance to bacteriophage, (recall that high product loss, especially in cheese manufacturing, is often associated with bacteriophages (Parente and Cogan, 2004), cultures that produce EPS and cultures that accelerate cheese ripening.
3.2. Methods used to characterize LAB for starter cultures development
To characterize new LAB isolates, phenotypic methods relying on physiological or bio-chemical criteria have been widely applied (Montel, Talon, Fournaud, & Champomier, 1991, Kongo et al., 2007). These phenotypic profiling methods are very important - especially related to finding the technological features, such as the acidification, proteolytic and lipolytic activity, of a new isolate (see Tables 3 and 4, and Figure 11) and have the advantage of requiring less sophisticated equipment. In most of the cases however, these tests are insufficient for accurate species identification due to the great number of different LAB species with similar phenotypic characteristics (Temmerman et al. 2004).
Characteristics | ||||||
CO2 from glucose | +/- | - | - | + | - | - |
Growth at 10 ºC | +/- | + | + | + | +/- | - |
Growth at 45 ºC | +/- | + | - | - | +/ | +/- |
Growth at 6.5% NaCl | +/- | + | - | +/- | +/ | - |
Growth at 18% NaCl | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Growth at pH 4.4. | +/- | + | +/- | +/- | + | - |
Growth at pH 9.6 | - | + | - | - | - | - |
Type of lactic acid | D, L, DL | L | L | D | L, DL | L |
Molecular biology (genotypic) methods (Figure 12) on the other hand - largely DNA-based techniques - offer much greater discriminatory power, all the way to differentiation of individual strains (Aymerich et al., 2006, Cocolin et al., 2004, Furet et al., 2004, Prabhakar et al., 2011). Thus, a combination of both phenotypic and genotypic identification techniques (so called polyphasic approach) is preferred (Temmerman et al., 2004, Aquilanti et al., 2006).
Finally, it should be mentioned that there are concerns today that commensal bacterial populations from food and the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of humans and animals, such as LAB, could act as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes, and therefore, be transferred to possibly pathogenic bacterial species, complicating the treatment of a disease or infection and leading to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (Ammor et al., 2007). Thus, before using new isolates as starter cultures or as probiotics, the antibiotic resistance must be addressed.
The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) proposed a system for a pre-market safety assessment of selected groups of microorganisms, leading to granting a “Qualified Presumption of Safety (QPS)”. Therefore, EFSA proposed that a safety assessment of a defined taxonomic group, such as a genus or group of related species could be made based on establishing identity, body of knowledge, possible pathogenicity and end use (European Commission 2007). The 33
Lb acidophilus Lb amylolyticus Lb amylovorus Lb alimentarius Lb aviaries Lb brevis Lb bucheneri Lb casei Lb crispatus Lb curvatus Lb delbrueckii | Lb farciminis Lb fermentum Lb gallinarum Lb gasseri Lb heveticus Lb hilgardii Lb johnsonii Lb kefiranofaciens Lb kefiri Lb mucosae Lb panis | Lb paracasei Lb paraplantarum Lb pentosus Lb plantarum Lb pontis Lb reuteri Lb rhamnosus Lb sakei Lb salivarius Lb sanfranciscensis Lb zeae |
Lactobacilli are generally susceptible to antibiotics inhibiting the synthesis of proteins, such as chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin and tetracycline, and more resistant to aminoglycosides (neomycin, kanamycin, streptomycin and gentamicin. While some species show a high level of resistance to glycopeptides (vancomycin and teicoplanin), susceptibility to bacitracin will vary greatly (Ammor et al, 2007; Coppola et al., 2005).
Lactobacil-lus obligate homofer-mentative | Lactobacil-lus hetero-fermenta-tive | Lactobacil-lus plantarum | Enterococ-cus spp | Pediococ-cus pp | Leuco-nostoc | Lactococ-cus lactis | Streptoco-ccus thermo-philus | |
Ampicillin Vancomycin Gentamycin Kanamycin Streptomycin Neomycin Erythromycin Clindamicin Tetracycline Chloranphenicol Trimethoprim | 4 4 8 16 16 16 4 4 8 4 8 | 4 IR 8 16 16 16 4 4 8 4 8 | 4 IR 64 64 64 32 4 4 32 8 8 | 8 8 512 1024 1024 1024 4 4 16 8 8 | 4 IR 4 4 4 8 4 4 4 4 8 | 4 IR 4 8 8 8 4 4 4 4 8 | 4 4 8 8 16 8 4 4 4 8 n.r | 4 4 8 8 16 8 4 4 4 8 n.r |
4. Concluding remarks
LAB are important in cheese processing because (i) they increase food safety through the release of lactic acid and bacteriocins, (ii) produce aromas and flavor and accelerate the maturation process of cheese via their proteolytic and lipolytic activities, bringing economic advantages to the industry, (iii) bring about desirable food textures via release of polysaccharides that increase the viscosity and firmness, and reduce susceptibility to syneresis, (iv) they may be used to deliver polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and vitamins, leading to dairy products with increased nutritional value, (v) specific probiotic strains contribute to liberation of health-enhancing bioactive peptides improving absorption in the intestinal tract, stimulating the immune system, exerting antihypertensive, antithrombotic effects, or functioning as carriers for minerals.
Novel insights arising from use of Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Bioengeneering approaches will offer perspectives for the application of a new generation of starter cultures for cheese-making, having enhanced functional features and offering several health, marketing, and technological advantages, contributing to the development of small and medium sized enterprises on the one hand, and product diversification of large companies on the other.
However, there are still many developments to be achieved towards fully realizing the many foreseen potential of LAB or their products. For example extraction and purification of bacteriocins is still difficult as they form micelles or clumps with the nitrogen sources already in the growth medium. On the other hand while genetic engineering may offer many solutions related to optimal use of LAB, they may not be easily allowed by food legislation.
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